<b>Review: Gone in 60 Seconds</b>
Barry Streek With 24,3-million hectares under its control – about 20% of the surface area of South Africa – the state is far and away the country’s biggest landowner. Even then, that figure excludes vast tracts of state-owned land, such as land owned by parastatals like Transnet and the 2,9- million hectares owned by the […]
Mark Ouma OLYMPICS The stringent qualifying criteria to make the South Africa Olympic team has inspired Jannie du Toit to believe he is a serious medal contender. Du Toit has posted impressive performances since last year that have earned him a place among the world’s top freestyle wrestlers in a discipline that has been dominated […]
Nelson Mandela, who is mediating the Burundi peace process, failed to secure an agreement last week, but now says a deal will be signed on August 28.
Clare Boylan Body Language When asked what age a woman ceases to feel the torments of the flesh the Princess Metter-nich replied: “I do not know. I am only 65.” Last week Marj Thoburn, a 60-year-old marriage guidance consultant, rocked a youth-obsessed boat by stating at a conference that people over 50 were more likely […]
Andy Colquhoun in Parramatta RUGBY Reporting on the Springboks occasionally puts one in mind of what it may have been like tramping in the wake of Caesar’s army as it marched into Germania each summer to campaign against the Visigoths (the author and proprietors of the Mail & Guardian in no way vouch for the […]
Riaan Wolmarans The massive Oppikoppi August music festival is this year expanding more than just the size of the stages – a separate festival is taking place near Worcester and an exchange programme is bringing Belgian musicians to this country. The arrangement between Oppikoppi and the organisers of the Pukkelpop festival in Belgium, which attracts […]
An exhibition of the work of architect Roelof Uytenbogaardt is a nostalgic tribute to South Africa’s most significant urban thinker Melinda Silverman The dark, 17th-century Dutch interior of the Old Town House in Cape Town houses a reverential exhibition of the work of Roelof Uytenbogaardt, modern South African architecture’s master of lightness and space. But […]
Peter Robinson CRICKET Of all the mistakes made by Shaun Pollock in his first Test match as captain (and, let’s be honest, he made a few), the worst by some distance was his failure to call the toss correctly on the first morning in Galle. A lot went wrong for South Africa in the first […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Friday 10.00am. SHAREHOLDERS in Nando’s, the fast food chain, voted overwhelmingly in favour of a controversial merger between Nando’s Group Holdings and its loss recording offshore operations, controlled by Nando’s chairperson Robbie Brozin. Critics including some Nando’s shareholders said that the deal was designed to salvage Brozin’s interests and protect them […]