OWN CORRESPONDENT, Cape Town | Thursday 1.45pm. SACKED South African cricket captain Hansie Cronje told the King Commission into match-fixing that former Indian captain Mohammed Azharuddin introduced him to a bookmaker who offered him money for losing a Test in 1996. Cronje said Azharuddin arranged a meeting with the bookmaker known as MK in at […]
Thebe Mabanga IN YOUR EAR The community radio sector has received an impressive boost with the launch of the Coca-Cola Enjoy hour. The project was started in February as a six-week pilot project on Alex FM. The project then became national, incorporating a selection of drive-time presenters, including Alex FM and Voice of Soweto in […]
Tim Adams ANIL’S GHOST by Michael Ondaatje (Bloomsbury) It has been seven years since Michael Ondaatje published The English Patient. Prior to that book, prior to the Booker Prize and to Ralph Fiennes and the seven Oscars, Ondaatje had written two other novels, as well as a critically successful memoir and 10 volumes of poetry, […]
The apartheid state used diplomatic bags to smuggle sensitive and often dangerous equipment rather than classified documents Stefaans Brmmer Department of Foreign Affairs documents suggest diplomatic bag facilities were regularly abused to smuggle arms components during apartheid – endangering the lives of airline passengers. A file in possession of the Mail & Guardian shows how […]
Few South Africans look capable of ending the foreign domination in the Comrades Michael Finch It seems ironic that on a day when the Comrades Marathon is experiencing its finest hour with its largest entry ever, chances of a South African victory on Youth Day (June 16) seem as unlikely as an empty medical tent. […]
Andy Capostagno GOLF It is sometimes difficult to take Americans seriously when they speak of history. For most of their population, old is something that happened before World War II, antique before World War I. It is that much worse in the marketing of golf by the United States television networks, where adherence to family […]
Stephen Gray I, TITUBA by Maryse Cond (Faber &Faber) THE ABYSSINIAN by Jean-Christophe Rufin (Picador) As one of their first books dated 2000, Faber have reissued one of Maryse Cond’s novels in their Caribbean Series, chosen by Caryl Phillips. The short title is I, Tituba, although this had previously been followed by the subtitle Black […]
C Robert Kirby LOOSE CANNON You knew the way it was going to go that moment, a few weeks back, when a morose Hansie Cronje stepped into the press room flanked by two politicians and his greaseball Christian mentor. It was like finding that soft tomato at the bottom of the bag. You don’t have […]
FORMER Indian captain Mohammad Azharuddin has denied claims by Hansie Cronje that he introduced the disgraced South African skipper to a bookie who offered money to throw a 1996 Test match. “It’s all rubbish. Cronje has no credibilty left with him. I don’t know the person he is talking about,” Azharuddin said. “I will be […]
Kit Peel Don’t be fooled by the stoepville houses, the laid-back feel, the picture-book tranquillity. The fact that it was mostly Afrikaans civil servants until the 1970s and thereafter arty eccentrics. The oh-so- carefully maintained fib that says: “We’re this alternative little lamb in the commercial beast city of Africa.” The old Melville crowd will […]