A performance audit has given ANC councillors the jitters in the wake of local government elections Sechaba ka’Nkosi Ashake-up within African National Congress branches is expected to take place in the build-up to local government elections amid serious tensions and jostling for power among councillors uncertain of their future role in the party. The uncertainty […]
The dominance of black athletes is one of the most explosive issues in modern sport. Everyone is aware of it, but no one mentions it. Now, a controversial new book attempts to wrestle with the most taboo subject in world sport Andrew Anthony At the Olympics in September there will be few racing certainties. The […]
Austrian artist Gottfried Helnwein’s most important influences are Donald Duck and Jesus Christ Kate Connolly Walking along Cork Street in central London, trying to locate the Robert Sandelson Gallery, I do a double-take on seeing Mick Jagger standing at number 5a, gazing through its paneless window. He has the 1970s hairstyle, carved cheeks and angular […]
SOME 600 elephants from Mozambique have trooped into a Malawi national park, doubling the elephant population. Aggrey Dzimbiri, manager of Liwonde national park in southern Machinga district, bordering Mozambique, said he suspects the elephants were fleeing from Mozambique because the vegetation there had been destroyed by the recent floods. Dzimbiri, who looks after the 538-square-kilometre […]
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 […]
Michelle Matthews ‘Fabulous, fabrics, frisson … futile” – the cover of the Fashion TV press kit makes a PR boo-boo with its overly exuberant alliteration. What f-word is more fitting for a channel that shows skinny chicks and muscled hunks in outrageously expensive, yet barely wearable clothes 24 hours a day? Perhaps the key is […]
A young sportsman with the world at his feet threw his career away for his captain Marianne Merten The young man once described as South Africa’s sporting “wunderkind” could have represented his country in several sports. His first love, soccer, even stirred interest from overseas clubs, including Tottenham Hotspur. But parental advice and a knee […]
Cameron Duodu LETTER FROM THE NORTH The term “senseless war” should be a contradiction in terms. Because humanity was given the power of reasoning by Mother Nature, war should not be in our vocabulary at all. But Mother Nature also gave us the power not to use our reason! And more often than not, we […]
WHAT’S NEW It’s called Sealand, it’s currently 10m by 25m and it’s about to become an international “data haven” run by an American company, HavenCo. Sealand is an abandoned fortress built by the British during World War II and “colonised” by a British eccentric and former army major, Roy Bates, in 1966. A 1968 British […]
again Tony Harrison CRICKET Allan Donald, arguably the fastest white bowler in the world, can’t wait to get back to action for his English county side Warwickshire. The South African pace ace is recovering from an accident at Hove when he fell backwards on to an advertising board while attempting to make a catch off […]