Paul Kirk and Evidence wa ka Ngobeni Most of the fun in Durban will be centred around the city’s harbour, Africa’s busiest. But what was supposed to have been the star attraction in the bustling port – a replica of the Titanic – will not make the deadline. The ship has in fact not been […]

Movie of the week Arnold Schwarzenegger has never been better than when he played a cyborg-assassin in The Terminator, and he has never been in a better movie. Subsequent attempts to extend his action career, in films such as The Last Action Hero and True Lies, were comparatively unsuccessful; attempts to develop his persona with […]

Barry Streek BIG MEN LITTLE PEOPLE: ENCOUNTERS IN AFRICA by Alec Russell (Macmillan) Despite its somewhat obvious title, which is over-emphasised by a picture of a pleading Jonas Savimbi on the cover, Alec Russell, who was the Daily Telegraph’s Johannesburg correspondent, has written an interesting book, based on his reporting experiences in Africa. For him, […]

Marianne Merten ‘The Party Is On!” billboards proclaim along Cape Town’s main thoroughfares with just 21 days to go before the new millennium. It has not been an easy path for the Mother City. After announcing plans for the mother of all parties at the start of this year, it all seemed to collapse when […]

SOUTH Africa’s seven-a-side rugby team kick off their challenge for the Stellenbosch Sevens title on Friday with a match against Kenya at the Danie Craven Stadium. The team, led by former Bok winger Jacques Olivier, will be hoping to improve on their recent showing at the Dubai Sevens where they were beaten 31-0 in the […]

Suzanne Leclerc-Madlala With legislation on the Promotion of Equality and Prevention of Unfair Discrimination Bill due to be passed soon, a special parliamentary committee is currently debating whether examples of discrimination should be included in a schedule to be added to the Bill. Examples suggested to form part of this schedule are discrimination based on […]

Sources in the Democratic Party have fingered four prominent members of the party as being part of a cabal bent on keeping their grip on the DP in Gauteng. Howard Barrell reports The machinations of a cabal of old-style liberals lie behind the extraordinary conflict within the Democratic Party that has exploded into the public […]

Andy Capostagno WHO IS … ERNIE ELS? Ernie Els comes back to earth this week. Els plays in the Players Championship at Royal Cape for a total purse which is less than a third of what he won alone at the Nedbank Million Dollar Challenge last week. The Players Championship is the start of the […]

Perhaps the best way to describe Thabo Mbeki’s term of office to date is as a “back-room presidency”. With the tacit assistance of an invisible official opposition it is threatening to make a nonsense of our democracy. The signs have been there for some time where President Mbeki is concerned. The centralisation of political power. […]

DEPUTY President Jacob Zuma on Thursday wished South African Muslims well as they embark on the holy month of Ramadaan on Thursday night. “These thirty days of fasting are, as we understand it, a period not only about abstention from food and drink, but also a time of deep spiritual rejuvenation and awakening,” he said […]