OWN CORRESPONDENT, Port Elizabeth | Friday 6.30pm. ENGLAND clawed their way back into the match on day number two of the second test against South Africa in Port Elizabeth. By the close of play the touring side had rattled up a reply of 139/1 to South Africa’s blistering first innings total of 450. After losing […]

Thirty-one years after the assassination of the civil rights leader, one man is still fighting to expose what he says is the truth behind the murder. Tony Stark reports Bill Pepper is a crusader – a man with a mission that has transformed this quietly spoken American lawyer from an unknown attorney into someone who […]

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 […]

Adam Haupt spoke to the mystical Bansuri flautist Deepak Ram about his new release, Searching for Satyam It is ironic that Deepak Ram’s new album, Searching for Satyam, is being released when it seems that music stores have only just recently started to promote Flute for Thought, Ram’s previous release. Tananas fans might remember Deepak […]

up? Radicals, revolutionaries and Tony Blair all lay claim to Christ. Peter Stanford asks who’s right Seated before a stage built to resemble a giant Christmas crib, Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat on Saturday December 4 opened the millennium celebrations in the town of Bethlehem, where tradition has it that Christ was born. A band played […]

EMMA THOMASSON, Pretoria | Friday 8.30am THE government warned on Thursday that unless the European Union ratifies a long-awaited free trade deal soon, its implementation could not take place as planned next month. Trade and Industry Minister Alec Irwin said, however, that a short delay will not be a major tragedy. ”The EU must make […]

Adam Mars-Jones BODY LANGUAGE Mrs Patrick Campbell once famously said that she didn’t care what people did in the bedroom as long as they didn’t frighten the horses. Now it turns out that no human sexual act has much prospect of startling our animal cousins. In his astounding book, Biological Exuberance: Animal Homosexuality and Natural […]