THURSDAY, 6.30PM: SOUTH AFRICA are in a spot of bother at tea on the first day of the first Test at Edgbaston with Mike Atherton and Mark Butcher forging an unbeaten opening partnership of 151 to place England in a very healthy position on Thursday. The English batsmen kept cool heads after they had been […]
Philippa Garson Class Struggle There’s nothing like an avalanche of blunt facts to send politicians and theorists scuttling back to the drawing board – at least one hopes so. When confronted with the disturbing, grainy footage of real life, rather than the crisply sanitised version stamped on to the pages of our many White Papers […]
FRENCH President Jacques Chirac sent a message to Moammar Gadaffi praising the Libyan leader for his efforts to bring peace to Africa, Libyan state television said on Thursday. Chirac said “France supports Colonel Gadaffi’s efforts to establish peace and stability in Africa,” the television station said. “Libya plays an important role in the Mediterranean area, […]
Mungo Soggot The Pretoria High Court has dealt another blow to the Mpumalanga Gaming Board by refusing leave to appeal against a court order instructing them to hand over videotapes and documents of its deliberations. The decision is the latest in a series of court orders which have reversed or implicitly questioned decisions taken by […]
Thrillers PROVOCATION by Charlotte Grimshaw (Abacus) Astute businessman Carlos Lehmann takes his capital gains and his family and settles in Seabrooke, a small New Zealand bush community where everyone is so interrelated one thinks immediately of Deliverance. The good folk of Seabrooke, inspired by prejudice (Lehmann is half-Maori, half-white) and greed (he’s bought a large […]
Donna Block Share World For months now my husband, the spending phenomenon, has been nagging me to get a real job and get back into my pre-journalistic profession – stock-broking. And to tell you the truth I’ve been seriously thinking about it. After working on Wall Street for most of my adult life and watching […]
Wally Mbhele makes very bold statements about the disunity of the African National Congress in the Free State (“Fresh splits in the Free State ANC”, May 21 to 27). And the article has done a disservice to the understanding of the nature of Free State politics. Essentially, Mbhele sees red in the ANC where it […]
Internal divisions and bitter leadership struggles spoiled black opposition parties’s election chances, reports Wally Mbhele South Africa’s second democratic election virtually spelled the death knell for those black opposition parties who have positioned themselves to the left of the African National Congress. The Azanian People’s Organisation (Azapo) and its breakaway Socialist Party of Azania (Sopa), […]
TONY LAWRENCE, London | Friday 11.00am. PAKISTAN and South Africa meet on Saturday in what may prove to be a dress rehearsal for the World Cup final. Mark I, however, will be as hotly contested as Mark II. South Africa, edged out by Pakistan as tournament favourites over the last few days, badly need to […]
DAVID SHAPSHAK, Johannesburg | Thursday 5.40pm. STORMERS player representative Andy Marinos and captain Corne Krige will face an independent disciplinary committee hearing next Thursday about their team’s refusal to play in a Super 12 semi-final. The Stormers were crushed 33-18 by the Otago Highlanders on May 22 after they refused to take the field unless […]