Andrew Muchineripi Soccer The draw for the 1999 African Champions League club competition was particularly kind to Sundowns as they dodged potentially awkward opponents from Angola, Zambia and Zimbabwe in the preliminary rounds. They duly disposed of enthusiastic but limited Telecom Wanderers of Malawi in the first round, with burly Nigerian striker Raphael Chukwu scoring […]
Cameron Duodu:LETTER FROM THE NORTH You’ve got to be either a very brave man or a foolish one to make predictions about Nigeria. I shall prove to you in a minute that this statement is a paradox – the point is not that Nigeria cannot be predictable, but that you, the predictor, will predict it […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Friday 3.30pm. THE Mail & Guardian has endorsed the African National Congress for the June 2 elections, just three weeks after promising that it would not be endorsing any specific party. Editor Philip van Niekerk explained the choice of the ANC, saying the party “has made a contribution second to none […]
Corruption and crime have dominated the election debates up to now. But there are other critical issues that are germane to how South Africans will vote on June 2. These are just three. Education The African National Congress has always been strong on education policy. It brought to office an ambitious vision for a radically […]
ABOUT 5000 United Democratic Movement supporters will march to the offices of African National Congress Northern Province premier Ngoako Ramatlhodi, on Saturday, to demand the release of a controversial report on traditional chiefs. Provincial UDM leader Reverend Kingsley Masemola accused the premier on Thursday of wanting to withhold the report until after the June 2 […]
The Cannes Film Festival got off to an uneasy start last week with Nikita Mikhalkov’s saccharine three-hour melodrama The Barber Of Siberia, a movie with the epic qualities of a Russian winter. By the end of it, no peasant imagined the first shy blooms of springtime more fervently than we awaited the closing credits. Moreover, […]
recovery Marianne Merten Garry has been clean for 18 months. He survived crack addiction. “It brings people to their knees quicker than anything else. You lose weight. You can’t sleep. I often sat in my room high on crack, highly emotional, wanting to cry. I couldn’t. It leaves you hollow.” Garry came to Cape Town […]
Tangeni Amupadhi Namibian artists are outraged over what they call “apartheid-style censorship” rearing its head in their democratic country. The outrage was sparked by the Namibian government’s decision to withdraw financial support for a popular play scheduled to be staged at the Market Theatre in Johannesburg next week. The Ministry of Basic Education and Culture […]
Marianne Merten It was a bitter-sweet moment this week for 12 Cape Town families who finally received compensation for their homes and land lost to the Group Areas Act more than 30 years ago. Bitter, because most of them cannot return to the homes they lost when the apartheid government declared they were not white […]
ANNUAL passenger car sales worldwide will barely top 32-million in 2000, 3,3-million vehicles fewer than last year’s turnover, reducing sales to levels last seen in the 1980s, Britain’s Economist Intelligence Unit said on Thursday. “Overall world car sales will not exceed their 1997 peak volumes again until 2003,” the EIU said in an abstract from […]