THE British Lions will visit Australia in 2001 after the tour is approved by the International Rugby Board’s (IRB) Executive Council. The IRB had originally wanted the Lions to play two tests in both New Zealand and Australia but decided instead to stage three tests in Australia only, with a separate tour of New Zealand […]
OPENING batsman Andrew Hudson has announced his retirement from international cricket after 35 tests for South Africa. Hudson, 34, was the first South African to score a century on a test debut when he made 163 against the West Indies in Barbados in 1992, South Africa’s first test after 22 years in isolation. Hudson scored […]
Shaun de Waal SOUTH AFRICA: A GUIDE TO RECENT ARCHITECTURE by Christina Muwanga (Ellipsis) This exceptionally cute little book (it is a mere 10cm square, though 350 pages thick) is an excellent pocket guide to South African architecture of the last decade or so. It doesn’t go back into our history, so it lacks some […]
A new incarnation of Matabeleland’s Zapu party has emerged to fight the `Shonalisation’ of Zimbabwe, writes Mercedes Sayagues Bulawayo is simmering. Part is fermented anger and part is soulful excitement. The anger is rooted in the government’s neglect of Matabeleland. That western Zimbabwe is poorer is obvious, from the threadbare airport to the barefoot, ragged […]
KAIZER Chiefs’ midfielder Lifa Gqosha is recovering in Chris Hani Baragwanath Hospital after police shot him on Tuesday night while he was allegedly trying to flee. Gqosha had been arrested for possesion of a suspected stolen vehicle and assaulting a police officer. The player’s family plan to lay charges against the police for assault. Gqosha’s […]
The houses built for 680 000 families are the most tangible signs of change, writes Ferial Haffajee If there is one thing that has marked the landscape of delivery, it’s the HOP-huise. That’s the Afrikaans term for the houses built under the auspices of the Reconstruction and Development Programme (in Afrikaans, that’s the Heropbou en […]
abusive police Ted Leggett There has been much speculation about why South African Police Service (SAPS) officers would abuse shackled and wounded citizens in front of BBC cameras, in footage they must have known would be broadcast all over the world. But criminal investigators often come across similar cases, where the perpetrators apparently go out […]
Marianne Merten General Constand Viljoen hit the campaign trail in the Western Cape this week without bodyguards, motor cavalcades, delays or the usual politician’s razzmatazz. Asked about his punctuality, so unlike many other politicians, he confessed jokingly: “I’m no politician.” Although there were no babies to be hugged or toddlers to be kissed, he smiled […]
Review of the week Alex Dodd Upon entering the blocky white space of the Laboratory (how apt) our ears are filled with the sound of a monotone female voice detailing the workings of the human chakra system. However, unlike the soothing tones of new age healers Caroline Myss or Louise Hayes, this voice, devoid of […]
Phillip van NiekerkL:FROM THE EDITOR’S DESK One of the great myths of our industry is that the press is “powerful”. This dates back, no doubt, to the days when The Times was “The Thunderer” – its correspondents, like Morrison of Peking, enjoying the status of ambassadors in foreign countries. Since then that power has been […]