Peter Dickson Within a day of being spirited away overnight, Port Elizabeth’s stolen Sophakama High School turned up all over the place after a wild donkey chase in the city’s Kwazakhele township. Port Elizabeth community policing board chair Vuyisile Njikelana was on his way to work in Motherwell last Wednesday when he spotted a donkey […]

Performance art is internal and intrusive – it is like surgery without anaesthetic. Static visual art is like an anaesthetic without surgery … – Steven Cohen Peet Pienaar, he of the oke-ish good looks and rugby-inspired aesthetics, doesn’t really want to talk to me. He’s had enough of interviews, he wants to stop explaining what […]

ONE of the last bastions of Johannesburg’s business elite, the Rand Club, is considering joining the exodus of business to the suburbs. The club has been in Loveday Street in central Johannesburg since its founding in 1887. Since then it has been the favoured watering hole of the city’s captains of industry. However, in a […]

European negotiators to give President Nelson Mandela a farewell present before he steps down.

Howard Barrell Musical chairs continued in Parliament this week when two more opposition politicians – Patrick McKenzie of the New National Party and Bukelwa Mbulawa of the Democratic Party – joined the African National Congress. Mbulawa’s defection is a blow to the DP. But McKenzie’s change of loyalties came as no surprise. The Mail & […]

John Matshikiza:WITH THE LID OFF ‘To the untrained eye,” says Achmat, ”these dogs might look a bit lacksy-daisy.” ”A bit what?” I say. ”Yes, they might look a bit lacksy-daisy now, in broad daylight, to you, because you don’t know them,” Achmat says, ”but at night their ears go back flat on their heads, and […]

Aaron Nicodemus Nugget Park, a small dirt square at the corner of Nugget and Saratoga streets, has become a battleground in Johannesburg’s war on homelessness. Every so often – there’s no predicting when, homeless people say – an unmarked car or van will pull up to Nugget Park, men in street clothes will get out […]

Shell has launched an ad campaign proclaiming that it’s not just after profits. Roger Cowe looks at a new trend among multinationals Shell launched a series of advertisements in Britain this week as part of a $25-million campaign the oil company is calling ”stakeholder consultation”. Stakeholders are all those affected in one way or another […]

THE Australian women’s hockey team beat South Africa 4-1 in the third of five tests in Potchefstroom on Wednesday. The series was locked at 1-1 coming into this match following Australia’s 3-0 victory in the first test and South Africa’s 2-1 win in the second. But any hopes the South Africans had of another upset […]

MARK FISH pledged on Tuesday to help Bolton Wanderers, his English club, get back into the English Premiership, denying rumours he wanted to leave. Despite Bolton’s recent slump, with the club fifth in division one and nine points adrift of an automatic promotion place, Fish said: “There’s nine games to go and there’s no way […]