Late last week I switched on to a BBC television programme de- voted to money and financial matters. On this occasion the subject was a debate about an address given earlier by Eddie George, governor of the Bank of England. I got ready to be thoroughly bored; it wasn’t long, however, before I found myself […]
ENGLAND’S hopes of hosting the 2006 World Cup received a boost on Thursday when shareholders approved the sale of Wembley stadium to a subsidiary company of the English Football Association (FA). The 103-million deal with paves the way for a 320-million redevelopment of the stadium. Another boost followed when Fifa spokesperson Keith Cooper confirmed that […]
Charlene Smith King Carl Gustaf of Sweden this week knighted long-time anti-apartheid activist Horst Kleinschmidt with the Order of the Polar Star, Sweden’s highest award for foreigners. Sweden became the first government to acknowledge the incredible work over five decades of the organisation International Defence and Aid Fund (Idaf), which Kleinschmidt headed from 1979 until […]
Last year I was invited to speak at the Oxford Union in my capacity as editor of the Erotic Review. I was also asked if I would like to stage an exhibition of erotic prints to give an extra frisson to the evening’s debate. I filled the august interior of the Gladstone room with explicit […]
Rebecca Smithers Product: JUMP AHEAD BABY knowledge adventure Requirements: PC: Windows 3.1; 8Mb Ram; Mac: System 7; 8Mb Ram I was initially sceptical about introducing my daughter Mabel to the world of computers at the tender age of 12 months. But after just half-an- hour of trying out Jump Ahead Baby, she was bashing the […]
If you knew what leaders of the different opposition parties tend to say about each other over, for example, lunch with a journalist, you too would have sat up and taken note of an event last Friday. Leaders of the New National Party, Democratic Party, Pan Africanist Congress, African Christian Democratic Party and Freedom Front […]
Mungo Soggot Several government schools are now offering students the chance to sit A level exams as confidence in South Africa’s matric qualification declines. State schools are joining the many private schools that have been providing courses for A levels for some time – usually for students planning to either study abroad or emigrate with […]
selection With the Western Stormers announcing a B team for their match down under this weekend, Andy Capostagno ponders how other sides will react Western Stormers coach Alan Solomons seems to be reinventing the traditional rules of the game on an almost daily basis. Last year, for instance, Solomons stopped releasing teams to the press […]
upright people’ With its biennial film festival the little country of Burkina Faso plays a big role in African film-making. John Matshikiza found the `reel’ heart of Africa in Ouagadougou Give a dog a bad name and he’ll be a bad dog. Give a dog a good name, and he might just turn into a […]
Ouagadougou, the capital of the tiny West African country of Burkina Faso, is also the self-styled capital of African cinema. Every two years it hosts Fespaco, the festival of films from Africa and the African diaspora. John Matshikiza, who attended for the first time this year, talks about two of his favourite films from this […]