THE “Rose of Soweto”, former world boxing champion Dingaan Thobela, has narrowly escaped a ban after weighing in seven kilograms overweight for his welterweight bout against Argentina’s Adrian Daneff last Saturday. The bout was reduced from a title fight to an international contest and Thobela forfeited half his purse to his opponent. That penalty led […]
Matthew Krouse Down the tube `No politicians behind desks and no talking heads,” promise the producers of Real Lives, e.tv’s new 13-part documentary series aired on Wednesdays at 9pm. The first two episodes, now shown, have indeed been free of laboured political invective and emotional commentary – proving what light relief a non-judgmental approach to […]
KALAHARI Express Airlines, grounded by a host of problems since being granted an operating licence in 1996, now appears set to take off. KEA, to be operated jointly by Air Namibia and South African Airways’ sister airline, South African Express, is expected to start daily flights between Windhoek, Johannesburg and Cape Town before July 1999. […]
GHANA, Morocco and Nigeria have applied to host the 2000 Nations Cup, the Confederation of African Football said on Friday. They will compete with original hosts Zimbabwe for the right to stage the 16-nation tournament from January 23 to February 13. The successful candidate will be named on Monday when CAF executives meet in Guinea. […]
Arthur Koestler raped novelist Jill Craigie. Now novelist Frederic Raphael says it was her own fault. Libby Brooks and Stephen Moss report Jill Craigie wraps her red wool-covered arms around the modern plastic kettle as it boils, to muffle or draw heat from it one isn’t quite sure. She eyes her garden through the long, […]
`Le Vive? Le … something like that. Does it mean anything to you?” “Le Vive? La Veuve, perhaps? You say it has something to do with nuns?” “I think they’re nuns. They don’t speak English, so I wasn’t too sure what they were talking about.” The setting is Ouagadougou by night. We’re driving around in […]
Andrew Worsdale Movie of the week `Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.” So said award-winning playwright Tom Stoppard who, together with Marc Norman, penned the faultless script for Shakespeare in Love. If they don’t get an Oscar nod for […]
Patrick Johnson Howard Barrell (“Triumph of the politics of stupefaction”, February 19 to 25) raises a number of questions regarding the African National Congress’s national and provincial election lists, and the ordering of the lists as published earlier. It is interesting that of all the ANC ministers Barrell zoomed in on, he singled out those […]
Neil Manthorp in Christchurch Cricket `It couldn’t have happened at a better time in my career. I grew up more in that week than I did in the rest of my life put together. If I hadn’t and I’d been the same person I was before then, I would never have survived, I just wouldn’t […]
Question: What do you do with a large brown tube-like object placed between your index finger and thumb? Answer: Don’t deny the experience ever took place – as United States President Bill Clinton did after he gave Monica Lweinsky a cigar to titillate herself with while he watched. That’s the official line from the 70-odd […]