election with 101% Matthew Engel The Equatorial Guinea Gazette Edited by Matthew Engel Incorporating the Malabo Mail, the Fernando Po Flyer and Rio Muni Reporter Today we bring you the first English-language newspaper devoted entirely to the affairs of the Republic of Equatorial Guinea. It fulfils a long-felt need because Equatorial Guinea apparently does not […]
Deon Potgieter Boxing If he wins on Saturday night, Dingaan “The Rose of Soweto” Thobela will become the first South African to gain world titles for three different world bodies. Thobela will take to the ring at the Nasrec complex against the South American champion, Adrian Daneff, for the vacant International Boxing Organisation Welterweight title. […]
NIGERIA’s military government ordered the “immediate release” on Thursday of 33 officers and civilians convicted of plotting coups against the previous regime, including 18 jailed with president-elect Olusegun Obasanjo. The country’s top military body, the Provisional Ruling Council, met in to the early hours of Thursday to agree to the pardon and release of those […]
THE small Drakensberg town of Underberg will host a battle royale for the vacant KZN K1 River canoeing title this weekend. With defending champion Wayne Volek sitting out on a doping suspension, scores of the country’s top paddlers will tussle on the upper Umzimkulu River in the two-day Strops Drakensberg Challenge. Contenders for the K1 […]
THREE of Russia’s best pole vaulters will be in South Africa to test Okkert Brits during the Engen Grand Prix Summer Series. Vadim Strogolev, Yevgeny Smiryagin and Pavel Burlatsenko have confirmed their participation in Pietersburg on March 13, Roodepoort on March 19 and in Cape Town on March 26. Joining them will be woman highjumper […]
They’ve been murdered, raped and mistreated for 3 000 years under India’s caste system. But now the untouchable women of rural Bihar are fighting back – with bullets. Jason Burke reports Two scenes from rural India. The first from the summer of 1996. Bhuli Devi, a 30-year- old peasant woman, stands naked in a field […]
Phillip Kakaza and Ren Rosen It’s Saturday afternoon and White City, Soweto, is vibrant with activity: throngs of people bustling along the pavement, vendors sellings their goods and street gamblers betting their homes, luxury cars and more than R10 000 at Javela Park. Rumour has it that some men are even prepared to gamble away […]
After initially neglecting the Internet, South Africa’s traditional media houses are now investing heavily in the next wave of media: online newspapers. Most major newspaper groups for the past two years have maintained a virtual presence on the World Wide Web, usually postings of their print stories and searchable archives of previous editions. But late […]
Elizabeth Wurtzel:BODY LANGUAGE In 19th-century France, the art academies considered it less than respectable to have students paint posed nudes. So, lest all the fun be quashed, the budding artistes made paintings of other people painting naked models. Now Esquire’s at it, too. How else to explain its February issue’s devotion to the topic of […]
Peter Vale: A SECOND LOOK The brave testimony of Dr Bridget O’Laughlin before the Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s amnesty committee provides a moment to pause and take a second look at the influential intellectual work of her friend and colleague, Ruth First, who was assassinated by an apartheid letter bomb in August, 1982. It also […]