Friday night Nathan Zeno There is no Saturday night in Cape Town – or rather Saturday night is for losers. Let me qualify that. If you know anything about this town, you’ll be in bed recovering on Saturday night. There is enough on any given Friday night to exhaust you and if not there’s always […]

Cheryl Carolus looked set for a high post in the ANC government; instead she opted to be South Africa’s first female high commissioner in London, writes Liz McGregor Cheryl Carolus is not your average diplomat. She travels by tube, wears mini-skirts and parties into the small hours. She has strong opinions about her host country […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Friday 9.15pm. GRIQUALAND West remained firmly in entrenched in their position for a Currie Cup semi-final berth after a good 33-14 win over South Western Districts at Outeniqua Park in George on Friday evening. The men from Kimberley led 21-9 at halftime. The match was, however, not as one-sided as the […]

Richard Nelsson Spending It During the Eighties a bulging Filofax was the symbol of the successful and upwardly mobile; for the Nineties the “must have” is an electronic organiser. But these “personal digital assistants” (PDAs) are much more than just hi-tech versions of their leather-bound antecedents. The latest models have not only the capacity to […]

Serious questions are being asked about the state of South Africa’s defence forces following the Lesotho intervention, writes Howard Barrell The public, defence and security analysts and African National Congress and opposition politicians have expressed concern over the past 10 days about the coherence of the young South African National Defence Force (SANDF) after it […]

Robert Kirby: Loose cannon Like many of my fellow citizens, I am now sleeping much more comfortably at night. After South Africa’s much maligned defence force so commendably and so swiftly trounced one of the poorest, most fragile countries on the African continent, I find instilled in me a feeling of enraptured patriotic self-esteem. Not […]

season Mercedes Sayagues tries a popular Southern African aphrodisiac, but finds the side effects too hot to handle I tried wankie, and it works. But I don’t think I will try it again. Wankie (herbs, in seShona) is the generic word for traditional aphrodisiacs for women in Zimbabwe, but there are as many names as […]

Remember Pop Shop: “Put your feet on the ground and reach for the stars”? What some poor monkeys like myself didn’t realise while flailing our arms at the heavens was that the Pop Shop galaxy was a ridiculously limited one. Beyond stars like Duran Duran and the Pet Shop Boys was a multitude of other […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Friday 7.15pm. POLICE commissioner Suiker Brits confirmed on Friday that Colin Chauke, one of South Africa’s most wanted criminals who allegedly masterminded several multi-million rand cash-in-transit heists, is not among the nine suspects arrested in connection with a heist in Namibia this week. Reports on Thursday claimed that Chauke was among […]

British trip-hop band Massive Attack arrive in South Africa on Sunday. Charles Leonard did a telephonic interview with Robert `3-D’ Del Naja from his hotel room in Detroit `We’re on a 17-date tour of North America. We’ve been here a couple of times before. They must like us because they’ve invited us back, but we […]