Neil Manthorp in Birmingham Cricket At last, some justice. The final moment of any significance, the last memory of the tour of England, was positive. Not just the victory, but the catch by Jonty Rhodes in the covers. So often we see great feats of athleticism diminished by the television replay. Occasionally they remain untarnished, […]
Mail & Guardian correspondents A last-ditch attempt by a coalition of states to rescue the ailing regime of Congolese President Laurent Kabila may have come too late as anti-government rebels continued their inexorable march to the capital Kinshasa this week. Despite reports of a ceasefire offer from the rebels and desperate attempts by South Africa […]
Stewart Dalby Spending it Travel literature is a field in which the collector would seem spoilt for choice. The variety is vast: exploration, seafaring, biology, outer space, anthropology, derring-do, geography, geology and meteorology. Some people collect modern tourist guides while others collect rare 16th- century books about how the world was first circumnavigated. What would […]
Steve Smith Live in Cape Town I once read this astute statement somewhere (Q magazine, I think): “A significant measure of a band’s ability is how they approach cover songs.” Witnessing a gig shared by Cape Town bands Fever Pussy and Blunt, the accuracy of that yardstick was once again confirmed. One band got it […]
Simone de Beauvoir described her companion and fellow philosopher, Jean-Paul Sartre, as her `greatest achievement’. But it was the American writer Nelson Algren who was the great love of her life. They began a passionate affair just as she was embarking on her landmark feminist text, The Second Sex. In her letters, she tells of […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Durban | Friday 10.00pm. FIFTY-THREE heads of state, five deputy presidents or prime ministers and 102 foreign ministers will be attending the Non-Aligned Movement summit which begins in Durban on Saturday. A further 12 foreign ministers will participate as observers, while up to 3000 delegates and several hundred media representatives will also attend. […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Cape Town | Friday 3.00PM. POLICE raided six computer retailers in Durban and Cape Town this week, uncovering counterfeit software — mainly sourced from Asia — worth R4,5 million. Attorney Marco van der Merwe, who acts for the Business Software Alliance, said on Friday: “This was a very sophisticated counterfeit product. It would […]
Piet Gouws and PH `Tienie’ Groenewald A SECOND LOOK A serious problem has developed in the platteland. Brutal attacks against the farming community have reached such alarming proportions that, even though farmers are creating security structures to ensure their own safety and that of their labourers, the number of farmers in certain districts on the […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Sunday 1.30pm. THE Eastern Province rugby team caused probably the greatest upset of the 1998 Currie Cup championships by beating the Free State Cheetahs 20-7 in Port Elizabeth on Friday. The Elephants were ahead 14-7 at half-time, and defended with absolute commitment to keep the Cheetahs, last year’s runners-up in the […]
Sandra Spavins EMILY-KATE by Meg Jordan (Iris) This is a story about a little girl who temporarily goes missing on a farm in KwaZulu-Natal. It is a large-format picture book, but has more text than most books of this type. The average eight or nine year old should be able to read it, yet the […]