ROB DAVIES reports | Sunday, 1.00PM THE Springbok rugby side on Saturday succeeded in breaking a 17-year drought when they beat the New Zealand All Blacks 13-3 at Athletic Park in Wellington. It was the first time since the 1981 Boks of Wynand Claasen that a South African side managed to beat the All Blacks […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Monday 11.00AM. FORMER Lonrho head and owner of The Observer, Tiny Rowland, died in a London hospital early on Friday, aged 80, from skin cancer. A renowned maverick and brilliant businessman, Rowland has in recent years been notable for his criticisms of the way his former Lonrho empire has been run, […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Cape Town | Monday 7.30PM. DR Niel Barnard, provincial director of the Western Cape, instructed his attorneys on Monday to serve a summons for libel against African National Congress provincial leader Ebrahim Rasool. Last Thursday, Rasool alleged that Barnard was involved in casino allocation bribery. He withdrew the allegations on Friday, but Barnard […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Dakar | Monday 8.30PM. GOVERNMENT and rebel soldiers in Guinea-Bissau on Monday signed an accord aboard a Portuguese warship anchored in the port of Bissau to observe an immediate ceasefire. The ceasefire agreement is the result of mediation by six fellow Portuguese-speaking countries. The accord calls for formal negotiations to start within eight […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Cape Town | Sunday. 1.00PM. THE 1998 Currie Cup season seems intent on producing upsets and surprises with every match, and even relatively small sides are staking their claim to the trophy. The Golden Lions’ competition woes continue after they were beaten 19-17 by the MTN Falcons at the Bosman stadium in Brakpan […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Harare | Friday, noon A NEW publishing consortium, including Independent Newspapers, plans to launch various titles in Zimbabwe to compete with the parastatal Newspaper Group and Zimbabwe Newspapers. Weekly local papers are planned for all major cities, as is the resurrection of the Daily News, banned in 1964 by Ian Smith’s white government. […]
Barbara Ludman SA 98-99: SOUTH AFRICA AT A GLANCE (Editors Inc) This slim little volume is a publishing success for its owners – former Star editors Harvey Tyson and Richard Steyn; Rex Gibson, last editor of the Rand Daily Mail; and George Trail, a former United States diplomat. This is its fourth edition; there are […]
Howard Barrell Over a Barrel You don’t have to be a fluent Afrikaans- speaker to know that an oorleg committee is not the same as an oorlog committee. The former seeks consultation; the latter war. A Cape Town English-language newspaper, however, got them mixed up recently. Some of us might even say the confusion was […]
Tamar Mason Right to Reply Visualise the following scenario: bored and out-of-scandal journalist sits at an airport and notices the only eye- catching tail design on the tarmac. He takes a closer look. Ah, an unusual sounding name. Further investigation reveals that the artist is none other than a San woman. Immediate conclusion: she’s been […]
Tangeni Amupadhi A Northern Cape doctor has called for the mandatory use of protective clothing after an outbreak of chemical poisoning affecting dozens of farmworkers. Many labourers in the Kakamas and surrounding areas have fallen ill during the past month after coming into contact with Dormex, which contains a highly toxic chemical called cyanamide. The […]