Marion Edmunds One of the world’s most respected human rights watchdogs has accused the South African government of committing serious human rights abuses against illegal immigrants, in a damning report that draws parallels with the apartheid regime’s treatment of blac ks. The Human Rights Watch report is the first significant attack from an international agency […]
‘Ma’am,” said John Edas with a dramatic pause, “motor racing is lily white. At Motor Sport South Africa there is only one person of colour – and that’s me.” The members of the parliamentary committee on sport and recreation looked on grimly as they pondered the difficulties of making motor racing a sport befitting the […]
Joseph Heller thinks Catch-22 makes him America’s greatest novelist. What more can a man achieve? Well, he could try and be a bit nicer, writes Lynn Barber Everyone told me beforehand that I would love Joseph Heller, and, of course, I already loved his writing. I belong to the generation that wore “Yossarian Lives!” badges […]
Wally Mbhele The arrest of Robert McBride on charges of gun-running in Mozambique seems to have been a well-co-ordinated police trap, planned with the man he was captured with, Vusi Mbatha, Mozambican gun-runner Alex Mamba, and the South African security forces. There is concern that old-guard elements of the South African military and police assisted […]
Robert Kirby: LOOSE CANNON I see The Great Professor Jay Naidoo is up to his Indian rope tricks again. Should racist-bashers bulge to the previous sentence, let rest. I use the term, Indian rope trick, in its flattering sense. As a part-time magician, I have only praise for illusi ons that both delight and confuse. […]
Who is . . . ‘Suiker’ Britz? Stefaans Brummer Assistant Commissioner Karel “Suiker” Britz wears grey shoes. Or if he doesn’t he should, for he fits snugly into that category of old-guard cops with nicknames like “Snor” and “Balletjies”. But while Britz does sport an impressive moustache, and presumably has the other attribute as well, […]
Alan HenryMotor racing Ferrari are poised to offer Michael Schumacher a virtual blank cheque to prevent him defecting to the McLaren-Mercedes team in 1999, a year before the end of his contract. Fiat’s president Gianni Agnelli is said to have sanctioned a o52-million package to ensure Schumacher stays at Ferrari to the end of the […]
Andrew Muchineripi: Soccer His French accent was thicker than coarse-cut breakfast marmalade, but the message spelt out by new Bafana Bafana coach Philippe Troussier at his first media conference this week was crystal clear. The White Witchdoctor believed the national team had great potential and would not provide cannon fodder for Group C opponents France […]
FRIDAY, 3.00PM: AN unbeaten 81 by Shaun Pollock, and poor slip catching by Roshan Mahanama, paved the way for South Africa to post a good first-innings total of 418 on the second day of the first Test against Sri Lanka at Newlands on Friday. Dropped by Mahanama when he had 25, Shaun Pollock lived on […]
Stefaans Brummer Gauteng Premier Mathole Motshekga has spun a web of lies around an accident three years ago in which his luxury Toyota was wrecked. Afterwards, he ran up a car-finance debt of more than R140 000, but ignored a court order to settle. The inconsistencies appear to include perjury, when Motshekga insisted in an […]