Robert Kirby: Loose Cannon Our own police administration isn’t the only one coming in for continual and unwarranted media criticism. You should hear what they’ve been saying recently about that paragon of constabular integrity, the British police force. More especially the doings of someone they’ve dubbed “Condon of the Yard” – Sir Paul Condon, metropolitan […]
FRIDAY, 12.30PM: THE Sri Lankan touring cricket squad, who arrived in the country on Wednesday, are set to thrill the crowds with their brand of entertaining and exciting cricket. True to form, the Lankans promised to play “positive cricket” during the upcoming triangular series against South Africa and Pakistan. Team manager Dulip Mendis said the […]
stand Jansie Kotze and Jonathan Ancer The volk were armed with cellphones. And the leader was reduced to flogging off two bottles of mampoer dressed in a vierkleur, in his last-ditch bid to stay out of jail. It was all a long way from the Battle of Majuba. Or, for that matter, the heady days […]
Andy Duffy, is truly muddle-headed. In his article “UWC debt collector’s deal”(February 13 to 19) he gets his story wrong in so many areas that I must wonder about his competence. Now for the facts: Professor Ikey van de Rheede was appointed as vice-rector (student affairs) by the broad-based process which the university adopted in […]
FRIDAY, 6.30PM: AT stumps, South Africa were on 262/7 after 90 overs. FRIDAY, 5.30PM: SOUTH Africa were stuck with their backs against the wall on 157/5 at tea on the first day of the third Test against Pakistan at St George’s Park in Port Elizabeth on Friday. Pakistani paceman Waqar Younis was the reason for […]
Investing in listed companies with interests in the gaming sector may be a dangerous gamble, but some are bound to hit the Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE) jackpot. Legislation passed a year ago legalised casino gaming in South Africa for the first time, setting in place a race between local and international gaming companies for the […]
Andrew Worsdale: Movie of the week If Barry Levinson had got hold of the script for Good Will Hunting he would have turned it into another Rain Man – mawkish, sentimental and filled with the kind of Hollywood gloss that makes a potentially touching story just seem unreal. So it’s a credit to producer Lawrence […]
The NGO sector moves poverty back to centre stage with a daring pre-election roadshow, reports Ferial Haffajee In Bloemfontein, the heart of South Africa, on March 17, the nation’s poor will begin to speak out. They will continue to do so for more than two months, speaking about overcrowded schools, cardboard homes and dwindling social […]
A craze for shark-cage diving has its dangers … for sharks, writes Ellen Bartlett The bartender from Miami is standing tall on the port side of the boat, face to the wind, eyes in a happy squint in the glare of the morning sun. “There’s bungee jumping, there’s jumping out of an airplane and there’s […]
A bright new agency says the advertising industry is still on the old path, writes Ferial Haffajee ‘Hi, I’m calling from MDS.DD&M.” Say what? In an industry where acronyms abound, this one can get you more tongue-tied than most. The somewhat unwieldy name masks a new advertising agency with a very clear agenda. It wants […]