Mungo Soggot : A Second Look Judge Monas Flemming bestowed on Allan Greenblo the honour of becoming the new South Africa’s first banned author when he turned the clock back on the country’s media law in the Johannesburg High Court last week. His decision to ban Greenblo’s biography of Sol Kerzner was all the more […]

FRIDAY, 11.00AM: ZAMBIAN commonwealth light welterweight champion Felix Bwalya was still in a corma at the Lusaka Teaching Hospital days after winning the title from Paul Burke in a controversial decision. Bwalya was knocked down three times in the fight and was on canvas when the final bell saved him. He was admitted to the […]

Fifty years on: Terror Lekota’s victory signals a resurgence of the left and the former MDM activists. Reports by Wally Mbhele, Marion Edmunds and Sechaba ka’Nkosi Former Free State premier Patrick “Terror” Lekota shot back from the political sidelines with a resounding landslide victory over Minister of Sport Steve Tshwete for the position of national […]

Melvyn Minnaar : Potable pleasures Would you believe it? Sherry is making a comeback. Set to join the with-it crowd this summer, it’s certain not to go unnoticed by the trendies preparing to party for the end of the millennium. If vague recollections evoke visions of a pale brownish liquor that mother dribbled into the […]

Neil Manthorp : Cricket Shane Warne and Hansie Cronje shared the spotlight and the headlines in a week of fraught tension and frayed nerves as the pressure builds before the biggest Test series in South Africa’s history. Not that the Australians are taking it lightly. The South African captain was accused of cheating for the […]

Lucy Hannan in Nairobi Surrounded by filth and terrorised by crime, residents of the suburb of Korogocho routinely refer to themselves as the “forgotten ones”. But even their misery could be ignored when a cholera epidemic took grip in Nairobi’s slums as a nurses’ strike entered its third week. Government hospitals have remained deserted since […]

Max Gebhardt It’s hard to believe Brian Gilbertson was once of the opinion that unbundling wasn’t in the best interests of Gencor. Especially if you consider that he has taken Gencor by the scruff of the neck and given it a well- deserved shake. The once massive industrial conglomerate is now nothing more than a […]

Gavin Evans : Boxing Boxing’s geriatric decade may be ready for a new twist when Thulane “Sugarboy” Malinga fights Britain’s Robin Reid for the WBC supoer middleweight title on Friday night. Throughout his career Sugarboy has been such an erratic boxer that you never know who is going to turn up – the brilliant dazzler, […]

Africa Marcellus Chuene writes a cautionary message to Pallo Jordan and the new elite I am responding to an article by Pallo Jordan that appeared in the Mail & Guardian of November 28 to December 4 1997 entitled “ANC must cultivate the new elite”. I am not opposed to the views of the minister about […]