festive season Stuck in Jo’burg over Christmas and new year? Bridget Hilton-Barber provides some good ideas for things to do 1 Top Star Drive-In. Just because the council can’t afford to switch on the Christmas lights in downtown Jo’burg this year, doesn’t mean festive Gauties should go without a spectacle. The Top Star drive- in […]

The truth commission’s hearings into human rights abuses end next week. But the emotional effects on the commission’s staff could last for many years. Angella Johnson reports Frank Mohapi was interviewing three surviving members of a family that had virtually been wiped out in a sectarian attack eight years ago when he noticed he was […]

Neil Manthorp : Cricket South Africa’s double-whammy victory over Australia in the last week, defending scores of 200 and 170 in 50 overs on awkward rather than impossible pitches in Sydney and Melbourne, has left this proud (all right then, arrogant) country nursing a wretchedly bruised ego. It is one thing to lose a battle […]

M&G reporter Telecommunications Minister Jay Naidoo’s bold plan to counter the year 2000 computer crisis may be too late, computer industry sources warn. While the United States is expected to achieve compliance by July 1999, South Africa is thought to be at least a year behind in preparations for the year 2000 problem. Although Naidoo’s […]

The researcher who spoke too soon Lizeka Mda Olga Visser is so surprisingly ordinary she easily fits the stereotype of home-maker. But that would be far from the truth. For one thing, this mother of six does not cook, and her husband Zigi swears she is a hopeless slob. Which is all very well as […]

The foot soldiers of an economic empire in decline plod on, writes Andrew Higgins Electronic panels flashing orange-coloured numbers crack the calm of the salaryman, dispirited foot soldier of an economic empire in retreat. The figures, on display in Tokyo’s financial district, relate not to the collapsing share prices of Japan’s brittle banks but something […]

Sechaba ka’Nkosi and Wally Mbhele Never in its history has the African National Congress approached its national conference as deeply divided as the party appears to be at the moment. The greatest challenge the ANC faces next week is not from its opposition, but its membership. President Nelson Mandela’s departure as ANC president is already […]

FRIDAY, 4.00PM: AFTER three days of talks on the future of their Indian Ocean federation, Comoran separatists and government delegates have yet to agree on anything, apart from a broad offer of autonomy by the government to each of the islands of Grande Comore, Anjouan and Moheli. The Addis Ababa talks, sponsored by the Organsiation […]

Andrew Muchineripi : Soccer Clive Barker is displaying remarkable confidence ahead of the Confederations Cup in Saudi Arabia for a national coach whose team has been outplayed in three consecutive matches. He told reporters before departing for the eight-nation tournament that Bafana Bafana would reach the final and only world champions Brazil presented a threat […]

FRIDAY, 12.00NOON: THE South African cricket team scored one for the record books on Thursday when they beat New Zealand by a single run at the Bellerive oval in Hobart, Tasmania. The South Africans won the toss and elected to bat first in the 50-over match. Tight bowling and good fielding by the Kiwis held […]