MONDAY, 6.00PM PRESIDENT Nelson Mandela on Saturday morning invested visiting Indonesian President Mohamed Suharto with the Order of Good Hope, Class One, Grand Cross (Gold), South Africa’s highest civilain honour, immediately drawing fire from opposition parties. Democratic Party leader Tony Leon said the award to Suharto, and one recently bestowed on Libyan strongman Colonel Muammar […]

MONDAY, 11.00AM: GRIQUAS need only 93 runs to win their Supersport Series cricket game against Free State on Monday, after dismissing their hosts for 227 in their second innings at the Springbok Park on Sunday. Griquas had earlier added 29 runs to their first innings 333/5 to finish at 362, with Free State 127 in […]

MONDAY, 4.00PM: A ZIMBABWEAN opposition leader and methodist minister Ndabaningi Sithole appeared in court on Monday, charged with attempting to assassinate President Robert Mugabe by blowing up his motorcade. Sithole, one of only two opposition MPs in parliament, was arrested two years ago along with two alleged co-conspirators, who have since both been jailed with […]

MONDAY, 9.00AM: BRITAIN’s Sunday Telegraph revealed on Sunday that Anglo American plans this week to merge its gold mining operations into a single R20-billion company, to combat pressure from falling gold prices. Although Anglo American refused to comment, interim results are scheduled to be announced on Tuesday. It is expected that the opportunity will be […]

MONDAY, 9.00AM: A PRETORIA court has placed the Islamic bank under provisional liquidation after a Reserve Bank-appointed auditor declared that the bank is insolvent. The Islamic Bank operates in accordance with Muslim principles and charges no interest. Instead it takes up shares in any venture it lends to, and treats deposits as inputs into a […]

Ferial Haffajee At least eight women will have been raped by the time you read to the end of this page. Three years into the new democracy and a woman is still raped every 36 seconds in South Africa, perhaps even more frequently if the growing numbers of reported rapes indicate an increase in the […]

With the launch of a guild for South African animators, Tube’s cutesies on TV and Disney’s Hercules opening next week, we take a look at the world of animation Andrew Worsdale The South African Guild of Animators was officially launched a fortnight ago at this year’s Film and TV Market in Cape Town. Chairman Ron […]

Madeleine Roux : Moveable feast It’s hard to make a really bad potato salad. The two most likely ways are to undercook the potatoes and add salad cream and raw onion rings. Alas, this awful concoction is a regular at otherwise delightful school bazaars and old-fashioned braais on the platteland. Most potato salads are sublime. […]

The word scandal is so easily bandied about these days that it has lost some of its meaning. Perhaps, when contemplating the activities of Don Mkhwanazi, head of the Central Energy Fund, it is worth reminding ourselves of the Oxford English Dictionary’s definition of the word: something which occasions “general feeling of outrage and indignation”. […]