Steve Morris : Rugby There is a distinct feeling abroad that South African rugby, while it has moved up a step on the international level, is suffering from stress fractures at home. It is amazing that the only coach the Blue Bulls could settle on was Eugene van Wyk, a man they had already rejected […]

Gustav Thiel : Cricket Professional sportsmen never want to retire. If they had their way, they would play into their graves. Cricketers are no exception, which is why a bunch of the world’s top players of yesteryear are now considering starting a seniors league similar to those already flourishing in golf and tennis. Talk of […]

blood Robert Armstrong : Rugby As teenagers New Zealanders learn that rugby union is a potent symbol of their nationhood. And by early manhood those who have made the grade are regarded as icons in every town, from Whangarei to Invercargill. When England face the All Blacks on Saturday they must come to terms with […]

THURSDAY, 11.00AM: The emigration tide seems to have turned, according to latest Central Statistical Service fgures. Immigration and emigration figures released on Wednesday show that less people are leaving, and more people are entering the country. The figures show a 24% decline in the number of self-declared emigrants from South Africa during July 1997 compared […]

We profile the four winners of the 1998 Standard Bank Young Artist Award Aubrey Sekhabi, 28-year-old winner of the 1998 Standard Bank Young Artist Award for Drama, is “a relentless, tenacious spirit”, says Dan Robbertse of the Performing Artists Workers Equity. “He’s been doing great work in North West province as drama director with very […]

FRIDAY, 8:00AM: A LABOUR court has ordered the striking Harmony mine workers back to work from this morning. Mine management has also warned that strikers who forcibly evicted ‘official’ union shaft stewards from their offices will face charges. THURSDAY, 11:00AM: THE National Union of Mineworkers has blamed Harmony mine management for a strike by an […]

Madeleine Wackernagel The world’s central banks hold 28 years’ worth of gold supply, and signs are they are not going to step out of the market in a hurry. First Australia, then Russia and the Swiss, and now the Germans have sold down their reserves in the past few months. Other European central banks could […]

Are unions losing sight of the fight for workers’ rights in their quest for investments, asks Charlene Smith In the rush to tap into the R250-billion held in retirement funds, are trade union investment companies at risk of selling their souls? If they manage to overcome the barriers employers are almost certain to set up, […]

Andy Duffy Two Western Cape police officers are likely to be charged for their role in arming vigilantes on the Cape Flats, putting the police on course for a potentially embarrassing and divisive court case. The charges follow a sting operation last year in which police handed back a dud hand grenade to People Against […]

An all-consuming family man Stefaans Brmmer When Indonesians celebrated 40 years of freedom from Dutch colonial rule in 1985, the independence day parade was led by a float depicting President Suharto driving the tractor of his country’s economic progress. Thousands of school children sang a specially composed hymn to the “Father of Development”, an official […]