FRIDAY, 11.00AM: SPRINGBOK scrumhalf Joost van der Westhuizen is considering leaving the Blue Bulls after playing for them for the last seven seasons, because he feels his game is suffering. Van der Westhuizen said he is fearful of losing his Bok place ahead of the 1999 World Cup finals. “At this stage I don’t have […]

revenge Barney Spender Rugby On a little side-street in downtown Biarritz there is a poorly-lit bar called Le Frre Jacques. Not an original name for a bar, but chosen perhaps because Jacques is also the name of the self-styled patron, a silver-haired, pot-bellied figure who shuffles around smiling, shaking hands with the customers, his friends, […]

FRIDAY 6.00PM: THE ‘drugs bill’ controversy took a new twist on Friday, with the revelation that a patents advisory committee to the department of trade and industry warned that the proposed legislation contravenes both local and international patent law. At a hearing by the social services committee of the National Council of Provinces, a memorandum […]

Sauces from the Far East are tickling taste buds around the world. Michael Fitzpatrick sifts the superior beans from the has-beens As taste buds begin responding favourably once again to the taste of the Far East, this time the preferred flavour enhancer is, thankfully, not monosodium glutamate but soy sauce. In Japan there’s not a […]

What with Christmas only six weeks away and the new “Unintel Inside” postal services in full delay mode, I thought it might be prudent to spend this and the next column getting in a few early suggestions for ideal Yuletide gifts. Here they are, a list of what I think are offbeat but also very […]

Maria McCloy Cond Nast debuts in South Africa next year with the lifestyle magazine House and Garden. It joins a hedgerow of similar lifestyle magazines on the local market, including Republican Press’s Garden and Home and Food and Home; Associated Magazines’s House and Leisure, Habitat and Times Media Limited’s Elle Decoration, which will be on […]

Andrew Muchineripi Boxing Is Vuyani “The Beast” Bungu hungry enough to retain his IBF junior featherweight title? This question will be answered on Saturday as he makes the 10th defence of his title against Philippine-born Australian Arnel Barotillo at the Carousel. The determination and hunger he displayed when he dethroned former American Olympic gold medallist […]

Black civil servants, traditional leaders and peasants are discovering Northern Province’s cheap source of labour, writes Mukoni T Ratshitanga Hundreds of Mozambican children are working in Northern Province households and on farms for as little as R150 a month. The child workers, some as young as 10, are employed across the province, from Madimbo near […]

Marion Edmunds Pretoria’s controversial high-security CMax prison was kept secret from key Department of Correctional Services officials until a week before it was put into operation for fear it might provoke protests. Even correctional service’s head of prisons, chief deputy commissioner of functional services Timothy Khoza, had not heard about CMax until just before it […]

The recent rape of a matriculant by four fellow scholars has highlighted that not even schools are safe any longer. Andy Duffy reports The 17-year-old Mitchells Plain schoolgirl should have been writing matric these past couple of weeks. Instead, she sits alone at home, victim of a gang rape. For legal reasons, the girl cannot […]