Matthew Engel The current election is one that President Moi ought to lose. Coming from a small tribe, the Kalenjin, he has no natural power base and the three main tribes – the Kikuyu, Luo and Luhya – are all against him. To win on the first ballot, Moi needs a plurality rather than a […]

FRIDAY, 9.10AM: DOCTOR Khumalo made his comeback debut for Kaizer Chiefs and inspired the “Phefeni Glamour Boys” to a 2-0 victory over Wits University in a Premier Soccer League match in front of close to 25 000 spectators last night. The game was won in the middlefield where Khumalo did all the running and passing. […]

V Roger Prabasarkar : Cricket Despite two wonderful victories against Pakistan and the West Indies on Monday and Tuesday, South Africa still had not made certain of a place in the final of the quadrangular one-day tournament, Hansie Cronje’s assertion to the contrary at the post-match prize giving function notwithstanding. With so many accidents befalling […]

track Madeleine Wackernagel : TAKING STOCK Mahathir Mohamed, the Malaysian premier, was right in criticising the currency speculators at this week’s G15 meeting, but for the wrong reason. Since the crisis first struck in Thailand in July, the economies of South-East Asia have borne the brunt of the currency and stock-market fallout. Much of that […]

Egyptian director Youssef Chahine recently won nine out of the 14 categories in the M- Net All-Africa Film Awards with his film Destiny. He spoke to Janet Smith A journalist could gush like a desert oil well after meeting Egyptian film director Youssef Chahine. He’s charming enough to persuade a glass of wine to replace […]

Marion Edmunds The Department of Defence wants to cut the army’s crucial crime-fighting activities, claiming its thinning resources should be concentrated on reshaping the defence force. Officials say the military cannot sustain its support for the police – which costs it around R1,2-billion a year – and its funds should be spent instead on strengthening […]

Charl Blignaut A decade ago, when South African pay channel M-Net was launched, the company had already attracted its fair share of critics. There were those who complained that the Hollywood-crazy, sport-obsessed, money-making television service was not really interested in an African broadcasting agenda and was not intending to invest in much local television production. […]

THURSDAY, 9.00PM: THE National Assembly has approved the controversial employment Bill after almost a year of controversy, by 228 votes to 78. Inkatha and the Pan Africanist Congress joined the ANC in supporting the bill, opposed by the other parties. Cosatu has raised objections that its 49 proposed amendments to the bill, agreed to with […]

Rowley Leigh : Moveable feast Although I first ate and enjoyed polenta at a dinner party many years ago, I never got around to cooking it myself until the current vogue first started in the early Nineties. But the stuff I came up with in the kitchen was hardly the stuff of dreams, and came […]