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 […]

It seemed like the bad old days were back in the Free State this week when a white man was fined for beating a worker, writes Ann Eveleth A 38-year-old Free State farmer grinned in the Welkom Regional Court last Friday as he paid a R3 000 fine for beating and chaining a shepherd to […]

Steve Morris : Rugby As expected, Louis Luyt has shaken off the hands which would grasp the tiller of South African rugby administration and confirmed himself as the kingpin of the South African Rugby Football Union (Sarfu) by retaining his presidency. He did so in his accustomed imperious manner, ridding himself in the process of […]

FRIDAY, 4:30PM: THREE Pretoria prostitutes charged with running a brothel have called on the Pretoria High Court to refer their case to the Constitutional Court because they argue that the Sexual Offences Act discriminates against women. Their call comes in a week when the Gauteng provincial executive has given its support to legalising prostitution, sparking […]

hoping for peace Angella Johnson Alhaji Ahmad Tejan Kabbah was about to step into the shower before setting off to the mosque for his morning prayers, when he switched on the special radio he always carried to monitor military activities and heard that a group of soldiers had taken control of Sierra Leone; he was […]

FRIDAY, 8.45AM: SPRINGBOK selectors have named the squad to play in the game against the French Barbarians in Biarritz on Tuesday. Coach Nick Mallett selected Western Province star Percy Montgomery to play at fullback — his natural position. “Until last year Percy played virtually all of his rugby at fullback. He has been moved around […]

The South African navy is underequipped, unappreciated and underfinanced writes Donald G McNeil Until a year ago, the strike craft SAS Joe Masego was called the Kobie Coetsee. Coetsee, the former minister of defence, is still alive but the South Africa that named ships after apartheid-era leaders is not. Joe Masego, a corporal in a […]

Wally Mbhele President Nelson Mandela travels to Mpumalanga this weekend and is expected to douse the blazing row sparked by his reported insistence that provincial Premier Mathews Phosa step down from the African National Congress race for deputy presidency to make way for KwaZulu-Natal leader Jacob Zuma. And as a compromise, Phosa is expected to […]

The local branch of a church probed for fraud was behind a bid for Capital Radio, writes Suzy Bell Quima Investments last week failed to win its licence bid for Capital Radio because it neglected to reveal vital information to the Independent Broadcasting Authority (IBA), including details of a controversial backer. The consortium was slapped […]

Susannah Barron and Charl Blignaut : Style What links … DJ Bob Mabena and your granddad? Supermodel Naomi Campbell and the mother of the bride? Kwaito fly girls Aba Shante and the golfing fraternity? Yes, they all wear those hats with the cute kangaroo logo. Hat company Kangol has come a very long way indeed […]