Dullah Omar has come off second-best in his battle with the gay and lesbian community, write Charl Blignaut and Swapna Prabhakaran The gay and lesbian community is claiming victory in its battle with Justice Minister Dullah Omar. The National Coalition for Gay and Lesbian Equality says Omar has dropped his opposition to the removal of […]

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 […]

THURSDAY, 6.20PM: SOUTH AFRICA ended Sri Lanka’s nine-match unbeaten record today, winning by 66 runs. But the Wills series final still lies ahead on Saturday, when the Sri Lankans, who were without three key players in this game, will make sure to avenge themselves. Hero of the match was Lance Klusener, who scored a fast […]

One of my favourite films was Being There, starring Peter Sellers. For those who have not shared in the privilege of seeing it (it was banned in the old South Africa), the story – based on a book of the same name by Jerzy Kosinski – is of a gardener who was adopted by a […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]