young guns GOLF: Jon Henderson AGE may be the opponent that eventually beats even the greatest champions, but in Nick Faldo’s case you suspect that it will have to go to the fifth hole of a playoff and then be made to sink a “gimme” put from five centimetres. Based on the 80 major championships […]

SOCCER: Andrew Muchineripi Star defender Mark Fish has been persuaded to make one more appearance for Orlando Pirates, and it could be his most vital yet AN important occasion was given added significance this week when Mark Fish agreed to don the black and white one last time and play for Orlando Pirates in the […]

Mungo Soggot THE truth commission could be paralysed by being forced to operate like a normal court after the Cape Supreme Court’s decision this week to allow retired policemen access to truth commission documents, lawyers said this week. They said the decision could set a precedent which opened the gap for other judgments to order […]

Lyndon Johnson, when asked why he kept J Edgar Hoover on as head of the FBI, made the famous observation that “I’d much rather have that fellow inside my tent pissing out than outside my tent pissing in”. It is a philosophy which has governed President Nelson Mandela’s attempts to handle Chief Mangosuthu Buthelezi for […]

IN February of 1994, two months before the elections, I returned to South Africa. Accompanied by a friend, I embarked on a four- week journey to explore the Northern Cape, Namaqualand and the Karoo, areas which have always fascinated me. Because I have lived abroad for so many years, my perceptions and expectations were influenced […]

The SABC is considering commissioning a business programme from Times Media Limited. Is this a poor reflection of the broadcaster’s own economics desk? Jacquie Golding-Duffy reports The SABC, with no immediate plans to develop its own business show, is considering commissioning a new business programme from Times Media Limited (TML), whose Business Day Tonight contract […]

Admiration for Archbishop Desmond Tutu goes from strength to strength as we watch him setting about the Herculean task of cleaning out the Augean stables of apartheid-era atrocities. But even as we applaud him, we cannot help but worry about him. “Arch”, as he would have us know him, has made no secret of his […]

For some people just telling their story is a comfort, but the truth commission is finding it harder to solve some of the other problems, writes Eddie Koch TWO very different people walked into Johannesburg’s Central Methodist Church this week and, beneath the stained-glass images of Christ on the way to Calvary, sat to tell […]

Moyiga Nduru A banana war between two of Somalia’s main warlords is under way over the control of the lucrative banana export trade. The forces of General Mohamed Farah Aideed, the self-proclaimed president of Somalia, are pitted against the militiamen of his former financier, Ali Hassan Osman “Atto”. Aideed needs the revenues, estimated at around […]

The good form of Natal and Northern Transvaal and the demise of Transvaal point to changes in the national team RUGBY: Jon Swift THERE was, for new national coach Andre Markgraaff, something of the old good news, bad news cliche in the way Natal took Transvaal apart in the Workers Day Super 12 mauling at […]