RUGBY: Jon Swift THERE has to be a realignment when this inaugural round of rugby’s new Super 12 competition is over. The programme — even for sides from the southern hemisphere’s top three countries — is just too tough. Certainly, the inconsistencies — some old, some newly raised — need to be evaluated before any […]
Despite equivocation by its provincial leaders, it is clear the ANC in KwaZulu-Natal is trying to delay the local government elections, reports Ann Eveleth THE African National Congress’s effective call this week to delay KwaZulu-Natal’s local government elections masks serious concerns about the outcome of the poll under current conditions. Motivating for a postponement in […]
NORTH KOREA’S unsettling manoeuvres in the Demilitarised Zone (DMZ) recall a similar performance in another East Asian tension spot. Then it was Beijing, trying to ratchet up the pressure on President Lee Teng-hui in the Taiwanese elections. Now it is Pyongyang, seeking to destabilise President Kim Young-sam ahead of Thursday’s National Assembly elections. The Chinese […]
TELEVISION: Hazel Friedman NORTHERN Oz is a land of bleak and bountiful beauty; a place where people are outnumbered by sheep by about 400 to one, and Marys — make that Sheilas — really do have little lambs; where the word “wog” still means something, and attitudes towards race, religion and sexual preference make the […]
Reforms aimed at turning Zimbabwe into Africa’s first ‘newly industrialised country’ have missed their mark, argues economist Richard Saunders IN the latest round of adjustment-related shocks in Zimbabwe, government health facilities have been brought to the brink of collapse iby funding cuts which have seen Harare hospitals asking patients’ families to supply relatives with food. […]
NGOs are playing a role that government and business cannot, so it would be foolish to allow them to die for lack of funding, argues Helmut Bertelsmann Twenty-seven years ago, when I was at university, the world was inhabited by two kinds of creatures: Afrikaners, who supported the Nats, and English, who were liberal. Each […]
Rehana Rossouw ONE of Cape Town’s most notorious gang leaders, Rashied Staggie, was caught red- handed breaking into a Woodstock home last year. Last week, he walked free out of court after the charges against him were dropped. The police investigating officer could not produce the three witnesses lined up to give evidence against Staggie, […]
South African journalism gets a fresh boost next week with the participation of many of the country’s most exciting authors in the Mail & Guardian’s Special Writers Series. The newspaper has harnessed top South African talent to the difficult task of capturing and interpreting the extraordinary transition we are all living through. We have asked […]
Gaye Davis POLITICAL decisions on the reallocation of Reconstruction and Development Pro-gramme functions are expected to be made within the next two weeks. A task team set up by Deputy President Thabo Mbeki has already begun its work. Its members are Cabinet secretary Professor Jakes Gerwel, advisers to Mbeki Moss Ngoasheng and the Reverend Frank […]
CINEMA: Shaun de Waal THE Cuban film Fresa y Chocolate (Strawberry and Chocolate), directed by Tomas Gutierrez Alea and Juan Carlos Tabio, sheds a unique light on the world’s longest-running experiment in socialism. Based on Senel Paz’s novella The Wolf, the Woods and the New Man, it tells the story of the relationship of a […]