New sponsors and new faces will greet cricket fans at the start of next season CRICKET: Jon Swift IN sport, very much as in life but in an abbreviated and upfront way, one year past brings with it the inevitable promise of the 12 months ahead. So it is with South African cricket. The game […]
Simon Segal A repeat performance two years later, and still the markets and critics did not learn. The sky did not fall in when Derek Keys resigned as finance minister in October 1994. The equally sudden resignation of Keys’ successor from the private sector, Chris Liebenberg, again caused an over-reaction, especially from those traders who […]
BALLET: Stanley Peskin ‘Fairy lands are fearsome too.” This line by Salman Rushdie seems to me to summarise the especial attraction that Swan Lake continues to exert after more than a hundred years in the ballet repertoire. In this great work, classical purity of line is transfigured into a means of passionate inventiveness and expression. […]
Statistics show that most deaths in KwaZulu- Natal are caused by weapons other than guns, writes Ann Eveleth Police statistics for violent deaths in KwaZulu-Natal are in stark contrast to Inkatha Freedom Party Premier Frank Mdlalose’s claims last week that most victims “are killed by bullets that come from guns, not by spears or knobkerries”. […]
Jacquie Golding-Duffy Parliament recently had the nominations for the Independent Broadcasting Authority (IBA) councillors’ posts, bar one, thrown out. The nomination which was accepted and approved by the chief whip of the African National Congress was that of Lyndall Shope-Mafole. Shope-Mafole will have her contract renewed as she is already an IBA councillor. The other […]
Everyone pitched in to make the Klein Karoo’s outreach project a success. But was it? BAFANA KHUMALO was there MIDDELPLAAS looks like the kind of place where the arrival of a train makes the front page of the local newspaper (if there is a local rag). Desolate, it lies in a valley 20km from Oudtshoorn. […]
Rehana Rossouw Government has gone cold on sculptor Danie de Jager’s “beacon of freedom” monument to liberation, freezing his hopes that his “special” relationship with President Nelson Mandela would see his 23m-high fist reach for the sky. Last week’s exclusive report in the Mail & Guardian on plans to build a gigantic monument modelled on […]
This week the Mail & Guardian suffered the indignity of a conviction in the Johannesburg Magistrate’s Court on charges of crimen injuria for attempting to place under electronic surveillance a meeting attended by the former Civil Co-operation Bureau commander Staal Burger in 1992. The magistrate fined us R3 000 and the editor an additional R1 […]
Hazel Friedman Secret liaisons with the Soweto Committee of Ten. Dangerous midnight manoeuvres through townships to meet banned activist Albertina Sisulu during the height of South Africa’s State of Emergency. This is what it took to maintain one of the best-kept secrets of the anti-apartheid struggle: a clandestine Israeli-ANC initiative — the Israeli and South […]
reshuffle Gaye Davis GOVERNMENT plans to radically revise the Reconstruction and Development Programme could face a backlash — not so much against what has been decided, but because of the lack of consultation which preceded it. Deputy President Thabo Mbeki is to appoint a task force to oversee the re-allocation of the RDP’s projects, programmes […]