Lynda Loxton The South African wine industry is flourishing. Exports are booming and heavy rains in the Cape hold out promise of a good crop. The only fly in the ointment remains the antiquated system through which KWV continues to dominate the price farmers get for their wine. Distillers Corporation chairman Boetie van Zyl was […]

Cinema: Justin Pearce It is irksome to use words like “charming” when describing a film — but in the case of Eat Drink Man Woman no other adjective quite suffices to sum up a movie which is at once so seductive and so hollow. As the yin-yang oppositions of its title suggest, this film by […]

BLACK pride returned to Washington on Monday in the =20 shape of the Million Man March. The contrast between =20 the last time such civil rights numbers assembled and =20 now could not be greater. =20 Three decades ago the great black leader, Martin Luther =20 King, warned his people “not to thirst for freedom […]

IN THE DOCK: Former Italian prime minister Silvio =20 Berlusconi, committed to trial in Milan on corruption =20 JAILED: Keith Moore, Sting’s former accountant, =20 sentenced to six years for stealing Stg 6-million from =20 the rock star=20 HONOURED: Cape Times editor Mogsien Williams named =20 Sowetan Journalist of the Year at a Press Freedom […]

There are many talented claimants to the No 8 jersey in the Springbok team, but a specialist flanker has been selected to fill that position Rugby: Jon Swift WE HAVE reached the ridiculous situation in this country where we have five international players at eighthman: two of them discards, one on the bench, another back […]

Mamphela Ramphele has trod a path from black =20 conciousness activist in the 1970s to the top of the =20 academic and corporate world in the 1990s. She is =20 tipped as the next vice-chancellor of the University of =20 Cape Town, sits on the board of Anglo American and =20 helps run the Nelson […]

The complex process of merging six spy agencies =20 has created more internal problems for the National =20 Intelligence Agency. Eddie Koch reports=20 South Africa’s chief spook threatens to blow away his =20 wife and kids in their Pretoria home. The mysterious =20 death of another top intelligence agent exposes =20 ideological differences that will […]

IT wasn’t just the rain that George Smiley missed in =20 Johannesburg. It was also the knowledge that the spying =20 trade would never be the same again. =20 With his hands wrapped around a balloon glass of 10-=20 year-old KWV, and his body enveloped in the soft =20 cushions of a large leather armchair, […]

Gaye Davis=20 PAST and present National Party ministers and heads of =20 former bantustans could be called to testify before the =20 top-level probe into corruption and malpractice by the =20 former South African and homeland regimes announced by =20 President Nelson Mandela this week.=20 Presidential representative Joel Netshitenzhe said the =20 commission was expected […]

The only change in the IFP’s new draft constitution for =20 KwaZulu-Natal is that ‘state’ has been changed to =20 ‘kingdom’, writes Ann Eveleth=20 KWAZULU-NATAL’S constitutional process is going around =20 in circles, if the draft constitution tabled this week =20 by the Inkatha Freedom Party is anything to go by.=20 Far from reflecting progress […]