The United Cricket Board is taking the game to the people, and not just South Africa’s people but to other countries in Africa as well CRICKET: Jon Swift THERE is a certain strangeness about the notion that international cricket will be played at Paarl. In the recent South African experience the Boland town is a […]

Rowan Callaghan Bayathenga 2000 has joined the call for increased local content, only this time the issue is not broadcasting but support for locally manufactured goods. Bayathenga — meaning all the people are buying — is a section 21 company which plans to embark on a massive “buy South Africa” campaign to promote increased support […]

RUGBY: Jon Swift WHO would have imagined on that tumultous day Francois Pienaar held the William Webb Ellis trophy aloft at Ellis Park that the domestic competition could have come close to matching it in intensity? Few would have chanced a wager on it. And yet we have been graced with just such a domestic […]

This year’s national Vita Awards for theatre celebrate the past, argues MATTHEW KROUSE THE FNB Vita National Theatre Awards, like any extended family gathering, pay homage to founding fathers, and stroke their fledglings, encouraging them to follow traditional paths. The 1994/1995 award-winners are testimony to a developing consensus between fundis, audiences and practitioners. Apparently, what […]

SWIMMING: Julian Drew WITH a series of brilliant performances this year 20-year-old swimmer Penny Heyns from Durban has swum herself into contention as one of the favourites to win gold at next year’s Olympic Games in Atlanta. As early as April at the national championships in Durban she showed her intentions for the year with […]

Coup in the Comoros: Mercenary Colonel Bob Denard=20 makes his final try for an island retirement — but=20 his comfort is short-lived as French troops arrive.=20 For South African tourists, the Comoros are a=20 pleasure-seeker’s paradise but, outside the hotel=20 precincts, an explosive mix of poverty and=20 political infighting threatens constant crisis,=20 writes Eddie Koch=20 […]

Samantha Weinberg, author of a biography of Bob=20 Denard, looks at the background to his latest=20 LAST Thursday, ”Colonel” Bob Denard rose from the=20 ashes of his mercenary career. Bolder and ballsier=20 than ever, he raised a finger in the air to the=20 French judicial system, political pundits and=20 keepers of the ”new world order”. […]

Itumeleng oa Mahabane=20 South African Airways said after inquiries this=20 week by the Mail & Guardian that it would withdraw=20 ”soft porn” movies — one a Playboy Entertainment=20 production appropriately titled ”Cover Me” — shown=20 on the airline’s first and business classes.=20 SAA head of corporate relations Felicia Mabuza=20 Suttle said it was not the […]

Ann Eveleth A WOODEN ladder fashioned from tree branches leans across the trunk of the old gum tree where the lifeless bodies of Vitalis Mthembu and Muzikawubanga Sitholi dangled until the police arrived on Wednesday last The branch above bears no scars from the ordeal, but three rivulets of dried blood down a rock shaded […]

Parliamentarians may soon be governed by a code of ethics, reports Gaye Davis A CODE of ethics could be awaiting parliamentarians when they return for the new session in February, following agreement this week by a majority of parties that members’ financial and other interests should be But the code will initially be governed not […]