South Africa’s semifinal opponents, France, have power and flair, but they don’t always seem able to use these RUGBY: Jon Swift IN many ways the World Cup semifinal facing South Africa on Saturday will be something of a relief. Against the French at Kings Park in Durban there is the first real chance, since the […]
Shadley Nash The greasy details of rivalry between two take-away pizza traders emerged unwittingly in an unlikely place this week — the rape trial of a self-confessed The Port Elizabeth Supreme Court — sitting for the rape trial against satanist Frans du Toit who, in a third rape confession, admitted to raping a 20-year-old woman […]
A decision will soon be made on the fallout of the Greg Blank case, reports Jacques Magliolo THE Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE) will decide within the next few weeks whether to charge stockbroking firms and individuals implicated in the well publicised 1991 R35- million scam, say two reliable sources within the exchange. These insiders say […]
Reg Rumney When is insurance not insurance? When it is offered by a company not registered as an insurer, of course. The Department of Trade and Industry (DTI), in its 1994 annual report, states that it has submitted to an attorney general (AG) for possible further action the case of a furniture company which has […]
Jane Starfield DIVIDED SISTERHOOD: Race, Class and Gender in the South African Nursing Profession, by Shula Marks (Witwatersrand University Press, R82,00) SHULA Marks’ study of the South African nursing profession is as pioneering as her other monographs and collections of essays have been. Her attention to gender was notably voiced in Not Either an Experimental […]
Rehana Rossouw People campaigning for the new South African Constitution to promote a Christian state are political opportunists trying to reinstate minority baasskap, said African National Congress MP Carl Niehaus this week . Niehaus — who has a theology degree — was responding to the recent march on Parliament by several thousand conservative Christains demanding […]
Movable Feast Humphrey Tyler THE first thing you do when you arrive at the Imperial Hotel in Pietermaritzburg in KwaZulu/Natal is wonder why on earth you didn’t bring your horse. This has nothing to do with the food. It is the early colonial atmosphere. (Actually, I don’t ride horses. Horses give me hay fever.) But […]
Oh, dear. Rusty Evans, dinosaur-general of the Department of Foreign Affairs, is upset with the Mail & Guardian. Did we get the facts wrong? Did we not do our homework? No, it’s much simpler than that. We reported on a conference and workshop where his department came under attack. But listen to his words. “I […]
Iron-age sites reveal some astonishing artefacts — and shatter some dearly held beliefs, reports Bruce Around the time William the Conqueror was gloating over his victory against Britain in 1066, Iron-Age communities on the banks of the Limpopo River were bartering gold and ivory with Swahili traders for glass beads from Egypt, cotton from India […]
Mick Cleary predicts that Will Carling’s side will adopt a sober approach to halt the All Blacks in their semifinal on ROB ANDREW’S kick fell to earth immediatley. Quite how long it takes England to come down to earth is probably the key to whether they can beat the All Blacks in Sunday’s The team […]