BOXING: Gavin Evans THE notion of a “Great Black Hope” may seem a little odd in South Africa — particularly in a sport where blacks outnumber whites by nine to one — but boxing’s 1995 Prospect of the Year is not shy about embracing this dubious label. Courage Tshabalala shrugs his massive shoulders, nods his […]

Reg Rumney looks at the latest row about how official inflation is measured Once again the official inflation figure supplied by the government’s Central Statistical Services has been called into question. Cosatu said this week a study by the union-aligned research group Naledi confirmed its suspicions that the official inflation figure is inaccurate. The CSS […]

For new National Commissioner of Police George Fivaz,=20 dealing with the past involves a retreat to the future.=20 He spoke to Mark Gevisser=20 IN private circles, George Fivaz likes to tell the=20 following story: when he was a young policeman and a=20 post in the Security Police was considered a sharp=20 career move, he applied […]

CINEMA: Stanley Peskin THE opening shot of a lake and mountains in Lee Tamahori’s Once Were Warriors is seminal. Throughout the film it sticks in the memory as an image of a once tranquil world that has been lost. Within a space of a few seconds, the camera tracks back to reveal crowded streets and […]

THE African National Congress (ANC) voiced concern this=20 week that the Inkatha Freedom Party’s (IFP) rejection=20 of local government elections in tribal areas will deny=20 the majority of the province’s population the vote. ANC local government head in kwaZulu/Natal Mike=20 Sutcliffe said the IFP still has no plans to register=20 an estimated 2,7-million African voters […]

The Namibian government wants to dam one of Africa’s=20 last wild rivers. You’ll have to shoot us first say the=20 people who live there, reports Phillip van Niekerk THE Epupa Falls are a stunning relief after hundreds of=20 kilometres by four-wheel drive over rugged, arid=20 terrain. The Cunene River thunders through narrow=20 gorges, past bewitched-looking […]

Weekly Mail Reporter ALMOST three quarters of the executives of the Top 100 companies listed on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange have no faith in the reconstruction and development programme, the ANC’s grand plan to put right the wrongs left by apartheid. This is the finding of the annual business environment survey conducted by Unisa’s Bureau […]

CRICKET: Jon Swift THE rightful flurry of concern which has surrounded the injury to Brian McMillan is illustrative of the immense pressures on the modern day Test cricketer. At the heart of the issue which has kept everyone on tenterhooks for the past week, is the fact convenor of the national selectors Peter Pollock has […]

OPERA: Peter Klatzow OPERA-LOVERS who attended the Cape Town Opera Festival’s offering of (what appeared to be) Carmen by Bizet were in for a rude awakening. The new title — La Tragedie de Carmen — might have alerted the wary, but after a few minutes it would have been apparent that this was not your […]

The Taiwanese government is wooing MPs with free trips=20 in an attempt to retain a good relationship with South=20 Africa, writes Gaye Davis Scores of parliamentarians are believed to have enjoyed=20 all-expenses paid trips to Taiwan as part of a massive=20 campaign by that government to ensure its relationship=20 with South Africa is not downgraded […]