Springboks Andy Capostagno Rugby It is tempting to say what a difference a year makes, but undoubtedly there are a few pedants out there who will point out that when South Africa meet Australia in Saturday’s Tri-Nations decider at Ellis Park, it will actually be only 364 days since the two last met in a […]
Suzy Bell attends the annual celebrations of the appearance or birth of Lord Krishna, the supreme deity who revealed the Bhagavad Gita Steeped in sacred ceremony and ritual, over 50 000 Hare Krishna devotees, some from as far afield as Poland and Australia, immersed themselves in the three-day festival of Sri Krishna Janmastami last weekend. […]
Angella Johnson VIEW FROM A BROAD It was a bitterly cold night. The kind where a chill seeps into the marrow of your bones and you think your body will never be warm again. Sitting in his car, Tiny Nortje let out a lengthy sigh; he had forgotten to wear a jumper for his vigil. […]
The April 30 to May 7 edition of the Mail & Guardian carried a report headlined `NP leader in bizarre sex probe’. The National Party laid a complaint with the Press Ombudsman, Ed Linington, who decided on the matter last week. This was his decision: It is understandable that the National Party and its leader […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Pietermaritzburg | Thursday 7.00PM. THOUSANDS of African National Congress members in KwaZulu-Natal have marched to the offices of the KwaZulu-Natal Attorney General Tim McNally to demand his resignation. Members of the SA Communist Party and Congress of South African Trade Unions also joined the march. The protesters handed a memorandum to the Deputy […]
Jon Qwelane Right to Reply The trouble with the Mail & Guardian’s editor and his small coterie of executives is their apparent obsession with the fallacy that they hold copyright on what is true and correct. Pontificating from their lofty ivory tower, they seem to have forgotten (or actually never even knew) two simple points: […]
It looks like I’ll have to throw out my computer. Or at least donate it to some institution I don’t really care for. Maybe if I take it apart and give away the components, the hex on the machine itself will be broken. For the past six months, I have been unable to access the […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Pretoria | Thursday 10.00PM. THE Pretoria High Court heard on Thursday that there is irrefutable proof that the prosecution failed to disclose relevant evidence in the trial of three young men who were convicted in 1994 for murdering a woman and two children in Eikenhof, south of Johannesburg It was also submitted that […]
Brenda Atkinson On exhibition in Johannesburg An exhibition of paintings and drawings by Lionel Abrams opened at the Standard Bank Gallery last week to warm tribute from local cultural luminaries. One of these, an article by Albie Sachs in the Sunday Independent, provided a poignant and poetic insight into the man who was Sachs’s friend […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Dakar | Friday 11.00am. SOUTH African athletes have added three more gold medals to their haul at the African Athletics Championships in Dakar, Senegal, bringing their bag of gold medals to seven. Pole-valter Okkert Brits won the evnt with a vault of 5,40m, while Burger Lamprechts took the shot-put gold with a throw […]