Mail & Guardian reporter Job-seeking graduates tempted to put a “willing to do anything legal for cash” ad in the classifieds, take heart: the Mail & Guardian graduate recruitment fair will make sure your expensive education takes you further than waiting tables. The fair, to be held at Cape Town’s Good Hope Centre from August […]
Suzy Bell : On show in Durban A slack-jawed, stocking-headed, beaut of a character in blue checked night-gown, Marilyn Monroe pom-pom slippers, fag in mouth, and eye firmly on the box of Premier Grand-Cru, steals the show in this thrice Vita Award-nominated play, A Coloured Place. The character is Evette. Lonely but funny and fiercely […]
Marion Jones is aiming for five golds in the 2000 Olympics. Duncan Mackay reports on an athletics phenomenon When Florence Griffith Joyner set world records for the 100m and 200m a decade ago experts predicted they were so far ahead of their time that they would stand for 50 years. But the emergence of Marion […]
Keith Henderson : Live in Johannesburg The queue for the Springbok Nude Girls outside the Roxy Rhythm Bar, Melville, was the kind which makes you feel it would be a lot easier to turn around and go home. There was probably at least one thing on television last Saturday that you could’ve fooled yourself into […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Friday 11.00AM. STATE herald Fred Brownell said on Thursday that former South African Rugby Football Union boss Louis Luyt cannot claim the Springbok emblem to be his own. Luyt earlier charged that the emblem belongs to him, saying: “It was designed by me, it belongs to me.” Brownell said that a […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Thursday 8.00PM. AFTER losing to South Africa by 177 runs in their one-day match on Wednesday, Essex have sought to beef up their team ahead of the three-day “re-match” starting at Chelmsford on Friday. Seamer Mark Ilott and middle-order batting star Ronnie Irani have been called up to strengthen a line-up […]
Ferial Haffajee and Stuart Hess You can teach an old dog new tricks, as a legion of former apartheid spies, torturers and key dirty-tricks operatives are showing. Many are the frontmen of business’s push into Africa and are leaders in the private security industry, which is worth billions of rands. A former general, for example, […]
Ed Vulliamy in Washington : Basketball After six Naitional Basketball Association (NBA) championships – the latest won in an epic final series against Utah Jazz last month – Americans are accustomed to gravity-defying acrobatics from the Chicago Bulls. But not of this kind. Last Thursday afternoon, the Bulls managed a contortion which beats almost any […]
The continuing battle over alleged electoral fraud could plunge the region into turmoil, writes William Boot Opposition parties in Lesotho this week expressed “great shock” at a “serious rumour alleging a possible resolution by some people in high places or quarters to banish from Lesotho His Majesty the King and declare a state of emergency”. […]
Douglas Rushkoff : online Gathered together beneath the chandeliers of the Beverly Hilton’s main ballroom earlier this year, Hollywood’s best and brightest (dressed, anyway) had paid about $1 500 each to rub elbows with the interactive media-makers who would soon, they feared, replace them. Meanwhile, a demonstration floor crowded with technology from Compaq and other […]