Andy CapostagnoCricket If this is the beginning of a new age, then it’s particularly appropriate that South Africa will go into the Newlands Test against opponents who are, in the best sense of the word, old fashioned. Sri Lanka may be the world champions in one-day cricket, b ut their approach to Test cricket, if […]
Lizeka Mda: CITY LIMITS Zoo Lake is 90 years old this year. Over time people have forgotten that the name of the park is Hermann Eckstein. Such is the city’s attachment to the murky water in the sunken lake. As a park it is not even up to scratch. If ever there was some deliberate […]
Shaun de Waal If the English shortlist of this year’s M-Net Book Prize (announced this week in Cape Town) is anything to go by, South African novelists are still dealing with this country’s history, its national narrative, whether recent or more distant. Ken Barris’s novel The Jailer’s Book portrays an apartheid-era South Africa through the […]
Pallo Jordan: CROSSFIRE ‘Twilight,” my friend Karl-Heinz explained, “is the quintessential dialectical concept. It is the transition from light to darkness, from day to night. It tells us also that both day and night are but moments in a continuing cycle during which each day i s transformed into its opposite by the passage of […]
Michael Nurok For top Kenyan runners the real competition is not international – it occurs at national level, where local runners are forced to compete against arguably the best distance runners in the world. A quick look at the International Amateur Athletics Federation World Cross Country Championship records shows Kenyan junior and senior men placing […]
Lynda Gledhill A recent study published in a medical journal suggests that DMF, the main chemical constituent of Virodene, may activate the HIV virus. South African medical experts who reviewed the article said it raises serious questions about Virodene and its potential affect on Aids patients. The study showed that several industrial solvents, including DMF […]
In less than 14 days the IBA will award the coveted free-to-air TV licence, writes Ferial Haffajee Most of the seven television bid companies were on tenterhooks this week. Many have invested millions of rands in the bid that will attract millions more in foreign investment. No matter who wins, the spin-off from the new […]
Caroline Sullivan: CD of the week It was clear after the sexcentricity of Madonna’s last studio LPs, Erotica and Bedtime Stories, that the next would have to be markedly different – and Ray Of Light (WEA) certainly is. She’s done what superstars at a crossroads do – found religion. She’s been studying the Kabbalah and […]
The Robert McBride saga has been presented as an “embarrassment” for the South African government. As time goes by it is becoming apparent that it is far more significant than that. It seems to mask a major threat to national security and McBride is seem ingly not the culprit. For those familiar with the activities […]
FRIDAY, 9.45AM: AMANDA COETZER, world women’s tennis number five, has confirmed that she will play in the $200 000 MTN Women’s Classic at the Northgate Dome from April 23-26. Coetzer was a doubtful starter for the tournament, as she was scheduled to defend her title at the Budapest Open, but a berth was kept open […]