FRIDAY, 6.30PM: PAKISTAN’S batting collapsed in their second innings on Monday, leaving them reeling at 120/7. Asked to chase 394 for victory, the tourists were always going to have a hard task but, as in the first innings, their batting could not take the South African attack’s pressure. Allan Donald picked up two wickets, with […]
Mukoni T Ratshitanga More than 200 striking farm workers, including 26 mothers and their babies, were arrested in the Northern Province for allegedly violated a high court ruling preventing them from intimidating colleagues. Their lawyer, Phillip Sebola, said the workers included three pregnant women, five of their visitors and 33 parents who had left children […]
Andy Capostagno: Rugby It has been an interesting couple of weeks for the South African Rugby Football Union (Sarfu). First came the good news; the Super 12 season would begin with four regional teams from South Africa who, at least on the surface, would all be happily putting aside provincial differences to raise the level […]
Chris Roper: On stage in Cape Town It’s a little weird that none of the press releases for Old Wicked Songs mention that one of its defining concerns is Jewish identity. It’s almost as if the PR is mimicking the actions of Stephen Hoffman, the young piano virtuoso played by Paul du Toit, when he […]
FRIDAY, 6.00PM: SHARES on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange staged a late rally after a dull day on Friday, much to the consternation of dealers who were at a loss to explain the recovery. The all gold index slipped 2,1 points to 742,7. The industrial index rose 69,9 points to 8187,2, and the financial index, 103,3 […]
Michael Brooks At Nasa’s research labs in the heart of Silicon Valley, alchemy is back in fashion. But turning base metals into gold is an old dream; the new alchemists are trying to turn coal into diamond. Re-arranging carbon atoms to build diamond-based materials would release a range of powerful new technologies – from silicon […]
Angella Johnson The “general” who was given 1% of Virodene’s parent company for African National Congress “introductions work” claims he actually received the share as a gift from Ziggy and Olga Visser for helping them make contact with prominent black businesspeople. Documents used to attack the ANC this week for its alleged involvement in the […]
Mandy Collins Thankfully, the days when “living together” was considered a mortal sin are over. Today, many heterosexual couples choose not to get married, homosexual couples may not get married and many customary marriages are not recognised by South African law. All that adds up to quite a few couples who live within a committed, […]
Charl Blignaut: On stage in Johannesburg There’s a very cool moment in Ilse van Hemert’s Mallemeulwals when Sandra Prinsloo, playing a glamorous and world-weary leading lady in turn-of-the-century France, gazes lazily into space and proclaims, “Love does not exist.” It’s a point she gets to prove just moments later as she plunges into bed with […]
Dan Glaister in London He played a priest in True Confessions and the devil in Angel Heart, but these blasphemous associations did not stop the Vatican approaching Robert de Niro to ask him to contribute to a CD recording of the poems of Pope John Paul II. But now the invitation has been withdrawn. The […]