TUESDAY, 2.00PM: PAUL ADAMS, with his best first-class analysis of 7/69, placed Western Province securely on track to give Griquas the Supersport series wooden spoon, beating them by an innings and 45 runs at Newlands on Monday. Province scored their second win in seven outings, thanks to their international wrist spinner. Last week Adams set […]

TUESDAY, 12.00NOON: THE United States is forcing South African steel producers to sell steel plate exported to the US at prices far higher than those allowed to Russia, China and Ukraine. The US domestic steel industry is heavily protected by quotas and “floor prices” imposed on foreign steel producers, preventing them from undercutting the US […]

TUESDAY, 12.30AM: SOUTH African Rugby Football Union president Louis Luyt was accused of making racist remarks about former Sarfu vice-president Brian van Rooyen, author of the Van Rooyen dossier about the state of South African rugby, when he took the stand in the Pretoria High Court on Monday. Luyt was confronted with allegations that he […]

TUESDAY, 1.30PM: THE Southern African Development Community, currently chaired by South Africa, has asked the international community to write off the debt of its member states. The debt burden is retarding the SADC programme of regional integration. At a debate on the debt crisis in Sweden, SADC executive secretary Kaire Mbuende said as SADC debt […]

MONDAY, 6.30PM: THE financial index on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange was pushed to its ninth consecutive record high on Monday, and its good figures were emulated by the industrial and all share indices. Gold shares, however, were held down by the poor gold price. The financial index’s fever was maintained by rumours of mergers and […]

MONDAY, 6.30PM: PAKISTAN, who were floundering with their score on 264/8 at the tea break in the first Test at the Wanderers in Johannesburg, are battling grimly on. The Pakistanis are hanging in there at 311/9. MONDAY, 11.00AM: PAKISTAN will resume their innings on Monday at the Wanderers in Johannesburg with their score on 106/4, […]

The Mail & Guardian announces two new features. From this week we are launching a new political column, Crossfire, which is to be written on a rotational basis by some of the leading commentators in the country. In the first Crossfire, Jeremy Cronin asks under what conditions a merger between the African National Congress and […]

fiction Jeremy Cronin: Crossfire During the past months there has been kite- flying around the idea of a merger between the African National Congress and the Inkatha Freedom Party. Peter Mokaba, in the flurry of interventions he made prior to the ANC annual conference in December, punted the idea. The IFP’s Mangosuthu Buthelezi slapped down […]

Mail & Guardian reporter Tony O’Reilly spends as he earns – liberally. When the estate of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis came under the hammer at Sotheby’s two years ago, O’Reilly paid $2,6- million for a 40-carat diamond engagement ring given to the former first lady by Aristotle Onassis. The former Ireland rugby star-turned-ketchup king was last […]

Monica Hilton-Barber : Slice of life The golden glow of goodwill between different South Africans may have dimmed and the initial dream of racial integration become more distant since the initial euphoria following the elections four years ago. But the rainbow is still bright and beautiful in many parts of the country. Number 23 Van […]