TUESDAY, 11.30AM: PAUL Adams showed he is still in good form when he destroyed the Eastern Province batting with a haul of six wickets for 90 runs to help Western Province achieve a 123-run Supersport Series victory at Newlands on Monday. Adams’ figures would have been even more impressive, career best in fact, had ‘keeper […]

MONDAY, 12.30PM: HELLENIC beat African Wanderers 3-2 at Kings Park soccer stadium on Sunday to ease their worries of relegation. The defeat further compounded the woes of Wanderers, who are facing serious relegation trouble. Hellenic were 1-2 down at half time, but managed to score twice in the second half without reply before a paltry […]

Andrew Worsdale Domestic war film of the week In 1973 director Ang Lee (The Wedding Banquet, Eat Drink Man Woman and Sense and Sensibility) hadn’t set foot in the United States and couldn’t speak English. So it’s deeply paradoxical that he has directed a perceptive, poignant and sharp movie about the US during the era […]

Lynda Gledhill Compassion, caring and commitment has kept a non-governmental organisation in Pietermaritzburg alive despite a severe shortage of donor funds. While other organisations close down when the funding tap is switched off or fail to report properly to funders when extraneous spending occurs, Winnie Kubayi has kept her project alive and manages to report […]

Jack Schofield Three leading members of the computer industry, several United States-based telephone companies and two dozen other suppliers got together at last week’s ComNet conference in Washington DC to back a new communications standard that works 30 to 50 times faster than today’s modems. The new system, called DSL Lite, also enables phone companies […]

Feminist hero or sex-fantasy figure? An icon for our times or archetypal goddess? Richard Kelly Heft discusses Barbie’s appeal She’s disparaged by feminists, studied by academics and is a subject of artists. Two Barbie dolls are sold every second of every day and now she is a cultural icon of our times. Barbie can inspire […]

Moi Lucy Hannan in Nairobi Dismay at recent political killings overshadowed the opening session of the Kenyan Parliament this week. Both sides of the house stamped, shouted and jeered, and opposition MPs waved placards protesting at “genocide” and “a legacy of killing”. More than 100 people have been killed in Rift Valley province since January […]

Palme d’Or winner A Taste of Cherry is now showing on the Cannes mini-festival. Dinah Arnott introduces its brilliant director. The award of a Cannes Palme d’Or to A Taste of Cherry, a film by Abbas Kiarostami, will hopefully bring the work of this astounding Iranian director greater prominence. From a background in painting and […]

More quietly than the cricketers ever could, a West Indian diplomatic and trade delegation recently came and went. Anti- apartheid South Africans and West Indians have longstanding cultural, political and – – through Cuba — military links. In Trinidad, when rebel cricketer Bernard Julien returned from a sanctions-busting tour, ordinary folks literally spat on him […]

Stefaans Brummer Evidence against Gauteng Premier Mathole Motshekga mounted this week when it emerged that the United States embassy in Pretoria had serious reservations about his administration of donor money in 1989. The Mail & Guardian earlier reported that the Irish organisation Trocaire, a conduit for European Union donor money, severed links with Motshekga’s National […]