SOCCER Ngwako Modjadji Africa’s top guns are ready for fire when Kaizer Chiefs, Cup Winners’ Cup holders, take on the Egyptians of Al Ahly, Champions League title holders, in the African Super Cup first leg in Cairo on Friday. The two teams are rated as among the best on the continent. Al Ahly were voted […]

CRICKET John Young To hear from the man who is handing out water to the Australian cricketers at practice that he is “a little bit in awe of this team” is no surprise. When that man has 212 Test wickets to his name it rather puts the performances of Steve Waugh’s men into perspective. Merv […]

theatre Alex Sudheim Backstage, Royal hotel. The swish supper-theatre venue in Durban’s sole remaining five-star hotel hosts one-woman cabaret revue Next Stop. Starring Anne-Marie Clulow, erstwhile member of Ballyhoo and veteran of the stage, the show takes the standard trip down memory lane by including a clutch of showtunes as well as evergreens of popular […]

The fall in membership from 300000 in 1999 to 89000 is attributed to apathy among middle-class blacks and disillusionment with economic policy Jaspreet Kindra Membership of the African National Congress has dropped to less than a third of what it was three years ago, the ANC’s parliamentary caucus has been told. When approached by the […]

Marianne Merten A planned BBC documentary on baby rape in South Africa has been condemned by African National Congress MPs for potentially devaluing the rand and portraying the country as “the leader in all respects of bad things”. The documentary is set to come under close scrutiny, after parliamentarians expressed angry objections to the “parading […]

Give some credit where credit is due the Aussies are good Peter Robinson If revenge is a dish best tasted cold, Australia have stuffed themselves to bursting point this summer. It’s not yet clear whether they’ve called for a feather and a bucket, but they can’t want any more, can they? In 1970 the last […]

The Nobel Prize for the indefatigable theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking is long overdue. Not for the celebrated book he wrote, Brief History of Time, nor for the sequel The Universe In A Nutshell, but for the most significant discovery he made in 1974, about the black-hole explosisons and thus linking relativity and quantum physics. Some […]

Gavin Foster The Ugandans are here! Funded by the United Kingdom’s Department for International Development and the British Council, a delegation from the Uganda Prison Services is in Durban teaching South African Department of Correctional Services officials and prisoners how to handle HIV/Aids What better place to push HIV/Aids education than in prison. You have […]

Classic FM’s reasons for finding it hard to comply with local content quotas (“In search of local classics”, March 8) ring hollow. While it may be true that too little South African music is being recorded, there is enough music being composed and performed for a station like Classic FM to fill the 25% target […]

Jaspreet Kindra It’s official! The Democratic Alliance and the Inkatha Freedom Party are talking to each other at the highest level. Underscoring the fact that they are pondering a relationship, IFP leader Mangosuthu Buthelezi and the DA’s Tony Leon are to address a joint meeting of councillors in Durban today. In a letter to all […]