Lemmer and the manne at the Dorsbult need to take a bit more dam with their dop. Firstly, in the M&G comment entitled “Fact out” (December 7) they refer to the “disastrous turbo charge campaign of the 1980s”. There are only three survivors of this campaign. Myself, Eglin (who has forgotten it), and a happenstance […]

Neil Manthorp in Adelaide Gary Kirsten stared at no one in particular and, as calmly as if he was ordering a club sandwich from room service, told 38 journalists and five television stations that South Africa believed they could win the series. Whats more, he admitted that that may not have been the case four […]

An alternative dining experience in Bloemfontein food Francois Fourie In a song that shares its name with the city, Valiant Swart referred to Bloemfontein as the gramadoelas, a word that roughly signifies a place far removed from civilisation. Bloemfontein has always had to bear the brunt of jokes in the more cosmopolitan cities in our […]

Q&A: PETERCOHEN Matthew Krouse Bright Blue is South African musics cutest success story, a band that has bridged form and time. Their lively jive sound, mixed with the rythms of mbaqanga, became popular on the early multiracial music circuit of the 1980s, a time of musical protest to apartheid, coming from even the most middle […]

Jaspreet Kindra The Treatment Action Campaigns crusade for the provision of anti-retroviral drugs to people living with HIV/Aids is to serve as a model for a civic campaign for the expropriation of land from absentee landlords, and of unutilised or underutilised land. Frustrated with what they consider the governments inadequate land reform policies, the South […]