John Young If your idea of a braai is burnt chops and dodgy wors over stuttering flames, then a universe-expanding experience awaits you at this weekend’s Chateau Libertas World Barbecue Championships, to be held at Canal Walk, Century City, in Cape Town. Barbecued musselcracker tandoori, rooibos-smoked tomatoes, waterblommetjie risotto and a prune, bacon and corn […]

Glenda Daniels Loyalty to a company, together with lifetime employment, is a thing of the distant comfortable past. This worldwide trend is particularly pertinent in South Africa where retrenchments are rife. More than one-million jobs have been lost over the past decade according to the Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu). But managers still […]

analysis Pallo Jordan Hegel once wrote that a political party becomes real only when it becomes divided. This dialectical statement will strike some as odd, but its profundity lies precisely in its paradoxical nature. Provided that it is not brain dead, as a political movement grows, its inner contradictions inevitably begin to unfold. But as […]

Hoping for the prevalence of principle in politics is a bit like expecting the lion to lie down with the lamb: it’s a lovely idea, but lousy as a prediction. We on this newspaper, however, persist in the naive hope that principle will prevail; and we have not hesitated to make of it a demand. […]

BOOK REVIEW Peter Robinson JONTYINPICTURES(with text by Andy Capostagno) Viking This is, as the title suggests, Jonty Rhodes in pictures. Jonty with his shirt on, Jonty with his shirt off, Jonty batting, Jonty fielding and, a rare one this, Jonty fielding. In essence it’s a book for members of the Jonty Rhodes Fan Club (those […]

Tony Leon’s arrogant treatment of the NNP drove it into the ANC’s arms, argues Drew Forrest In the highly fluid aftermath of the New National Party’s withdrawal from the Democratic Alliance, it is impossible to say how much damage has been inflicted on the multiparty cause in South Africa. But if there is significant damage, […]

CRICKET Neil Sonnekus Back in the Seventies there was a heavily Expressionist-type style of black art in magazines like Staffrider and on record covers by the likes of one of our greatest bands, Sakhile. It was deeply political in subject matter but highly original in conception. To reconstruct an image from memory and imagination: a […]

spirit level Cedric Mayson The telephone exchange in Heaven has been suffering from overload. Both United States President George W Bush and Osama bin Laden have been using their hot line to God on an hourly basis. Israelis and Palestinians both report direct contact on high. Christians and Muslims in Nigeria are fighting for fibre-optic […]

Khadija Magardie “It is said the measure of the quality of a democracy is the state of its prisons but I say it is through the diversity of its media,” says veteran journalist Anton Harber, the newly appointed head of the University of the Witwatersrand’s School of Journalism. Although in terms of diversity Harber gives […]

Mungo Soggot The family of African National Congress stalwart Thomas Nkobi has implicated ANC heavyweight Joe Modise in an allegedly fraudulent ploy by a businessman embroiled in the arms scandal to use Nkobi’s name in bids for defence contracts. Shabir Shaik, whose Nkobi Holdings company was raided last month by the Scorpions as part of […]