Two thirtysomethings rolled back the years at Flushing Meadows Richard Jago Pete Sampras beat Andre Agassi in a tension-filled tie-break battle to advance to the semifinals of the United States Open on Wednesday. In one of the tightest matches imaginable, with sensationally high-quality tennis from two players with 20 grand slam titles between them, Sampras […]

theatre JOHANNESBURG Matthew Krouse Agfa Theatre on the Square, Sandton Square. Harry Sideropolous appears as himself in yet another return season of the one-man show No Sugar, Canderel Please! about the ins and outs of being a fatty. Directed by Lynne Maree. Until September 15. See Theatre Pick of the Week. Tickets at Computicket or […]

Jaspreet Kindra A conservative faction in the African National Congress, linked to Peter Mokaba, is planning to dust off and table a controversial document at the upcoming alliance summit, calling for the labour movement to submit to the ANC’s political leadership. Sources said the document, titled The Role of Progressive Trade Unions, caused a “scandal” […]

If nothing else, the United Nations conference on racism has highlighted how far the world is from attaining the elusive ideal of the brotherhood of humankind. It has been paralaysed by the very ethnic, racial and national divisions it set out to try to address. As we went to press, it was still unclear whether […]

A training body has identified adult basic education as one of its priorities for social and economic upliftment Mail & Guardian Reporter The Manufacturing, Engineering and Related Services Sector Education and Training Authority (Merseta) celebrated literacy and adult learner week by handing certificates to 41 adult learners who passed the Independent Examination Board’s National Examinations […]

NO blows BARRED Sipho Seepe The anti-racism conference has offered an opportunity for the world to grapple with practical measures to ensure the eradication of all forms of discrimination and accompanying injustices everywhere in the world. This should, as United Nations secretary general Kofi Annan puts it, “help to free the present and the future […]

Mail & Guardian reporter Drew Forrest has joined the Mail & Guardian as its political editor. Forrest, formerly political editor of Business Day, joined the M&G at the beginning of the month. He will drive and oversee all aspects of the newspaper’s political coverage. Forrest worked for the M&G in its earlier incarnation as The […]

Glenda Daniels Half-a-million public service workers cast strike ballots this week in a wage dispute that masks the real tensions between labour and the state. “The wage issue is not the fundamental one here. The issues are really about human development, restructuring and retraining of staff,” says Vusi Nhlapo, president of the National Education, Health […]

Hellenic, usually very consistent, have started the season on the wrong foot Ntuthuko Maphumulo What have Hellenic done to anger the gods? That’s the question coach Steve Haupt is asking himself after a number of defeats at the beginning of the season. The Cape Town-based side, known as the “Greek gods”, are languishing near the […]

Drew Forrest Humorous, animated, speaking in a blur, Neva Makgetla seems an improbable Svengali. Yet in the aftermath of last week’s general strike, unnamed government officials have reportedly portrayed her as the minence blanche behind the Congress of South African Trade Union’s (Cosatu) hardening anti-privatisation stance. Not everyone in the government sees the federation’s public […]