If the Brumbies lose, South Africa will host its first Super 12 final Andy Capostagno It is not often that South Africans shout for an Australian team, but it will happen on Saturday. A win for the Reds against the Brumbies in Canberra will guarantee for the first time that the final of the Super […]
Lyall Green ‘Five members of the Springbok cricket team were found smoking dagga in celebration of their historic test victory over the West Indies,” the newsreader blurted out the headline story. Dagga is such a lovely South African word, which people use with glee and the rough intonation it demands every time anyone is found […]
Paul Kirk The newly appointed director of Durban Metro Police, Henry Manzi, has been investigated in a fraud probe totalling nearly R1-million. Manzi’s fortunes are going from bad to worse. He is also accused of having charges relating to traffic offences committed by his uncle, Jabulani Manzi, dropped. The Mail & Guardian has learned from […]
Julie Burchill Body Language I don’t “do”, in this order: Germans, blond men, sportsmen or men called Boris. (“Give it to me, Boris!” You couldn’t, could you?) But, should I ever run into the blond German tennis ace Boris Becker, I may well or would, if I weren’t a married woman grab him by his […]
Richard Williams For the second time in five days the sun shone on Liverpool’s attempt to win a cup final, this time breaking through in the early evening after cloud and drizzle had shrouded Westphalia all afternoon. Coming 16 years after the Heysel tragedy cast a deep shadow over one of Europe’s leading clubs, this […]
David Beresford another country The defeat of the recent initiative to have Cape Town’s cathedral corner Adderley and Wale streets named after former presidents Nelson Mandela and FW de Klerk comes as a great relief. Attempts to memorialise the living always smack of self-interest. Such tributes are also tainted by an appearance of indecent haste, […]
whipping boy ‘Horseracing on its last legs” screamed headlines in The Citizen the day after newspapers announced the closure of Newmarket racecourse in Alberton. Yes, it was a slow news week, but the story is not entirely trumped up. Until recently, the cliques that controlled racing from their private dining rooms and bars, while charging […]
Bruce Whitfield The JSE Securities Exchange has found sufficient evidence to warrant an investigation by the Financial Services Board (FSB) into insider trading at listed furniture retailer Profurn. It has handed its file containing the outcome of its own probe into the allegations to the FSB, but it could take several months before shareholders discover […]
Guy Willoughby theatre Evita Bezuidenhout, aka Pieter-Dirk Uys, has been so much a part of our cultural landscape for 20 years as ever-present as death, corruption and taxes that it comes as a surprise to discover that (according to Uys’s programme notes) s/he has not had her own stage show since 1990. Perhaps that tells […]
Evidence wa ka Ngobeni The South African National Gambling Board, the statutory body charged with the regulation of the gambling industry, has spent hundreds of thousands of rands on developing legislation aimed at regulating Internet casinos. The gambling board confirmed this week it paid more than R900 000 to an Australian firm, DGS, to develop […]