Hugo Young describes his interview with President Thabo Mbeki Unlike Nelson Mandela, his successor Thabo Mbeki does not in all respects rise above history. Temporally, the apartheid era may have passed, but it remains the formative imprint on the South African psyche and the president never forgets it. A conversation with him reveals the extent […]
Poet John Mateer left South Africa at 18, but is visiting the land of his birth for the Poetry Africa Festival. He spoke to Stephen Gray John Mateer’s new collection of poems, Barefoot Speech including many about his native South Africa was launched this week at the popular Poetry Africa 2001 festival in Durban. Born […]
Andy Capostagno rugby If Saturday’s final between the Brumbies and the Sharks was the last Super 12 game then we had better cherish it. Next year, not only are there likely to be more than 12 teams in the competition, but it will probably take place midway through or at the end of the season. […]
Deon Potgieter boxing Following the Hassim Rahman-Lennox Lewis “Thunder in Africa” bill at Carnival City in April, locals have dubbed this weekend’s Jan Bergman world title challenge, the “Bliksem in Brakpan”. Bergman, one of the best local combatants never to have won a world title, gets his third crack at a crown on Saturday night. […]
Bruce Whitfield Investec’s chief investment strategist Piet Viljoen makes some astounding observations with regard to world markets. Did you know, for example, that Zimbabwe’s stock market was the world’s top performing market between March last year and March this year? Not only that, but investors in carefully chosen South African shares would have outperformed many […]
Nelson Mandela stopped to shake the hand of a young boy and asked what he wanted to be when he grew up.
boys’ movie of the week You gotta laugh. In the press release for Pearl Harbor, the new mega-budget flick about the surprise Japanese attack that destroyed the United States Pacific Fleet in 1941 and brought the US into World War II, there is a profile of producer Jerry Bruckheimer. He is described as “a film-maker […]
Timothy Wood American notes Stocks have likely seen their lows for the year and are showing value again. That’s the view of Morgan Stanley as it tracks the fastest money supply growth in 20 years even faster than the artificial increase engineered for Y2K. The research is startling because it was taken for granted that […]
Barry Streek The government has allocated R40-million to build sport facilities in disadvantaged communities, Minister of Sport and Recreation Ngconde Balfour announced in Parliament this week. This amount, Balfour says, will treble over the next three years. The programme will target all provinces and use labour-intensive methods that will create employment. According to the Department […]
We note that after the Press Ombudsman conveyed my complaint to the Mail & Guardian, the M&G afforded me an opportunity to answer an article in the M&G of April 26 to May 3 2001 under the heading: “Bogoshi still not charged after 10- year fraud investigation”. Before I lodged my complaint with the Press […]