Paul Kirk Armscor bosses are set to make a killing by buying arms from companies of which they are shareholders or directors. This week the Mail & Guardian obtained Armscor documents showing that Armscor chair Ron Haywood is a director of another company, Dynamic Cables, which is among the front runners to supply key components […]
Robert Kirby CHANNELVISION It’s hard not to be cynical about the media response to the fatalities at Ellis Park last week. Print was bad enough, but South African television once again showed itself up as an institution almost completely devoid of dignity or restraint. I am sure that in the television newsrooms they hang a […]
This weekend sees the second leg of the MotoGP championships at Phakisa Raceway in Welkom. Gavin Foster expects fireworks Take two young men of immense talent, mix in a couple of egos the size of watermelons and set them loose on a racetrack on equal machinery and you’ve got a great sporting event. But add […]
Andy Capostagno rugby It may be too soon to start talking of another golden era in Natal and Springbok rugby, but when New Zealanders start to complain of illegal tactics you know that something radical is happening. New Zealanders like to praise South African teams for trying hard and losing. It is not in their […]
Greg Mills Second look Former United States president Bill Clinton has said: “The worst sin America ever committed about Africa was the sin of neglect and ignorance.” Under his presidency Africa’s profile rose in the US. Clinton made the first proper visit by a US president to Africa in 1998, and followed this up with […]
It is bitterly ironic that the scene of one of South Africa’s greatest sporting triumphs should also be the scene of one of its most appalling sporting tragedies. Six short years ago the images that flashed around the globe from Ellis Park were of a jubilant young nation: Nelson Mandela celebrating with Francois Pienaar as […]
Jaspreet Kindra It is boom time for the Pan Africanist Congress. The probe into the arms deal and the controversy surrounding the African National Congress chief whip Tony Yengeni’s acquisition of a Mercedes 4×4 has raised the party’s public profile tremendously. The PAC emerged from its annual policy conference last weekend with a real chance […]
Mail & Guardian reporter Last week’s soccer tragedy highlights the need for a closer inspection of rules and terms governing the broadcasting of matches still shrouded in secrecy on the nation’s airwaves. The televising of soccer matches in South Africa is an incestuous circle whose power relations are determined by the highest bidder. At the […]
Tova Herzl A Second look The 27th day of the month of Nissan, this year on April 20, was chosen by the state of Israel soon after its inception as the annual commemoration of the Holocaust and the heroic and all but futile attempts to rise up against it: it is the anniversary of the […]
A seventh league title in nine years could not ease the pain of losing in Munich and Alex Ferguson’s team might split up David Lacey and M&G reporters A championship hat-trick is still sufficiently rare in English football to be worth a second glance. Yet such are the changed priorities among top clubs that no […]