After the drama of the Test series, the Proteas go on a whistle-stop one-day tour of the islands Peter Robinson With the highbrow stuff out of the way now, South Africa and the West Indies go downmarket for the next two-and-a-half weeks in a seven-match one-day international series that starts in Jamaica on Saturday before […]
Michelle Matthews Alliance Franaise, 155 Loop Street. Steve Daly, a twotime Emmy Awardwinning documentary producer for CNN, presents images from Nepal and Tibet. Until April 31. Tel: 423 5699. Arts Association of Bellville, Library Centre, Carel van Aswegen Street, Bellville. Cristina Bryer holds a ceramics exhibition, called Sacred Geometry, in the Vestibule Gallery. The association […]
Alex Sudheim Art Engine Studio, Lost World nursery, Ramsgate. This exciting new art space on the South Coast of KwaZuluNatal opens its inaugural exhibition on Friday April 27. The Children’s Story is a remarkable and inspiring exhibition of 100 images created by children in the ghetto of Terezin in World War II Prague. Appropriately opening […]
Thuli Nhlapo Angry residents of Msawawa informal settlement near Kya Sands this week expressed their disappointment in the justice system and vowed to take the law into their own hands. This follows a shocking incident two weeks ago where Douglasdale police allegedly set a suspected rapist free, claiming he jumped through a window. “The women […]
Tracy McVeigh Body Language It could be something in the cocoa or too much titillation on Coronation Street: Britain’s pensioners are shedding their cardigans and getting down to it. But the men and women who began the sexual revolution as twentysomethings in the late 1950s are not only finding new passion and partners in their […]
What would the South African tourist industry be selling today if it didn’t have the relics of apartheid to offer? Matthew Krouse Marketing brutality is good for tourism. The revenue a country can take from promoting understanding of its darkest hours can certainly rival what it can cream off its sex industry and its natural […]
Mail & Guardian reporters The Cabinet signed off South Africa’s R50-billion arms deal despite being warned of serious repercussions the buying splurge could have on the country’s economy. In August 1999, the Department of Finance stopped just short of advising the Cabinet not to proceed with the package on the scale proposed because of the […]
Highlights from the Department of Finance briefing presented to Cabinet ministers in August 1999: l “The South African government is fully exposed to the depreciation of the rand against foreign currencies, which account for about 75% of the total purchase amount. There is no effective means of hedging the currency risk inherent in the procurements.” […]
Gordimer is not an appropriate author to inflict upon learners. Not because she is racist: she is boring and pretentious.
Hasim Rahman’s victory was good for the sport in South Africa and good for Lennox Lewis Deon Potgieter The ”Thunder in Africa” tournament hit a resounding blow for world boxing and one of the benefactors will be South Africa. Another will be the man who lost his title. Lennox Lewis’s dramatic dethroning as the universal […]