Nearly half the illegal immigrants on a repatriation train last week jumped off before it arrived in Mozambique Khadija Magardie It’s early morning on the repatriation train to Mozambique, and police Captain Pieter Cloete, clad in a T-shirt and sleeping shorts, is running bewildered through the carriages. “Where are all the people?” he shouts – […]
Ex-prisoner 885/63 revisits Robben Island as his book on the subject is reissued Henk Rossouw When Indres Naidoo returned from exile, his nephew handed him a tattered photocopy of his memoir, banned in 1982. “It was still full of curry marks,” chuckled Naidoo as we drove down to the harbour to catch the early ferry […]
Howard Barrell and Jaspreet Kindra Jeff Radebe, minister of public enterprises, misled the Human Rights Commission (HRC) on Wednesday when he presented the submission of the African National Congress to the HRC’s public hearings on the media. Radebe told the HRC panel that Phillip van Niekerk, editor of the Mail & Guardian, wrote an article […]
Neil Manthorp CRICKET Herschelle Gibbs is to the South African cricket team what a glass of Eno is to the nocturnally reckless come the morning after – a welcome shot of effervescence and bubble. He’s the one who keeps the guys going when tours start disappearing over the psychological horizon; he’s the tension- breaker on […]
Deon Potgieter BOXING Tsietse Maretloane etched his name in the history books on November 14 1977 when he became South Africa’s first “supreme” featherweight national champion. The bout was a unification of the black and white national titles. Maretloane is a former minister who has turned his hand to promoting boxing. He seeks to honour […]
The first place a visitor normally looks for in any city is a good caf, where you can catch the spirit of the city while lingering over a cup. We look at the ten best in the world and five in South Africa Sarah Turner 1 Vienna – Braunerhof, Backerstrasse 9: A trip to Demels, […]
The first description of the wonder of the Aughrabies Falls, one of the world’s six largest falls, was published 175 years ago Stephen Gray When George Thompson, the Cape-based trader, first beheld the awesome Aughrabies Falls, in the Northern Cape, in 1824 at the end of a long trek through iron-tinted rocky desolation, he was […]
Luvuyo Kakaza With a few hitches the South African Music Awards (Sama) got off an hour late on March 30 amid great dramatics. Five musicians were honoured for their lifetime achievements – these included the three former exiles, Jonas Gwangwa, Hugh Masekela and composer Caiphus Semenya; accordionist Nico Carstens, who has sold two-million records in […]
“The personal opinions of the editors have no weight in the eyes of the public. What they seek in a newspaper is knowledge of facts, and it is only by altering or distorting those facts that a journalist can contribute to the support of his own views.” – Alexis de Tocqueville (1805-1859) It might appear […]
A subjective assessment of the main men (and woman) on the global stage The balance of power in global sport is shifting and few individuals better illustrate the changes taking place than Rupert Murdoch. He does not play sport, he does not administer it and he rarely even watches it. However, over the past decade […]