LAMONTVILLE Golden Arrows have been promoted to the Castle Premier League after beating Premier United 2-1 to win the MTN First Division Coastal Stream league championships at the weekend. The team from KwaZulu-Natal ended the season on 61 points from 26 matches. Arrows were active in the old National Professional Soccer League (NPSL) during the […]
Former president Nelson Mandela on Saturday visited the survivors of last month’s nightclub stampede and their families.
It may seem that unions’ days are numbered, but labour is devising new ways to deal with globalisation Glenda Daniels Trade unions locally and internationally are on the defensive. They appear to be faced with the challenge to submit or fight changes in the economy. In reality, something in between, a third way, is emerging […]
Michael Grant is toned and in tune for his fight with Lennox Lewis Donald McRae ‘Hold on, baby,” a strange voice whispers down the phone, “the man is on his way. He’s runnin’ at ya …” I can hear him coming. Michael Grant is 2m tall, weighs over 115kg and slams across the floorboards in […]
Didi Kriel is the driving force behind the music of Antjie Somers, the musical currently playing to excited throngs at the Nico Theatre Guy Willoughby Didi Kriel is a self-confessed theatre workaholic: “God knows how many shows I’ve created, arranged, accompanied since 1983! When did I last have an evening off?” He kindly squeezed in […]
World-wide, rap is a billion-dollar industry, but in South Africa it still has a way to go Thami Masemola Myth: country music outsells everything in the United States. Fact: rap music is the biggest selling genre in the $6-billion annual US market, capturing close to 15% of it. Myth: only black inner-city youth are into […]
Maggie Davey On my first day of boarding school, at evening prayers in the chapel, the clergyman played a trick on us. He whispered something to the people seated in the pews nearest to him and asked them to relay the message to those of us in the back pews; a distance covered of at […]
Peter Dickson and Barry Streek One of the Eastern Cape’s most influential lobby groups for farm workers and dispossessed rural communities, the Transkei Land Services Organisation (Tralso), warned this week that the slow processing of land claims in the aftermath of apartheid could lead to Zimbabwe-style property invasions in the impoverished region. “The issue cannot […]
Donna Block Zimbabwe’s annual tobacco auction is one of the biggest events on the country’s economic calendar and is usually cause for fanfare and celebration. But when the trading floors opened for business this week there was little to cheer about. Caught between threats to their property from militant landless blacks and economic conditions that […]
Paul Kirk Judge Willem Heath has criticised the appointment of a commission of inquiry by the KwaZulu-Natal government to investigate charges against the province’s MEC for Welfare and Population Development, Prince Gideon Zulu. The appointment of the commission followed several exposs in the Mail & Guardian about alleged corruption in Zulu’s department that appeared to […]