Terri Apter BODY LANGUAGE The relation between a woman and her body is often seen as problematic. She is aware of herself as a “physical object”, someone seen, assessed and known as a body. This self-awareness begins at an early age. Diaries of girls as young as eight show that they engage in what the […]
When gay men find a place they like, they tend to stick to it. That’s why Gran Canaria is still pink Britain’s winter resort of choice after 30 years Neville Walker At about 10:30pm every night of the year there’s a shift change at the Yumbo Centre in Playa del Ingles, Gran Canaria. It’s not […]
Andy Capostagno RUGBY The Super 12 reaches the halfway point this weekend with all four South African teams occupying the bottom half of the log. Thus far the thrilling rugby has come from the Hurricanes, Highlanders and Brumbies, while the Crusaders, champions of the past two years, have been ultra-professional and, at this distance at […]
South Africa take on Pakistan speedster Shoaib Akhtar and his suspect bowling action in the Sharjah cricket final Neil Manthorp With apologies to Shoaib Akhtar, Pakistan threw down the gauntlet for today’s Sharjah final with enough force on Tuesday to send shock waves through the rest of the cricketing world. When South Africa’s 14- match […]
Evidence wa ka Ngobeni Three policemen from the Soweto flying squad appeared in the Johannesburg Magistrate’s Court this week on charges of shooting, mutilating and killing a University of the Witwatersrand security guard whom they arrested on campus. The policemen, who have been suspended pending a police investigation, are accused of shooting Nicky Hlongwane several […]
Howard Barrell OVER A BARREL A problem with revolutionaries is that they tend to view themselves as indispensable. While they will say that the political change they helped secure was “inevitable”, they will nonetheless argue that their own intentional involvement was necessary to bring it about. By this curious reasoning, revolutionaries cast themselves as the […]
David Beresford ANOTHER COUNTRY Predictions offered by the oracles of the scientific age, intended for the stupefacation of their contemporaries, are more often quoted to the merriment of their descendants. The thought is prompted by Britain’s Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) which has been offering its thoughts on the future of crime. They have […]
Olympics Grant Shimmin SWIMMING There’s something about an Olympic year that just seems to bring new swimming stars crawling out of the woodwork. I mean, prior to last weekend, who’d ever heard of Ed Moses in this country? No, I haven’t got my sports confused. I’m not talking about Llewellyn Herbert’s hero, the greatest 400m […]
John Matshikiza WITH THE LID OFF ‘God gave Noah the rainbow sign:/’No more water, the fire next time!’” So run the words of the old Negro spiritual. The conflagration that consumed the bodies of some 500 members of an obscure Ugandan Christian cult which called itself the Movement for the Restoration of the Ten Commandments […]
Timothy Trengrove-Jones Like fashions, responses to HIV/Aids in this country seem to come in waves. And, in recent history, these waves tend to peak in March/April. On March 21 last year, supporters of the Aids Treatment Action Campaign lay down in the streets outside Chris Hani Baragwanath hospital to campaign for affordable and accessible treatment […]