GALE-force winds off flood-battered Mozambique are expected to pound the southern coast and adjacent interior with up to 50mm of rain on Thursday, the South African Weather Bureau reports. It said the subtropical low-pressure system over the Indian Ocean could develop into a cyclone by Friday. Bureau spokesman Ewert Scholtz said it is quite late […]
Shaun de Waal Norman Catherine’s new show at the Goodman Gallery extends and recapitulates images that are familiar from his work over the last decade or so. This show is mostly sculpture, whereas his 1994 show (his last solo exhibition in South Africa) was chiefly painting, but the two media increasingly overlap for Catherine -his […]
Andrew Muchineripi SOCCER With Sundowns winning again in midweek and now just nine points away from a third consecutive Castle Premiership title, the Bob Save Super Bowl represents the sole hope of salvation for Orlando Pirates and Kaizer Chiefs. Not that Sundowns are going to let them have it all their own way, as they […]
Howard Barrell Government plans for the biggest shake-up of the civil service in decades will be unveiled next month when Minister of Public Service and Administration Geraldine Fraser-Moleketi tables new pay and retrenchment packages. Fraser-Moleketi briefed the Cabinet in Cape Town on Wednesday on personnel audits done by provinces and central government departments. The audits […]
Grant Shimmin BOWLS If the World Bowls 2000 tournament, which draws to a close with the singles final at Marks Park, Johannesburg, tomorrow afternoon, has achieved one thing, it’s to dispel to the casual observer the image of the sport as “old man’s marbles”. To the ardent follower, the presence of a healthy crop of […]
Nokia, Ericsson and Motorola, the three giants of cellular phones, this week joined forces to create a standard for delivering secure transactions on mobile handsets by 2001. The move is designed to fuel the rise of mobile commerce, such as banking or buying train tickets with a cellphone – a process the three companies say […]
Ryan Coetzee CROSSFIRE When the Democratic Party first released All Power to the Party, a description and analysis of the African National Congress’s Cadre Policy and Deployment Strategy, many major newspapers simply ignored it. The one publication that devoted an editorial to the document rejected our analysis and, bizarrely, pronounced us “guilty of McCarthyism” for […]
The leader of the IFP, Mangosuthu Buthelezi, has been hit with yet another scandal Paul Kirk Government intelligence agencies have been probing allegations that Mangosuthu Buthelezi, the minister of home affairs and president of the Inkatha Freedom Party, has been receiving large amounts of cash from illegal casinos. According to confidential documents compiled by the […]
Ronald Suresh Roberts CROSSFIRE The Mail & Guardian abandoned its sassy and irreverent best self last week, instead offering readers an editorial full of artless bombast (“The M&G’s not for burning”). Why? According to the editorial, some participants in the Human Rights Commission (HRC) media hearings have defamed all whites as “intrinsically guilty of racism”, […]
After 24 years of vicious abuse at the hands of her husband, justice may finally be done for Anne Ribets Charlene Smith Anne Ribets is tiny and well groomed. Her appearance belies the fact that for 24 years her husband – now ex-husband – has regularly beaten stabbed and attacked her. He once allegedly abducted […]