the working classes SERJEANT AT THE BAR One of the key concerns of legal study is to analyse judges’ decisions to see how they are influenced by unarticulated assumptions and prejudices. There is no need to do that with Judge Nigel Willis’s recent decision in the case of Woolworths v Whitehead. His assumptions are proudly […]

Judy Barnes Investing is a personal matter, and first impressions are usually inherited from family. When urged, an individual will begin “informing” you. This is a serious subject, requiring a grave countenance and a low voice. Investments constitute solemn stuff, and whatever daddy advised is almost always regarded as gospel. Investments include savings accounts, unit […]

Daniel Taylor There has not been such a kerfuffle in Stamford since its last famous resident passed away in 1809. The townsfolk have waited a long time to fte a home-grown celebrity, and the emergence of the archetypal local-boy-done-good could hardly have gone unnoticed in a town which is usually prefixed by the word “sleepy”. […]

Andy Capostagno RUGBY Two years ago when the Crusaders came to Durban they were regarded as Super 12 interlopers. They had lost three of their first four matches in the tournament, together with the then All Black captain Justin Marshall, victim of an Achilles tear in the second match of the season. The Sharks had […]

Alfie Cox is off on a mission to prove that nice guys can win Gavin Foster MOTORCYCLING Twenty-two times South African champion motorcycle racerAlfie Cox recenly left for Nice to participate in the week-long, 2 000km Tunisian Rally. “Third place, third place, third place. Now I’m tired of it,” says the man who dumfounded the […]

penises Brenda Atkinson The grand declarations by Judge Nigel Willis and the majority of the court – a savage mix of patriarchal gospel and capitalist economic imperatives – were appalling enough. But the clincher came from advocate Martin Brassey, SC, representing Woolworths, who, in a stunning display of updated Victorian misogyny, compared a pregnant woman […]

Byzantine world of cricket betting Vikrant Gupta and V Krishnaswamy in New Delhi When Hansie Cronje, or the Australians Mark Waugh and Shane Warne before him, tell us that they only “provided information and forecasts” and did not indulge in “match- fixing”, they fool only the naive. In fact, this “inside” information gives the bookie/punter […]

Khadija Magardie and Rachel Kelly Dr Werner Bezwoda, South Africa’s leading chemotherapist who admitted to misrepresenting research into breast cancer, has escaped censure from the Gauteng government after the province’s health department bungled its probe into the scandal that has rocked the medical world. Bezwoda, who was last month dismissed by Wits University’s clinical oncology […]

The fall of a South African idol … A beginner’s guide to the Hansie Cronje saga. Reports by Ivor Powell, Jaspreet Kindra, Neil Manthorp, Gavin Foster and Nawaal Deane When the dust clears on the fallout of the Hansie Cronje match- fixing bombshell, not only the credibility of the South African game, but the entire […]

Mail & Guardian reporter Hansie Cronje’s revelation of supporting bribery and corruption have shaken more than just the cricket establishment. The normally languid world of satirical cartooning also received a jolt on Tuesday as the Madam & Eve creative trio was putting the final touches to this week’s Mail & Guardian cartoon. The cartoon’s basic […]