Martina’s back and her huge army of fans go to Eastbourne to lay out the welcome mat Veronica Lee Eastbourne is a funny old place. Famous for being the south of England’s favourite retirement town, where you can smell the formaldehyde rolling in off the sea, it’s also slap bang in the middle of a […]

losses Glenda Daniels ‘I might be earning cents at the moment, but it’s early days and it’s better than sitting at home and starving,” says thirtysomething single mother Joyce Moemedi, who has joined a small-business project to learn mosaic skills after 10 years of unemployment. Moemedi, who once had no skills, is now general secretary […]

David Beresford ANOTHER COUNTRY The Chief Chief, House of Lords c/o Cricket Ground, Marylebone, Great Britain, Overseas URGENT AND IN YE UTMOST CONFIDENCE Dear Chief Lord and/or Chief Lady, We write to acquaint you with a dread Affliction which has befallen the Spirit of the Game, the said game being Ye Olde Sporte of Cricket […]

intact and subdued Howard Barrell On his desk, atop a clutter of scattered papers, lay a copy of Sun Tzu’s The Art of War, the ancient Chinese text on how to have your cake and eat it on the battlefield. Behind his desk, the senior Democratic Party official was up and down in his chair […]

Khadija Magardie The Commission for Gender Equality (CGE) has appointed as its new CEO a junior management consultant with no background in gender politics after he drafted a glowing report on the commission’s activities and eulogised its senior management. The consultant, Zith Mahaye, was recruited to advise the commission on ways to improve its image. […]

The South African cricket team goes to Sri Lanka on its first tour since the Hansie Cronje scandal broke Peter Robinson Not so much the man who would be king as the man who had to be king, Shaun Pollock will carry a fair bit of excess baggage in his coffin when he flies off […]

sales Glenda Daniels While the government’s final plan for the restructuring of state assets will be released within weeks – about two months later than scheduled and with labour organisations demanding a moratorium – it is expected that the motions of consultation will take place before the massive privatisation steamrolls ahead. Labour organisations has not […]

Connie Selebogo Anita Manyike (16) battles to hold a pen firmly to write out her schoolwork. Access to a computer – a government grant from the Department of Communications to her school – could not have come at a better time. For the past six years Manyike’s handwriting has deteriorated as a result of her […]

The Pill is 40 years old and in that time it has mostly received a bad press because of health risks – we hear less of the benefits. Tania Unsworth celebrates one of the defining inventions of the 20th century The Pill turns 40 this year, and during the course of its life it has […]

Tony Cox talks to Adam Haupt about his new album and the integrity of music that ignores the pop charts Tony Cox is one of those acoustic guitar trailblazers who began way before it was fashionable to create a uniquely South African sound. He first made a name for himself when he recorded 101 Ways […]