PREMIER South African fast-bowler Allan Donald says he is stunned by his former skipper and close friend Hansie Cronje’s revelations about match-fixing. “My whole career with him just keeps flashing past me since I found out,” said Donald, who plays for the English county side Warwickshire. “It’s incredible. It’s just greed really that’s made him […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Saturday 6.00pm. SOUTH Africa’s first black Chief Justice and one of the its foremost civil rights lawyers, Ismael Mohamed, died on Saturday in Johannesburg’s Linksfield clinic from cancer at the age of 68. Mohamed, who became the country’s first black judge in 1991, was appointed chief justice in 1996 by then-president […]
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This year’s Encounters II documentary film festival presents European, Canadian and African works by film-makers of
all calibres. Robyn Alexander considers documentaries in general and some particular filmic highlights of the festival .
Siki. Dutch director Niek Koppen, who will be a guest of the festival presents his hour-long work of 1992 about Louis M’Barick Fall, who in 1922 became the first African to win a world boxing title. The documentary recounts the life of Battling Siki, the intelligent “savage”, activist, dandy, husband and womeniser. Using unique film […]
David Beresford ANOTHER COUNTRY Many years ago I interviewed the former British prime minister, James Callaghan. He was foreign secretary at the time. The event was unremarkable, except that it was conducted in a nursery school classroom. We could not find anywhere to sit and he ended up wedging his considerable frame into one of […]
Fuel shortages, roadblocks, hijackings and intimidation are all part of daily life in Harare. Mercedes Sayagues reports I returned to Harare after two weeks in Latin America and found a city that lives in fear. Many – I am one – fear when the needle on the fuel indicator drops below half a tank. Grief, […]
There is a significant yet unexplored link between the abuse of alcohol and drugs and the spread of HIV/Aids Khadija Magardie All indicators point to the fact that the young and economically productive are the most likely to be felled by the HIV/Aids pandemic. According to a recently released report by Love-Life, an advocacy body […]