Forget all those Rocky horror shows, sport is big box office business again Rob Steen The camera pans away from the centre of the ring towards the top rope, alighting on a patch of fresh blood. Black blood. Slowly, hypnotically, the treacly trickle becomes an ooze, splashing on to the next rung in a series […]
Liverpool’s manager – if he could make it here, he could make it anywhere David Barnes The passion for Liverpool football that Grard Houllier took into the enemy stronghold of Old Trafford recently was kindled long before he signed on the dotted line of his contract. Thanks to the testimony of one of his closest […]
Entitlement flip side? We have millionaire black people who can afford to buy and own newspapers and write whatever “non-racist” politically correct stories they like, but why don’t they? Maybe they know that the risks are too high because good newspapers are challenging, debate-provocative, investigative, informative, expose the rot and don’t daily regurgitate populist hogwash; […]
Stephen Gray spoke to three of the authors who attended the Time of the Writer festival LIEWE JORIS How do you define travel-writing? Some like to go into the desert riding a camel … but that is not at all my type of travel. I’m not doing romantic things, having adventures. When I asked Ryszard […]
tertiary education While some of South Africa’s tertiary institutions experience few interracial problems, others still can’t find solutions Heather Hogan, Nawaal Deane, Marianne Merten, Connie Selebogo and Paul Kirk Universities across the country are struggling to find ways to accommodate interracial strife in newly integrated residences. As the Mail & Guardian reported last month (February […]
The Time of the Writer festival in Durban offered a range of writers known and unknown Merle Colborne The writer from Iceland – the chap with the pale spiky hair – has his back to me. He is taking a leak; who cares that the ice- cream-stick figure on the lavatory door is wearing a […]
Riaan Wolmarans CD OFTHEWEEK Last weekend’s Select event at Carfax in Johannesburg was superb. It was amazingly refreshing to move to the sexy French house sounds as played by DJs Eric Rug, Deep and Pepe Bradock, as opposed to the usual hectic, commercial house one hears at all the other dance events. Now there’s a […]
Cedric Mason SPIRITLEVEL South Africa suffers from spiritual malnutrition. Flood and drought have sapped physical strength and produced grim pictures of starving bodies and hopeless eyes. Lack of spiritual strength causes the grim picture of crime and corruption, murder and rape, and poverty and violence that is sucking the hope out of our young nation. […]
electro-shock Heather Hogan The proposed new Mental Health Care Bill has one striking omission – it fails to deal with one of the most controversial methods of treatment, electro-shock therapy (ECT). Experts this week were sharply divided on the therapy, which is used extensively in South Africa. Those in favour claim it is a life-saver; […]
solution Khadija Magardie An average of two out of every 10 people in every workplace is likely to be HIV- positive, according to the Department of Health. Projections by Aids management consultants in various industries indicate that in the next 10 years, up to 25% of the population will be infected. The gloomy statistics paint […]