Mauresmo enters this week’s French Open with her sexuality as much an issue as her tennis, reports Stephen Bierley `They exaggerate. You wonder what they are talking about. Complete bullshit. If I paid attention to everything that has been written since Australia, then I would be hiding in the house. I said everything then, so […]
Brave Over the last year and a half, Jann Turner has visited Eugene de Kock in jail several times. She found him angry and haunted `Eugene wants to see you. He says he doesn’t bear any grudges.” The call came from a lawyer I’d met during my work on SABC’s Truth Commission Special Report. Eugene […]
Thabo Mbeki and the African National Congress are set to romp home next Wednesday, June 2, with about 70% of the vote – well over the two-thirds majority that excites ANC supporters and horrifies the opposition. The turnout across the country should be high, averaging out at about 90% of registered voters. Apart from the […]
Barbara Ellen Body Language Not so long ago, the world seemed to be full of women only too eager to invest in shop-bought tits. These days, it seems to be more about downsizing. In a nod to Amazons hacking their right breasts off because they interfered with shooting arrows, a British policewoman explained last week […]
Deon Potgieter Boxing The cards will be stacked against Lehlo “Hands of Stone” Ledwaba at the Carousel, Pretoria, on Saturday night. He’ll be stepping into the ring against former World Boxing Association bantamweight world champion John Michael Johnson hoping to become the third South African this decade to hold the International Boxing Federation’s junior featherweight […]
Sue Williamson Art Dialogue is yet another initiative which had its germination in the Second Johannesburg Biennale in 1997. (A point worth making to all those with cultural money to allocate who consider biennales a waste of time and money). Ralph Seippel, who shows young international artists in his Cologne gallery, came to Johannesburg for […]
Mike Metelits I got my first Apple Macintosh back in 1986, when men were men and one megabyte was a staggering amount of RAM. Things have come a long way since then, and ”bigger, faster” has become a mantra in computer circles. No problem. The Macintosh plays the ”bigger, faster” game well, while falling down […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Wentworth | Friday 3.30pm. ERNIE Els made a belated start to his British PGA championship preparations on Thursday after becoming a father for the first time. His wife Liezl gave birth to daughter Samantha in a Wentworth hospital on Wednesday. ”It’s our first child and we are really excited about it. I was […]
Howard Barrell The Angolan government is having difficulty finding the money to pay for a large consignment of arms it needs to mount a dry-season counter-offensive against Jonas Savimbi’s Unita rebels, according to regional security sources. The government has already postponed the counter-offensive once, and looks like having to do so again because of a […]
South African banks are trying to cater for two opposite worlds, reports Donna Block South African banking could be called an oxymoron. It’s like two worlds colliding -the rich and the poor, the developed and the undeveloped. The country boasts a world-class banking and financial system, however, the majority of the population remains unbankable. South […]