IN BRIEF McMILLAN, DONALD FOR DEATH MATCH SOUTH Africa’s Brian McMillan and Allan Donald have been chosen for an MCC team which will play the Rest of the World in a memorial match for Diana, Princess of Wales, at Lord’s on July 18. MCC Team: Mike Atherton (England), Amir Sohail (Pakistan), Mohammed Azharuddin (India), Saurav […]
OPENING batsman Andrew Hudson has announced his retirement from international cricket after 35 tests for South Africa. Hudson, 34, was the first South African to score a century on a test debut when he made 163 against the West Indies in Barbados in 1992, South Africa’s first test after 22 years in isolation. Hudson scored […]
ANGOLA struck twice within five minutes during the closing stages to grab a 2-1 victory over Malawi in a Castle Cup Southern Africa championship match in Blantyre on Sunday. Antonio Mendonca, a 16-year-old debutant, equalised after 76 minutes with a close-range shot and Malawi captain Patrick Mabedi turned a Paulo Tomas cross into his own […]
THURSDAY, 2.00PM: BOND traders are gearing to confront the Reserve Bank over inefficient handling of the its bond auction, after the Bank this week released the results of the auction over an hour-and-a-half late. Investors and traders alike were thrown off balance when the Bank, held back by a computer problem, failed to release the […]
Shaun de Waal SOUTH AFRICA: A GUIDE TO RECENT ARCHITECTURE by Christina Muwanga (Ellipsis) This exceptionally cute little book (it is a mere 10cm square, though 350 pages thick) is an excellent pocket guide to South African architecture of the last decade or so. It doesn’t go back into our history, so it lacks some […]
Loose cannon Robert Kirby A few months ago I arrived at ACSA’s Johannesburg International Punishment Camp. We were disembarked from our beautifully maintained 200-year-old Airbus and mercilessly driven up through one of those jetty things into a long dimly lit corridor. Dreadful torture music screamed out of the walls at us. Like a scene from […]
Mayday – the celebration of the eight-hour working day – was first celebrated in South Africa in 1904, by white workers. By the 1980s, it had become a major moment for black trade unionists, whose rallies included groundbreaking poetry and plays. These days, much of the Mayday fervour has been lost. And many South Africans, […]
Donna Block and Mungo Soggot South Africa’s premier empowerment group, New Africa Investments Limited (Nail), is expected to a undergo a top-level boardroom shake-up in the wake of the debacle surrounding an attempt by directors to award themselves a R136-million share option bonus. Market sources said this week that the company’s two founding directors, Nthato […]
Mathews Phosa’s political career may be at an end, but he won’t go down without a fight. Wally Mbhele and Makhosini Nkosi report As the African National Congress late this week announced its far-reaching findings on the political divisions behind the collapse of provincial structures in Mpumalanga, outgoing Premier Mathews Phosa came out blazing and […]
Ivor Powell With an international conference aimed at enforcing a worldwide anti-personnel landmines ban kicking off in Maputo on Monday, questions will have to be asked about how effectively the problem has been addressed to date. In Mozambique, according to United States Department of State statistics, only 28km of usable land had been cleared of […]