John Higgins It’s embarrassing to introduce an academic superstar to a small audience in a large hall. “There may be just my theory of literature class here,” I murmured, as we hurried towards the lecture, adding silently, “all 10 of them!” Could the unfashionable topic, “Marxism at the Millennium”, draw in the crowds on this […]
Howard Barrell:OVER A BARREL As President Nelson Mandela prepared his farewell to Parliament this week, I could not help feeling that the grand old man was not the only person deserving of applause. Every MP could also justifiably take a bow. So, too, could each South African. For Mandela’s farewell on Friday March 26, the […]
AMANDA COETZER is out of the Lipton Championships in Florida, after American Serena Williams beat the ninth seeded South African 6-4 6-0 on Wednesday. Williams now faces Martina Hingis in the event’s semifinals, after the Swiss top seed crushed Austria’s Barbara Schett 6-1 6-1 in 42 minutes. The 18-year-old Hingis has not dropped a set […]
Emeka Nwandiko Forget about a rematch of boxing heavyweights Lennox Lewis and Evander Holyfield taking place on South African soil. A far weightier contest takes place this week at the Old Edwardian Society in Houghton – a unification bout between the current Draughts World Champion and the world champion for morabaraba. Ron King flew to […]
WEST Rand police said on Friday that they have arrested eight suspects in connection with the robbery at the Roodepoort Cascades Shopping Mall which left a police officer and a suspected robber dead and several people wounded. The shoot-out took place earlier with an armed gang which ambushed security guards at the mall. Police confronted […]
CAPTAIN SOLO, controversial radio personality in the October 28 1997 Zambian coup attempt, died after being shot in the attempted coup’s aftermath, defence lawyer Sacika Sitwala told the Lusaka High Court yesterday. Sitwala denied that any of the accused in current proceedings was the mysterious Captain Solo, saying the only evidence the prosecution advanced about […]
A few years ago, I attended a lecture by a Canadian constitutional lawyer, David Beatty. Briefly, his thesis was that the most important task for a judge in a constitutional state was to balance the rights guaranteed in the Constitution with the provision that such rights may be limited by government action. In short, the […]
NIGERIA has yet to launch an official campaign for their 2006 World Cup bid and a bidding committee is not even in place. Sports Minister Emeka Omeruah said earlier this month: “It will soon be constituted,” but time is fast running out with only a year to go before Fifa decides on the 2006 host. […]
What is more important: restoring land to a dispossessed community or having the third- largest battle school in the world? Nicole Turner reports It is a matter of some pride for the South African National Defence Force (SANDF)that the Lohatla Battle School, south of Kuruman in the Northern Cape, is playing host to Operation Blue […]
THE government has expressed its “grave concern” at the Nato military action against Yugoslavia. In a statement on Thursday, the Department of Foreign Affairs said: “This is in violation of the United Nations Charter and accepted norms of international law and it has exacerbated the situation in the Balkans.” The statement stressed the need to […]