Robyn Hofmeyr Jeremy’s friend and neighbour Sunday, a typical highveld winter evening. Temperature inversion, the smell of thousands of coal-smoke fires. It’s early evening, not a great time if you’re the parents of young children. My youngest kid is fractious, he wants his bottle and clings to my trouser leg while my older kid whines […]
WITH six team members in the top 10 of both the drivers and co-drivers championships and currently leading four of the six classes, Team Total looks set to make its presence strongly felt in the 1999 Sasol Rally, which starts in Sabie (Mpumalanga) on June 18 and ends in Nelspruit on June 19. It will […]
THURSDAY, 6.30PM: SOUTH AFRICA are in a spot of bother at tea on the first day of the first Test at Edgbaston with Mike Atherton and Mark Butcher forging an unbeaten opening partnership of 151 to place England in a very healthy position on Thursday. The English batsmen kept cool heads after they had been […]
DAVID SHAPSHAK, Johannesburg | Thursday 5.40pm. STORMERS player representative Andy Marinos and captain Corne Krige will face an independent disciplinary committee hearing next Thursday about their team’s refusal to play in a Super 12 semi-final. The Stormers were crushed 33-18 by the Otago Highlanders on May 22 after they refused to take the field unless […]
Howard Barrell Over a Barrel And how, I was musing aloud on the road back from the election counting centre in Pretoria, do opposition parties begin to contend for power? “By getting bigger,” responded my colleague, Mungo Soggot. And how do they get bigger? “By winning more votes, of course.” And how do they do […]
A PASTOR from Rwanda’s Episcopal Church and a former army major were condemned to death for genocide Thursday by a special military tribunal, official radio announced from Kigali on Thursday. “The military court condemned to death gendarmerie major Anne-Marie Nyirahakizimana and pastor Anastase Ngirinshuti for genocide, murder and association with criminals,” the radio said. It […]
`Historic” is not the way most observers have described this week’s general election. The black majority, with the exception of the inhabitants of rural KwaZulu-Natal, voted overwhelmingly and predictably for the African National Congress, while the opposition parties squabbled over the crumbs of “minority” voters. But any event that at once signals the exit from […]
Anthony Egan TREVOR HUDDLESTON: A LIFE by Robin Denniston (Macmillan) For a figure of such importance to the anti-apartheid struggle, Archbishop Trevor Huddleston has been largely overlooked as a subject for biography. His life has largely been told through his own writings – which combine Anglo-Catholic theology, militant anti-racism and an anecdotal style – or […]
Cameron Duodu Letter from the North Nigeria’s new President, General Olusegun Obasanjo, has delighted his supporters by darting straight into the heart of Nigeria’s core problem: corruption. He has ordered that all contracts awarded and appointments made since January, by the military administration from which he has just taken over, should be reviewed. By doing […]
Armed robbers rammed a revolver into Jeremy Daphne’s mouth and dumped him in the veld. He lived to tell the tale Reversing out my drive, radio playing, looking forward to a cheery supper with friends. Feeling good in my new, second-hand denim jacket. Hope they will enjoy my R11,99 dry red wine. Flashy new combi […]