DAVID SHAPSHAK, Johannesburg | Thursday 5.00pm. Gary Teichmann has retained his Springbok captaincy in a 32-man squad named by coach Nick Mallett on Thursday. The number eight and Natal skipper missed the last four weeks of the Super 12 with a knee injury – which precipitated a captaincy scare. Also named is another key player […]
Nashen Moodley Political parties in KwaZulu-Natal are making last-ditch efforts to woo a largely apathetic Indian electorate, using remarkably similar strategies. Opposition parties are attempting to convince the Indian population that it is a marginalised minority and are fuelling insecurity within a community already fearful of the triumvirate of crime, affirmative action and Africanism. Indian […]
Haroon Bhorat One of the key dilemmas facing the government is to eradicate, or at least reduce, poverty. The first step is to understand which are the most affected groups. In the labour market there are three groups which together explain more than 80% of the poverty in South Africa. They are unemployed people, domestic […]
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 […]
With its quirky approach Chris du Plessis’s programme But Is It Art? has offended the `intellectuals’ of the art world. For him that might be it’s greatest success. Alex Dodd reports Chris du Plessis is on a rampage. “I think the intellectual influence on the arts is getting a bit much. There’s this whole, esoteric […]
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 […]