1 PW Botha 2 Philippe Troussier 3 Gauteng’s provincial Premier Mathole Motshekga 4 Renamo 5 The Northern Cape’s Manne Dipico 6 Hlengiwe Mkhize 7 Mitchells Plain on the Cape Flats 8 Moeneeb “Bowtie” Abrahams and Leonard “Chippie” Archilles of the Hard Livings gang, Jackie Lonte of the Americans, Ismael April of the Mongrels, to name […]

Andrew Worsdale With at least a week of rest and relaxation ahead, why not unwind in front of the big screen? With a host of movies opening over the next fortnight, there’s something for the whole family. The teen movie I’ll Be Home for Christmas heads the list. Jonathan Taylor Thomas (of Home Improvement fame) […]

Wally Mbhele interviews the Mail & Guardian’s newsmaker of the year, Robert McBride On a cold morning on April 9, South Africans woke up to what was to become one of the biggest thrillers of the year: the arrest of a senior government official in a foreign country. The official was none other than the […]

joker Stephen Bierley One of the most compelling images in tennis during the closing decade of this century was one born of loss. In the 1993 Wimbledon women’s singles final, and leading 4-1 in the third set, Jana Novotna dramatically crumpled to defeat against Steffi Graf and then, unable to contain her emotions, wept lingeringly […]

Do anthems wear out their appeal and need replacing to suit new conditions? James Ambrose Brown examines South Africa’s three anthems that tell the tale of the century For the English it was God Save the Queen, and Land of Hope and Glory. For the Afrikaners it was Die Stem van Suid Afrika. For the […]

era Mail & Guardian reporters The past took on the future. Like a dying man who knows his time is nearly up, the 20th century picked this moment to have one last flourish – for old time’s sake. It had some scores to settle, some unfinished business to complete. Next year would be too late: […]

A FIVE-year-old girl who went missing on a farm near Porterville in the Western Cape on Sunday was found on a neighbouring farm on Thursday. She apparently spent four nights on her own in the bushes next to a river. After searches by farm workers and police failed, two brothers on a neighbouring farm found […]

Julian Borger `If ‘im come here, ‘im see the world not so bad a place after all.” Sitting in the shade of an almond tree, waiting for morning Mass, the brothers and sisters of the Moravian Church had been discussing the possibility of a Second Coming when Sister Joyce offered this radically optimistic interpretation. She […]

shepherds than the other Bethlehem’ Jon Ronson Gwylym Richards says that, in some ways, Bethlehem, Wales, is better than Bethlehem, the West Bank. “We’re a lovely place to pray and meditate,” he says. “The other Bethlehem is all about hustle and bustle, but we’re all about peace and quiet. Also, we’ve got more sheep and […]

censorship were over? Brenda Atkinson As the second Johannesburg Biennale limped into the early weeks of 1998, it seemed for a while that post- international-schmoozing stress disorder might have taken the tart out of art. Fatigued by working, networking, or just plain complaining, contemporary artists countrywide curled into introspection for the first half of the […]