Not CD of the week: Sheryl Garratt Happiness is largely a matter of perception. But if the world is split into optimists who see a glass as half- full and pessimists who see it as half- empty, then Canadian singer-songwriter Alanis Morissette goes further: she sees the glass as a dangerous weapon that will inevitably […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Friday 11.45am. BORDER’s opening batting pair of Brad White and Craig Sugden put their team in the healthy position of 103 without loss at lunch on the opening day of their three day fixture against the West Indies at Buffalo Park in East London. Border earlier won the toss and elected […]

Preview of the week: Anton Marshall `Hey, have you heard of Renaissance?” I ask experimentally, honestly believing the hype that clubbers are in and slacker journos are out. “Er … Wasn’t that a Leonardo da Vinci painting?” she replies innocently, sipping on a Mule as her low- key rave vest struggles to find a cling […]

Etienne van Heerden’s most recent novel has been translated into English. He spoke to Shaun de Waal With the translation, one by one, of Etienne van Heerden’s novels (and a volume of stories) into English, his status as a major South African writer is becoming clearer to a larger audience. His multi-prize-winning Toorberg, translated as […]

The David Gleason Column The arrival in South Africa of a major North American gold company gives further emphasis to the extraordinary changes which have taken place in this country’s mining industry in the past five years. After months of negotiation, it was announced this week that Vancouver- based Placer Dome, already among the world’s […]

A new television series will put figures from South Africa’s past on trial. Matthew Krouse reports Santarama Miniland, on the shores of Wemmer Pan dam, is an unexpected setting for a historical television drama of high integrity. A mammoth Gulliver hovers over tiny replicas of apartheid-era monuments, rekindling memories of brainwashing school outings. Shored up […]

Nicoli Nattrass It is economically illiterate and shockingly ill-informed to argue that we cannot afford to give pregnant women AZT. This is apparent from the most basic cost-benefit analysis. Taking the narrowest possible approach, the government simply has to ask whether the cost of administering AZT is more or less than the costs of treating […]

Anthony Holiday: OVER A BARREL Two terms in our current political lexicon are in urgent need of clarification. They are, of course, racialism and liberalism. The former refers to the gravest of matters, having to do with virtually everything the struggle for national liberation aimed to eliminate. However, it is now invariably an epithet, used […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Wednesday 7.00pm. ENGLISH flyhalf Mike Catt will not be asked to take any place kicks against the Springboks on Saturday, after he missed what would have been a match winning conversion against Australia last weekend, the English rugby camp said on Wednesday. The South African-born player, who replaced the injured Paul […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Wednesday 7.00pm. ERNIE ELS, Tiger Woods and last year’s winner Nick Price will make their appearance as favourites at the Sun City Million Dollar Golf challenge which starts on Thursday. The three are part of the competition’s strongest-ever field, which includes six of the top seven players in the world. Woods, […]