OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Monday 8.30pm THE July 1988 car bomb explosion at Ellis Park sports stadium, in which two people died and 35 were injured, was not intended to kill anybody, but to send a message to whites that they, too, were vulnerable, a former Umkhonto weSizwe cadre applying for amnesty told the Truth […]
ROB DAVIES, Johannesburg | Sunday 1.00PM. SPRINGBOK wonderboy flyhalf Gaffie du Toit again delivered the goods to steer Griqualand West to a 23-17 victory over Natal at King’s Park in Durban on Saturday. Du Toit, who came on as a substitute in the second half, drilled two drop-goals through the posts in the 64th and […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Monday 6.00PM. THE Truth and Reconciliation amnesty committee has granted amnesty to Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging (Afrikaner Resistance Movement) member Nicolaas Willem de Jongh for the bombing of two houses shortly before the 1994 elections. De Jongh, the AWB commander for the Queenstown, Eastern Cape, area and two other AWB members bombed the […]
Sizwe samaYende in Nelspruit | Monday 3.30pm SOUTH Africa’s second largest primary tobacco company, with an initial market capitalisation of R100-million and representing 35% of total production in the country, opened for business on Monday. Lowveld Golden Leaf was formally incorporated on July 28 but opened its offices in the Mpumalanga capital of Nelspruit on […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Monday 9.00pm. SANLAM’S chief economist Jac Laubscher said on Monday he concurs with Reserve Bank governor Chris Stals’s assessment that the rand appears to be levelling off, and he would not be surprised to see it dip below the R6 to the dollar mark. Speaking before the National Council of Provinces’ […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Cheltenham | Sunday 1.00PM. SOUTH Africa’s final warm-up fixture against Essex failed to get off the ground on Sunday, when a combination of heavy overnight rain and a malfunction in the drainage system resulted in a waterlogged outfield. Play is expected to resume at 3pm. The local fire brigade was called in to […]
Andrew Worsdale Djibril Diop Mambety, Senegal’s major visionary film-maker, died last week after a long fight against throat cancer. Mambety was, without doubt, Africa’s most fanciful film-maker – the only man who treated African stories with the lateral cinematic vision they crave. Starting his movie-making in 1968 with Contras-City, dubbed the first African comedy, the […]
Neil Manthorp in Chelmsford : Cricket The memory of the 1994 tour still sits in the palate of South African cricket like old garlic. The glory of Lord’s, the passion of the defensive draw at Headingley, and then the crumbling edifice at the end. Devon Malcolm’s crushing 9-57 at the Oval was only the beginning. […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Friday 11.00AM. THE 1998 Castle Premiership soccer season starts on Friday night, and the first weekend will see some interesting match-ups. The weekend schedule is: Friday: Cape Town Spurs vs Mamelodi Sundowns in Cape Town. Saturday: Moroka Swallows vs Seven Stars at the George Gogh Stadium in Johannesburg. Manning Rangers vs […]
Dan Glaister : First Person John Bayley has written a moving elegy to his wife, the writer Iris Murdoch, in the New Yorker magazine. It is a tale of two swimming trips to the same river near Oxford, United Kingdom. Two trips punctuated by a space of 40 years, and haunted by Alzheimer’s disease. “With […]