FENCING:Julian Drew NEXT week the first-ever world championships in an Olympic sport to take place in South Africa will be held in Cape Town when the World Fencing Championships are staged at a newly constructed venue in Culemborg. Just weeks before the 2004 Olympic Games decision in Lausanne it is important for Cape Town that […]
champion TENNIS:Richard Williams THE means were predictable, the method was not. The Wimbledon final was certainly won, as advertised, by Pete Sampras’s serve but not, in this instance, by the 208km/h fireballs that had reduced his opponents to cinders in the earlier rounds. In a match falling some way short of greatness Sampras demonstrated his […]
FRIDAY, 4.30PM DEPUTY Foreign Affairs Minister Aziz Pahad on Friday said that a decision on SA arms sales to Rwanda will be taken shortly. After meeting a Rwandan government delegation in Pretoria he told reporters this had been one of the issues under discussion. “We have been discussing this, but a decision will have to […]
THE former editor of Private Eye, Richard Ingrams, once said memorably that a libel suit is like a game of Russian roulette, the outcome being equally unpredictable. The financial magazine, Finance Week, has recently put a gun to the Mail & Guardian’s head and pulled the trigger. We are waiting anxiously to discover whether there […]
FRIDAY, 11.00AM IN spite of a 19% increase in the manufacturing production index, the sector cut a further 14 000 jobs during the first quarter of this year, according to latest figures from the Central Statistical Service. The manufacturing sector has been in a squeeze for some time, and nearly 50 000 workers lost their […]
Gaye Davis SENIOR Human Rights Commission official Anne Routier has tendered her resignation following a blistering row with chair Barney Pityana. Routier, a National Party nominee to the commission who convenes its committee for policy and planning, and heads its Eastern Cape region, tendered her resignation with immediate effect in a letter to the secretary […]
Hazel Friedman NOSES have not yet been broken in the build- up to this year’s Johannesburg Biennale. But some might be put out of joint due to confusion over who is running South Africa’s second international art extravaganza, and over who will fund it. Officially, the man at the helm is the Nigerian-born New York-based […]
Writer Timothy Garton Ash was a student and journalist in Berlin in the 1970s and 1980s. Recently he returned to the city to find the file kept on him by East Germany’s secret police. In this extract from his forthcoming book The File, he tells of finding the buff-coloured binder detailing his activities – and […]
JACQUIE GOLDING-DUFFY reports on Radio Highveld’s new advert rates SOME advertisers are outraged by the astronomical hikes in advertising rates by Radio Highveld, the radio station that was bought from the SABC for a whopping R320- million. The days when radio was a cheap medium have long gone, but with the recent increases introduced by […]
Ferial Haffajee `NOW my friends it is time for you to come to your friend in order to understand. The cattle have udders, come and milk them!” It is 1899, and around the reef which was to become Johannesburg touts put up notices like this one to entice black labourers on to the mines. At […]