The Springboks recently lost a test series on home soil against the All Blacks for the first time in their history, but it’s not the first time Louis Luyt has been embroiled in controversy. Katy Bauer reports A CROWDED Johannesburg bar during one of the recent matches between South Africa and New Zealand. The Boks […]

Nick Varley THE outsiders, Pulp, have won the Mercury Music Prize and presented the R175 000 to the music business charity aiding Bosnia. With the hot pre-award favourites, Oasis, absent on tour in America, judges narrowed the short-list of 10 down to two contenders: Pulp and the veteran folk performer, Norma Waterson. Simon Frith, chairman […]

The archetypal Nineties youth was just the creation of marketing hype, writes Martin Wroe THEY are the no-job, no-prospect, no-hope teenagers and twentysomethings, the so-called “slacker” generation — except that these archetypal youths of the Nineties may not actually exist. Speakers at a conference on European youth this week will tell delegates that Generation X […]

Five years of economic expansion in the US and the stock market is riding high, but the sceptics believe confidence is being confused with complacency. Tom Petruno reports The stock market got it right. As usual. While the bond market continued to have its ups and downs in August and early September, sweating over the […]

BAFANA KHUMALO follows a new musical drama, One Voice, through two performances — one in Soweto and the other at the Civic Theatre FRIDAY morning at the Market Theatre complex, Johannesburg. A bearded, pipe-smoking man is trying to contain himself. The source of his discomfort is the cast of a play who are drifting in […]

Angella Johnson THE rural Eastern Cape town of Lady Grey is so small you can still get someone on the phone by dialling the exchange and asking for them by name. So when local gun enthusiast James Thorne was peppered with seven bullets at his farm one Friday afternoon, it was not long before tongues […]

Mail & Guardian Reporters He is said to have the whole world in his hands … but Nelson Mandela continues to be frustrated in realising the dream that appears closest to his heart: a walk down the aisle with Gra?a Machel as his bride. In his first on-the-record interview dealing with his love affair with […]

Alex Brummer in London The decision by the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) the Basle-based central bankers’ club, to widen its membership to include nine emerging market countries, represents a critical milestone for the global economic order. It has been evident since the International Monetary Fund’s (IMF) 50th anniversary meetings in Madrid in 1994 that […]