The Mark Gevisser Profile One Free State, one Lekota? `One Free State!” yells Councillor Bazooka Ma-baso, working the crowd for Comrade Terror. “One Lekota!” the overflowing classroomful of Mangaung residents yells back, on cue. The chant, first heard in Welkom a week or so ago, is moving like tumbleweed across the Free State’s plains as […]
Stephen Bates in Brussels Jean-Luc Dehaene, the Belgian prime minister, has found himself cast in the unlikely role of the absolutist French monarch Louis XIV by angry compatriots and press cartoonists since he ruthlessly seized control of the economy in an attempt to prepare the country for the European Monetary Union. The man spurned by […]
Angella Johnson It would seem that not even the national police commissioner is safe from South Africa’s tidal crime wave. Thieves broke into one of George Fivaz’s offices last weekend and made off with two large fax machines and a kettle. The bold-faced crooks marched into what should be one of the countries’ safest buildings […]
forever Julian Drew IN just over two hours and 12 minutes on Sunday a simple and largely unheralded young man from the Eastern Transvaal changed the face of athletics in South Africa forever. Josia Thugwane’s marathon victory in the Centennial Olympic Games vindicated everything that has ever been said about the Mathews Temanes, Mathews Motshwarateus, […]
Mail & Guardian Reporter THE white, male edifice of the South African judiciary sustained another blow this week with the announcement of three new women judges. The three, attorney Kathy Satchwell, Geraldine Borchers, SC, and Vivian Niles-Duner, will bring to seven the number of women on the Bench. They will join the small club which […]
South African Koto Bolofo has been picking up awards on the international festival circuit, so why have we never heard of him? Dinah Arnott finds out `SOME 30 years ago, a history teacher was accused of communist infiltration: a quotation from Karl Marx had been found in one of his text books. This was criminal […]
Arnold Schwarzenegger is 49 and still conquering. Undaunted, ANDREW WORSDALE tackles his new film, Eraser AS a child growing up in Graz, Austria, Arnold Schwarzenegger was encouraged by his father to become a soccer player. Soon enough, however, the teenager discovered that his true passion was weight-lifting. Five years later, at the already bulging age […]
Kevin Mitchell says Atlanta’s juggernaut has left the Olympic caravan in need of urgent repair for Sydney 2000 and finds a growing belief that it can only move ahead with confidence if Juan Antonio Samaranch is ousted TO STUTTER and then triumph, as Michael Johnson did, surely defines the resilience and the brilliance of the […]
Jacquie Golding-Duffy Labour Party leader Tony Blair is expected to address the Commonwealth’s biennial conference to be held in South Africa in October. Chairperson of the organising committee and Cape Times editor Moegsien Williams says the conference is significant as it is the first time since South Africa walked out of the Commonwealth in the […]
Duncan Mackay AS THEY approached the bend in the 200m final, the leaders were even making their differences seem mere matters of style. Frankie Fredericks, the Namibian who finished second in the 100m five days earlier, ran so tall and long that Michael Johnson, with his lower knees and shorter gait, looked like a trotter […]