After her heroics at the Olympics Penny Heyns took a well-deserved break. Now she has gone back to America to `stroke’ her way back to fitness SWIMMING:Julian Drew AT last year’s South African swimming championships Penny Heyns gave notice to the world of what they could expect four months later in Atlanta. Her stunning world […]
Mpumalanga Parks Board’s controversial boss has had his powers cut while the Dolphin deal is modified, reports Justin Arenstein THE Mpumalanga government has moved to clip the wings of its outspoken parks board boss Alan Gray over the controversial deal with the Dubai-based Dolphin Group. The deal would have given Dolphin exclusive commercial rights over […]
Gustav Thiel PEOPLE of colour do not listen to classical music. Right? Wrong. The biggest achievement by a regional community radio station must be that of Fine Music Radio (FMR) in Cape Town. The radio station bucked traditional perceptions of classical music as an “elitist and inaccessible” genre of music by successfully enticing black and […]
Jacquie Golding-Duffy GLOOM and doom is the prevailing mood among staffers drifting along the corridors of the SABC headquarters in Auckland Park. “The only glimmer of good cheer is the presence of the Hare Krishnas who, aside from American consultants McKinsey, are the only group to be coining it,” chuckled one staffer. Within days of […]
Like Rome in decline, McDonald’s conquests abroad have left it heading for a fall on the home front. Ed Vulliamy in New York and Cal McCrystal report OVER an Oklahoma ridge they rumble in perpetual motion, tens of millions of churning feet destined to sustain an empire and satisfy a growing imperial hunger. Below the […]
MEAT is meat … uh, no, we started with that one the last time a hunk of beef won the Mail & Guardian’s design of the week award. But the nutrition principle remains the same. Except that this time it comes from a billboard poster produced by an anonymous androgyne with a penchant for producing […]
Jacquie Golding-Duffy INDEPENDENT producers have still to be convinced that the SABC’s planned internal production cutbacks will prompt the broadcaster to hand them more work. Many producers say more work will have to come to the independent sector, but others argue the SABC’s cutbacks will simply put more producers into an already competitive market. Most […]
A R60-million European Union aid package to Zambia has been rejected by the government on grounds of racism, reports Anthony Kunda in Lusaka THE Zambian government has rejected a European Union aid package of R60-million earmarked for its Agricultural Sector Investment Programme (Asip) as it would benefit the Zambia National Farmers Union (ZNFU). Minister of […]
The shortcomings of South Africa’s top order batsmen that led to two defeats by the Australians have revealed South Africa’s real place in the Test hierarchy CRICKET: Jon Swift OUR singular lack of success in the current Test series against Australia which winds its weary way to conclusion at Centurion Park over the next five […]
Young girls selling sex in hotels, young boys selling sex on the street – child abuse is rife in South Africa Stuart Hess PLAYING in the street with her friends, she looks like any ordinary four-year-old girl. Wearing a dirty pink polkadot dress, Thembi (not her real name) plays happily, but her smile disappears when […]