Maria McCloy ALAN DARGIN might just as well have been one of the stuffed koalas at the Australia tourist agent expo thing. He was sitting in the corner playing his didgeridoo while poshly dressed agents at Inanda Sun swanned about and ate lunch. Maybe they thought he was there just to create atmospheric Australian sounds. […]
SOCCER: Andrew Muchineripi AS the national youth team prepares to make its African championship debut on Monday in Morocco a debate almost as old as the game itself has been reopened. When it comes to a clash of fixtures, should a footballer play for his club or his country? Several Premier Soccer League clubs had […]
Our man in Havana finds the heirs of Teofilo Stevenson keeping up a noble tradition BOXING:John Duncan THERE is no laser show or dry ice at Cuba’s national boxing championships in the Ateneo Fernando del Dios Bunuel, an ugly concrete arena in the eastern sugar-and-beer province of Holguin. And the only people who are getting […]
tetchy THE members of the court represent some of South Africa’s finest legal minds, and as such can be intimidating individuals. They have been openly hostile to criticism, even that expressed in academic journals, and highly critical of press coverage. Here are opinions of some of their performance, expressed by clerks, academics and lawyers: Constitutional […]
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 […]