GOLF:Jon Swift THERE has always been an intense feeling of=20 calm about the way Mark McNulty has gone=20 about his chosen profession. In many ways=20 he is the model every aspirant professional=20 golfer should strive to emulate. This unflappability probably first came to=20 the fore at a rain-soaked Bryanston Country=20 Club course fully two decades […]

THE Algerian agony gets worse. It also=20 becomes an even more intractable conflict.=20 More than 200 people have died since the=20 start of Ramadan. Those murdered by=20 government militia or in reprisals on=20 civilians are not listed. It is, like all=20 internal conflicts, vicious on both sides. The regime’s security forces use napalm,=20 torture prisoners […]

Closing radio stations may be part of SABC’s contingency plan to solve its cash crisis, reports Jacquie Golding-Duffy THE SABC has identified Radio SAfm and Radio Sonder Grense as two key operations it would consider closing should the corporation fail to resolve its cash crisis. These radio stations are only two of 11 loss-making stations […]

TELEVISION: Bafana Khumalo IF you’re ever up beyond 11pm on Sunday you=20 have probably been through the arty fare at=20 varying degrees of taking itself far too=20 seriously on SABC3. At this time you might =20 have had an experience called Our Voices.=20 This is a talk show in true talking-head=20 fashion. It is no […]

Shaun de Waal MARILYN MANSON: Antichrist Superstar (BMG) MARILYN MANSON has been called the Alice=20 Cooper of the Nineties, and he and his band=20 certainly have the appropriate schlock- horror look and act. The SABC has even=20 bestowed additional credibility on them by=20 refusing to show their latest video. The=20 music, partly produced by Nine […]

Hazel Friedman THE future of dance at the Performing Arts=20 Council of the Transvaal (Pact) – South=20 Africa’s largest arts council – is in=20 jeopardy after a spate of shock=20 resignations by senior ballet staff and=20 dancers. This comes amid growing panic over=20 the future of the Pact ballet and=20 contemporary dance companies. =20 At […]

CRICKET:Jon Swift THE problem with England’s cricket at the=20 moment is not so much the whining which=20 emanates from the benighted isle over its=20 failure to succeed, but that beating the=20 Poms gives very little real compass point=20 with which to judge the true value of the=20 sides that do so and, it must be […]

The truth about assassinations is making=20 news through the Steyn Report and the truth=20 commission Mail & Guardian Reporter The Mail & Guardian has a summary of the=20 Steyn Report, a document considered so=20 explosive that President Nelson Mandela=20 chose not to make its details public after=20 he was briefed about its findings in case=20 […]

An Mpumalanga task team flies out to check=20 the credibility of would-be nature reserve=20 magnate amid claims of dubious deals=20 overseas. Justin Arenstein reports A MULTI-PARTY task team from the Mpumalanga=20 legislature is visiting Kenya and Dubai to=20 investigate allegations against the Dolphin=20 Group, the company that was handed control=20 over the province’s prime nature […]

A trip to Xiamen reveals a thriving metropolis. Madeleine Wackernagel reports on China’s experiment with capitalism THE brand new, marble and chrome airport at Xiamen was the first surprise. The second, how busy the city was on a Sunday night. Street cleaners were out in force, McDonald’s was doing a roaring trade and everywhere there […]