Professor Charles van Onselen, Wits University historian, in THE MARK GEVISSER PROFILE PERHAPS the problem Charles van Onselen has, I think as we sit together on a Sunday afternoon, is that he looks — ; and sometimes sounds — like the enemy: bulging eyes beneath a balding pate, ware-ding khaki shorts, blustering physicality, bombast and […]

FINE ART: James Garner KROTOA’S Room — in the Grain Cellar at the Castle, Cape Town — will confound anyone with a penchant for reductive categorisations. Consisting of a photographic component by Lien Botha and “utility furniture” by Raymond Smith, the exhibition operates somewhere in the undefined territory between historical display, site-specific installation and commercial […]

The government is finally addressing the tertiary education crisis brought on by students unable to pay fees, reports Philippa Garson THE government will contribute a record sum of around R260-million towards a new loans fund to aid needy students next year — ; a sum five times greater than the R55-million set aside by the […]

CRICKET: Jon Swift For the South African players, playing against the English is a special experience, but beating them would be even better THERE is something very special about playing against England. South African opener Andrew Hudson is just one of the 11 men who face England in the current Test at Centurion Park who […]

Niel Bierbaum M-NET has refuted claims by the SABC that it earns 70 percent of its advertising revenue during its unencrypted open window. According to Clare O’Neil, manager of strategic planning and research at Oracle Airtime Sales, which sells advertising on behalf of M-Net, the pay station has “never earned R430-million of advertising revenue in […]

ATHLETICS:Julian Drew WHEN the iron curtain was swept aside in Bulgaria in November 1989 with the toppling of Todor Zhivkov’s discredited regime, the athletics career of Rumen Koprivchin crumbled too. Back then when his life and all around him seemed in turmoil he would have given short shrift to anyone who told him that in […]

Fascist groups are using the information superhighway to spread the word of Aryan supremacy, reports Bruce Cohen NEO-NAZIS and racists are spinning a busy web of hate on the Internet. Previously limited to private bulletin boards, a number of these sites have emerged on the World Wide Web, offering a chilling and fascinating insight into […]

Bruce Cohen Way of the dodo THE great guru of electronic media, Roger Fiddler, has sentenced Anton Harber to 10 more years. Fiddler, speaking at a recent conference in Bali, forecast the end of print journalism by the year 2005 and its replacement with electronic “tablets” and other digital media. He says the superior economics […]

Although the team will be without many of their foreign-based stars, there will still be some tough competition in the Four Nations tournament SOCCER:Lungile Madywabe POLITICAL turmoil in Africa has for a long time undermined the continent’s ability to fullfil its potential in world sport, especially the world’s number one, soccer, and the South African […]

A court case this week saw Winnie Mandela lose R100 000 following her failure to pay an air charter bill — and revealed some bizarre facts about her Co-ordinated Anti-Poverty Programmes, reports Justin Pearce A PRINCE telling a court of law he took his orders unquestioningly from “Mummy”. A church minister and self-appointed business consultant […]