difference CRICKET: Jon Swift THERE is no real mystery about an umbrella being turned inside out by a sudden, unexpected gust of wind. Cricketing fortunes surely must work on this same inverted parabola. So it has been with the current test series against Sachin Tendulkar’s Indian tourists that reaches its finale at the Wanderers this […]

BRETT PYPER argues for and against maintaining and funding national symphony orchestras in South Africa An outcome to the question of how South Africa’s existing symphony orchestras will relate to the imperatives of a multi- cultural democracy has been a long time in coming. Last week’s announcement that the SABC will discontinue its funding of […]

Entry-level cars are proving to be the motor industry’s success story as new vehicle sales face a difficult year, reports Max Gebhardt After four successive years of buoyant sales, the motor industry is steeling itself for this year’s slowdown in the economy. While car-makers remain bullish for future prospects in the industry, 1997 should see […]

Frederick Chiluba is facing fresh claims in Zambia’s supreme court that he has no right to be the country’s president, reports Anthony Kunda in Lusaka ZAMBIA may have fresh presidential elections, if petitions to be filed this Friday by two opposition parties against President Frederick Chiluba in the country’s supreme court are successful. Five lawyers […]

The problem with Wits’s transparent process for choosing a new vice-chancellor is that there was no Plan B Mungo Soggot THE bombshell which Sam Nolutshungu dropped on the University of the Witwatersrand this week – that he would not take up the post of vice-chancellor – had as much to do with his nerve as […]

A clash between Kaizer Chiefs and Orlando Pirates is always full of drama SOCCER: Andrew Muchineripi IN Glasgow it’s Rangers and Celtic, in Liverpool Everton and Liverpool, in London Arsenal and Tottenham, in Milan AC and Inter, in Cairo Zamalek and Al-Ahly, and in South Africa Kaizer Chiefs and Orlando Pirates. There is nothing to […]

Charl Blignaut SOUTH AFRICAN music videos have once again emerged in competition as the cream of the crop in Africa. Six of the nine videos nominated for the R57 000 Best Music Video/Clip from Africa prize (Francophone countries excluded as they have their own award) at the highly influential annual Cannes Midem awards, hail from […]

Mungo Soggot DR MAKI Mandela, the state president’s daughter who led the affirmative action drive at the University of the Witwatersrand, has quietly quit the university for a top human resources post at parastatal Transnet. Wits and Transnet confirmed this week that Mandela had secured a post at Spoornet, the parastatal’s railway division. Transnet human […]

Marion Edmunds and Rehana Rossouw CABINET ministers are likely to come under fire from the African National Congress’s senior cadres this weekend over government failings in meeting its most ambitious election promise – a better life for all. It is difficult to divine how bitter the discussions at the lekgotla, which began on Thursday, will […]

Joshua Amupadhi Professor Sam Nolutshungu’s decision not to lead Wits into the next century caps a trying 14 months at one of South Africa’s pre-eminent seats of learning. October 1995: The Makgoba Affair. A group of senior academics accuses deputy vice- chancellor William Makgoba of mismanagement and of embellishing his curriculum vitae, sparking a row […]