After over-racing in previous years Martin Ndivheni is going for quality instead of quantity and hoping to achieve his Olympic Athletics: Julian Drew AN all-too-familiar story in South African athletics is the waste of talent brought about by over-racing in the pursuit of meagre earnings on the local road running circuit. The truth is that […]

Simon Segal Leslie Boyd, new chairman of Business South Africa (BSA), is used to the trenches of business politics. It was he who played no small part in the merger between the then Association of Commerce (Assocom) and the Federated Chamber of Industries (FCI) to form the South African Chamber of Business (Sacob). Boyd, also […]

The new Police Act may make provision for public participation, but the effectiveness of this community policing is questionable in a still white-dominated police force, argues Pule CURRENT debates and discussions around crime and policing in South Africa tend to focus on the inability of the newly-elected democratic government to curb crime and the incompetence […]

David Beresford tells the extraordinary story of how a young white South African couple, one a national sportsman, bombed the nuclear The inside story of how the African National Congress made a mockery of atomic security to pull off one of the most dramatic coups of the apartheid struggle — blowing up the Koeberg nuclear […]

Hazel Friedman “ORWELLIAN state interference,” claims Helen Suzman’s new liberal foundation of draft legislation proposing tighter control of South Africa’s NGO-sector — but many of the organisations who would be affected say the red alert is mostly a red herring. Formed to promote liberal democratic values, the Helen Suzman Foundation — due to be launched […]

Energy Africa Limited is Engen’s hope for future market improvements, reports Lynda After a lacklustre year, Engen has revived market interest with the decision to go ahead with plans to list its exploration and production business on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE). The new company, to be known as Energy Africa Limited, is expected to […]

Staff at the SABC and Sowetan are accusing their managements of kowtowing to the ANC, report Marion Edmunds and Rehana Rossouw Staff in the newsrooms of both the South African Broadcasting Corporation and Sowetan, the country’s largest daily, charge their independence has been compromised, and accuse management of “meddling” to curry favour with the African […]

Cinema: Andrew Worsdale MACHISMO meets facetious jokiness in Robert Rodriguez’ Desperado, the disappointing follow-up to his zany and spirited $7 000 art- house hit, El Mariachi. Antonio (baby-fat) Banderas plays the balladeer who travels with a veritable armoury inside his guitar-case as he proceeds to exact revenge on a druglord in a small Mexican border […]

Stand-up comedy is enjoying an international renaissance — and South Africans are getting in on the act, as DAVID LE PAGE MOST evenings at the moment, the Johannesburg Civic Theatre foyer is bustling with theatregoers missing a great opportunity: that of going to see — totally free of charge – — the Swopping Comics crowd […]

Jazz: Meshack Mabogoane THERE are musicians who use sound as the basis for working their beings into living monuments to creativity and expression. The sounds they produce are more than musical, however consummate their accomplishment; they convey something — the very depths, even — of the person. Both musician and music serve as conduits for […]