Eddie Koch=20 The right-wing movement in South Africa has advanced =20 nuclear weapons and can drop these on any town in the =20 country by using a squadron of Impalas or at least five =20 G6 cannons which are in their possession. This is the =20 most astonishing in a string of startling claims =20 […]

Gaye Davis=20 PAST and present National Party ministers and heads of =20 former bantustans could be called to testify before the =20 top-level probe into corruption and malpractice by the =20 former South African and homeland regimes announced by =20 President Nelson Mandela this week.=20 Presidential representative Joel Netshitenzhe said the =20 commission was expected […]

The local clothing industry is suffering under the weight of imports. Lynda Loxton reports The slow growth in clothing sales this year has been blamed on the flood of imported clothing which appears to be escaping custom duties. “The extent of imports that escape customs duty is a very worrying element for both retail and […]

As the race for league honours enters the final straight Orlando Pirates look like they have too much to do and Sundowns and Cape Town Spurs are battling it out in the lead Soccer: Lungile Madywabe WHILE a Jackpot or a Pick Six carry-over is always received with sighs of disbelief by punters, soccer followers […]

Anant Singh, independent film producer, in The Mark =20 Gevisser Profile=20 You want to know what chutzpah is? I’ll tell you what =20 chutzpah is. Chutzpah is being a little nudnik from =20 South Africa at Cannes and getting Whoopi Goldberg to =20 be in your next low-budget movie by promising her a cut =20 […]

The complex process of merging six spy agencies =20 has created more internal problems for the National =20 Intelligence Agency. Eddie Koch reports=20 South Africa’s chief spook threatens to blow away his =20 wife and kids in their Pretoria home. The mysterious =20 death of another top intelligence agent exposes =20 ideological differences that will […]

Rugby: Jon Swift RUGBY’S decision to open the doors to paid players has produced a xenophobia seemingly more iconoclastic than anything ever dreamed up by the human engineering of the apartheid system. The latest ruling effectively ends any contribution foreign players may make to the domestic leagues worldwide … if they want to continue playing […]

A small group of mavericks is culture-jamming the consumer society, writes Bruce Cohen Grab your favourite spot in front of the television and watch closely for 15 minutes. Then, switch the set on – – but keep the sound off. Or pick up a magazine and in your mind write a parody of one of […]

Fine Art: Hazel Friedman If the success of an art exhibition were predicated solely on theoretical justification, then Persons and Pictures: The Modernist Eye in Africa (Newtown Galleries) would be a winner. The fact that, in visual terms, it translates into a slightly uneven display of works executed in the vocabulary of a bygone genre […]

The flipside of the university fracas=20 * AS a former SRC president of the University of =20 Durban Westville (1993) and currently a member of the =20 executive of Convocation, I am concerned about the =20 negative reports that it has received in the press and =20 I have begun to believe that the press […]