The United Cricket Board is taking the game to the people, and not just South Africa’s people but to other countries in Africa as well CRICKET: Jon Swift THERE is a certain strangeness about the notion that international cricket will be played at Paarl. In the recent South African experience the Boland town is a […]

Itumeleng oa Mahabane=20 South African Airways said after inquiries this=20 week by the Mail & Guardian that it would withdraw=20 ”soft porn” movies — one a Playboy Entertainment=20 production appropriately titled ”Cover Me” — shown=20 on the airline’s first and business classes.=20 SAA head of corporate relations Felicia Mabuza=20 Suttle said it was not the […]

Coup in the Comoros: Mercenary Colonel Bob Denard=20 makes his final try for an island retirement — but=20 his comfort is short-lived as French troops arrive.=20 For South African tourists, the Comoros are a=20 pleasure-seeker’s paradise but, outside the hotel=20 precincts, an explosive mix of poverty and=20 political infighting threatens constant crisis,=20 writes Eddie Koch=20 […]

Samantha Weinberg, author of a biography of Bob=20 Denard, looks at the background to his latest=20 LAST Thursday, ”Colonel” Bob Denard rose from the=20 ashes of his mercenary career. Bolder and ballsier=20 than ever, he raised a finger in the air to the=20 French judicial system, political pundits and=20 keepers of the ”new world order”. […]

Justin Pearce MARIA SEKATANE proudly points out the photograph on the wall of her tiny sitting-room in Meadowlands, Soweto. In the picture, her son Montsheng stands next to Chris Hani. Both are in MK camouflage gear, and the tropical vegetation in the background tells that the photo dates to the years of exile. These days, […]

Meshack Mabogoane The National African Federated Chambers of Commerce (Nafcoc), the main black business organisation, which formed the African Bank and has been its main supporter, has spoken out on the bank’s difficulties. Nafcoc president Joe Hlongwane this week announced his organisation, whose members hold 35,3 percent of Afbank’s equity, is determined to get involved […]

Itumeleng oa Mahabane MeMBERS of the small community of Kagiso will no longer have to taxi-hop if they want some entertainment. They have just had Hollywood delivered to their doorstep, courtesy of Amos Zwane, and the Right Reverend Joseph Mabuela. Zwane (48) and Mabuela (42) are the owners of a Maxi Movies franchise, in Kagiso […]

CINEMA: Stanley Peskin LADYBIRDS are conventionally associated with children, fire and loss and it is these associations which are brought to bear upon the female protagonist in Ken Loach’s Ladybird Ladybird. The rhyming title does not in any way soothe the audience’s feelings. Rather it is submitted to a harrowing account, based on a true […]

President Mandela receives so many gifts that his staff cannot cope and he may have to build on to his house to accommodate the regular truckloads. Hazel Friedman peered into the treasure chest