Former Sunday Times editor Ken Owen disputes Kathy O’Dowd’s version of her trip to the top of Everest CATHY O’DOWD’S account of what happened on the sorry expedition to Everest, insofar as it deals with matters within my knowledge, is untrue. She would have done much good for her reputation as a journalist, and a […]

THREE weeks ago the Mail & Guardian attempted to provoke public debate with a front page editorial advocating the introduction of something along the lines of the United States primary elections to choose a successor to Nelson Mandela as leader of the African National Congress and – by implication – president of South Africa. The […]

M&G Reporter A fuss this week over a personal secretary to Nelson Mandela who posed for Hustler magazine offers an alternative explanation for the decline of South Africa’s porn industry: that the smut merchants don’t recognise a golden opportunity. Lilian Arrison, a secretary at the president’s official Cape Town residence, submitted her portrait to the […]

For many in Goma, Zaire, the arrival of Rwandan rebels means a better life than before, reports Chris McGreal THE first rebel recruiting table was set up outside Goma post office, a building which ceased to serve its original function several years ago when the Zairean government stopped delivering the mail. There were no volunteers […]

SOCCER:Andrew Muchineripi ALTHOUGH many have probably forgotten, it is the Coca Cola Cup final this weekend. The reason that many forget about this cup is that none of the so-called big guns has ever won the trophy, since its inception in 1992, when it was won by AmaZulu. On Saturday Bush Bucks play QwaQwa Stars […]

THEATRE: Andrew Wilson NEED relief from mind-dulling television? Take a dose of Death-Defying Acts on at Johannesburg’s Civic Theatre until December 21 – three brilliant, hilarious and incisive one-act playlets by David Mamet, Woody Allen and Elaine May. They are thematically interwoven glimpses of urban America, all employing sparkling dialogue to parody and penetrate the […]

Madeleine Wackernagel BRITISH AEROSPACE (BAe), a front runner in the bidding to replace the ageing Impala trainers, is taking a 20% stake in Advanced Technologies & Engineering (ATE), which supplies the integrated avionics systems for the South African Air Force’s Pilatus “Astra” trainer and the Rooivalk attack helicopter. The value of the shareholding was not […]

Jan Raath in Harare THE word “august” gets its very meaning from the Law Society’s annual dinner. The legal eagles of Zimbabwe gathered in black tie rectitude last Saturday in the Royal Harare Golf Club, with their wives softening the crispness of the occasion. Imagine Chief Justice Ted Gubbay without his shoulder-length horsehair wig, attorney- […]

Huge pressure has been put on ousted Free State premier Patrick Lekota to abandon the provincial leadership battle, angering ANC members. Rehana Rossouw reports from the turbulent province PRESIDENT Nelson Mandela this week offered Patrick “Terror” Lekota a Cabinet post if, for the sake of party unity, he agreed to withdraw from the contest for […]