Race scientists say intelligence is built into our genes – should we believe them? Gary Younge reports from London CHRISTOPHER BRAND is proud to be a racist. Not a mad, bad racist who sticks lit fireworks through Asian people’s letterboxes, or a violent nutter who attacks black people on the streets with broken bottles. Brand […]

TENNIS: Jon Swift IT is apposite, with the high-profile Champions Tournament taking the limelight this weekend at a venue which has caused the Sandton kugels to make a detour to the up- market shops around Sandton Square, to contrast this with the other end of the tennis spectrum and an event which happened last weekend. […]

THEATRE: Andrew Wilson ACTORS Greg Melville-Smith and Karin van der Laag deserve medals, not only for excellent performances, but for coping every night for an hour and a half with visionless direction and a clich-infested script. As the first tangible production from the Civic Theatre’s 1996 New Stages project, Please Hold I’m Coming, written by […]

MUSIC: Bafana Khumalo LAST weekend’s Soul Invasion Tour at the Johannesburg Stadium was a memory lane affair rather than a young-and-with-it bash where the latest trends in dance and music ruled the night. What with Randy Crawford leading the pack of late Sixties and early Seventies crooners; The Stylistics; those kings of funk Kool and […]

The escape of nearly 1 000 prisoners this year highlights fault lines in the over- burdened criminal justice system. David Shapshak reports THE parlous state of the South African Police Service was underlined yet again this week with the release of figures showing that more people escaped from police custody this year than from all […]

Stefaans Brmmer SOUTH AFRICA has joined the body of nations agitating for a complete ban on the production, stockpiling, transfer and use of anti-personnel landmines – but campaigners say South Africa should prove its bona fides by legislating a complete ban locally. Jackie Selebi, South Africa’s ambassador to the United Nations in Geneva, last week […]

consultants Lynda Loxton THE government is finding that trying to get to grips with the booming consultancy industry is as difficult as wrestling with an octopus. This emerged in the Parliamentary Public Accounts Committee when it considered the special report by Auditor General Henri Kluever on consultancy services. The committee heard this week that although […]

Eddie Koch EUGENE DE KOCK’S autobiography, hand-written in his cell, is being kept under wraps by the colonel and his lawyers because it contains deeply personal details about the man who became apartheid’s most ruthless killer. It describes his upbringing in a right-wing family on a plot near Springs. He attended the Baanbreker Primary School […]

Travel and leisure company Aventura looks set to be the first model for restructuring, writes Eddie Koch AVENTURA, the state-owned travel and leisure company, is being primed for privatisation, the culmination of three years of transformation from a loss-maker to a streamlined commercial enterprise. The Department of State Enterprises is planning to complete a draft […]