Flirting with bondage is a global trend. And, with the advent of sex shops and porn mags, South Africa is following suit. FRED DE VRIES reports IT is with a mixture of disdain, hostility and curiosity that passersby, on their way to a night of disco in nearby clubs, regard the weird tribal gathering outside […]
Pat Sidley IT’S midnight, you’re on the table at HF Verwoerd=20 hospital. You’ve been told that your life has been=20 severely limited by your ailing heart and lungs. In a shooting on the Ben Schoeman highway, a perfectly=20 good set of heart and lungs has become available — but=20 your surgeon cannot go ahead and […]
The much vaunted development programme is paying dividends on the Under-19 tour to England CRICKET: Rupert Cox WHEN West Indian batting star Brian Lara interrupted his busy schedule for a whistle-stop visit to help with the development programme last September, he confessed to being stunned by the raw talent he observed at cricket clinics throughout […]
He lives in Britain, but competes for South Africa, and at just 16 Alexander Heath has qualified for the world cup skiing competition SKIING: Julian Drew ALEXANDER HEATH’S parents probably rue the day when Odibe Mfenyana gave their eight-year-old son a pencil case at his farewell party in Cape Town back in 1988. That innocent […]
IN more than 45 years of investigative journalism,=20 Arthur Gavshon, who wrote occasionally from London for=20 the Mail & Guardian, broke stories and investigated=20 incidents that turned history on its head. Born in Johannesburg, he joined the Associated Press in=20 London in 1946.=20 ”As a journalist,” wrote colleage Tam Dalyell in an=20 obituary, ”he quickly […]
JUSTIN PEARCE discovered a generous, unaffected soul behind Joan Armatrading’s shaggy fringe JOAN ARMATRADING on record is an emotion-enriched voice and elusively perfect melodies that can move cynics to tears. Joan Armatrading on stage is a face grinning from behind a shaggy fringe of hair, an unaffected, slightly awkward manner, and a demeanour that defies […]
By adopting Die Stem as part of our national anthem, we have robbed Verwoerd of his legacy.
Justin Pearce South Africa is lagging way behind its neighbours in committing itself to internationally recognised human rights agreements — and Amnesty International (AI) has urged the government to rectify the situation and make the promotion of human rights a cornerstone of its foreign policy. “South Africa has a tremendous reputation and prestige in the […]
SOUTH Africa was a delegate at the International=20 Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) in=20 Cairo in September 1994. The conclusions emanating from=20 that conference have ramifications for planners not=20 only within governments but for marketers as well,=20 particularly in the light of our own Reconstruction and=20 Development Programme.=20 Given the shifts in thinking as […]
Anne Eveleth Thirteen people, including two children, were rushed to hospital this week after inhaling petrol fumes following a pipeline leak in the Durban South Industrial Basin. Residents of Merebank complained on Monday of strong odours from an underground pipeline connected to the South African Petroleum Refineries of Shell and British Petroleum (Sapref) in their […]