Not only did Shahid Afridi break the world record by scoring 100 from 37 balls, but he was also the oldest 16-year-old ever to play international cricket CRICKET:Neil Manthorp INTERNATIONAL one-day cricket has to produce something unbelievable these days to excite the pressbox. Generally, it’s all been seen before. And I mean genuinely unbelievable, not […]

Everything from gospel to kwaito features on Sipho Hotstix Mabuse’s first new album in five years. GLYNIS O’HARA talks to him YOU hear the name Hotstix and you think Burnout and Jive Soweto even though the songs are 12 years old. Then you say that it’s a pity, but Hotstix really hasn’t done anything to […]

While the UN reconsiders its mission in Angola, the SADC is rethinking its own obligations there, reports Joshua Amupadhi THE United Nations Security Council will decide this week whether to extend its costly operation to maintain Angola’s fragile peace. Meanwhile, fears that the Southern African Development Community (SADC) Organ on Politics, Defence and Security set […]

Joshua Amupadhi SOUTH AFRICA’S youngest national student organisation believes it has discovered a pool of support among campus students weary of “struggle” politics. Oddly, for South Africa, it is a mainly white organisation with a black leader. The South African Liberal Students’ Association (Salsa) promotes individualism, as opposed to collectivism. This, says its newly elected […]

With the South African selectors choosing two touring teams, and with their eyes firmly on the 1999 World Cup, young players have the chance to prove themselves RUGBY:Jon Swift ANDRE MARKGRAAFF, our national rugby coach – though this is perhaps too simplistic a title given his new exalted status – has made no secret of […]

Shirley Kossick THE MATCH by Ben Temkin (New Millenium, R65) BEN TEMKIN is the author of several non- fiction works, mainly in the field of finance. This is his first venture into comic fiction, but his sense of humour can be glimpsed in the witty title for his study of two stock exchange swindlers – […]

THIS new weekly section in the Mail & Guardian will highlight the scientists, technicians, researchers and engineers whose work will decide whether South Africa forever lags behind the global economy, or can move to the cutting edge. Statistics released by the Foundation for Research Development (FRD) this month show that South Africans score badly in […]

THE government’s planned tax holiday scheme will be up and running by the end of the month, says the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI). The regulations outlining the Act will be finalised by the end of the month and published in the government gazette. The tax holiday scheme will, in essence, provide for a […]

Current government communications was lambasted by Comtask, reports Anton Harber GOVERNMENT communications will go through a massive overhaul and fundamental restructuring if the recommendations of the task group on government communications (Comtask) are accepted. Comtask, which outlined the findings of its eight-month investigation at a conference in Caledon in the Western Cape last weekend, was […]

THE MTN Champions Tournament starts at Sandton Square, Johannesburg on Wednesday and although they’re a good few years older than when they lit up the courts around the world with their talent with a racquet, hopefully these players still retain many of the skills that made them such great champions. ORDER OF PLAY: Wednesday October […]