After the exposure last week of contracts asking athletes to `rig’ races, attempts were made this week to replace a signed contract with a `clean’ one, writes Julian Drew THE scandal over the “rigging” of races by Athletics South Africa (ASA) escalated this week with allegations that the country’s athletics chief, Bernard Rose, attempted to […]
Maurice Hamilton sees pitfalls ahead for Damon Hill in the race to realise his new team’s potential DAMON HILL has taken one or two gambles during his fight to reach the top in Formula One, but the surprising decision to join TWR Arrows is not one of them. Since his future prospects were already in […]
This year’s Booker Prize shortlist is one of the least controversial in years, reports ALEXBELLOS THIS year’s Booker Prize judges have fought shy of populism. In London this week they announced a predictable shortlist that includes four previously shortlisted authors. The judges, chaired by Carmen Callil, decided to exclude comedian Ben Elton’s satire on Hollywood […]
The biggest game in South African soccer at the moment is a slanging match. Stefaans Br?mmer and Stuart Hess look at some of the main players SOMETHING is rotten in the state of soccer. Claims of drug dealing, poison plots, bribery and corruption make for a rough-and- tumble in which the ultimate loser is the […]
Moves to grant legal recognition to customary marriages have opened the door to changes in the law’s view of who may marry whom, writes Ann Eveleth MARRIAGE law will change significantly if proposals tabled by the Law Commission last week are accepted. Yet the integration of customary and common law has complex implications for both […]
the kids into the clubs CRICKET:Jon Swift IT IS not beyond the bounds of reason to suggest that cricket is a way of life as much as it is a sporting pastime. The cricket club has become a home-away-from- home for more players, ex-players and just pure lovers of the game than perhaps any other […]
June Sinclair, University of the Witwatersrand vice-principal and deputy vice-chancellor, in THE MARK GEVISSER PROFILE JUNE SINCLAIR’S best friend, Etienne Mureinik, used to describe her as “a velvet fist in an iron glove”, she tells me. It’s three months after Mureinik – her successor as dean of the University of the Witwatersrand’s Law School and […]
Peta Thornycroft LONGREACH (Pty) Ltd failed in all its endeavours. It couldn’t sell its intelligence reports, it had only one customer for its security services, and it cost South African taxpayers dearly during its six years in business. Mike Irwin, a Briton recruited into Longreach by Craig Williamson, said he can’t recall performing a single […]
Marion Edmunds AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS members of Parliament have threatened a parliamentary inquiry into the party’s appointment of consultants if Deloittes and Touche win a R1-million contract for the transformation of the Correctional Services Department. This contract, should it go to Deloittes and Touche, may be the last straw on the camel’s back for many […]
Glynnis O’Hara spen a few hours behind bars – observing art projects intended to help prisoners find a creative outlet `I USED to be ashamed of my crime [kidnapping, possession of firearms and explosives],” says a prisoner in Diepkloof’s Medium C section. “Not any more. I’ve learned to forgive myself. I was an angry person, […]