Jean-Pierre Rossouw MOVEABLE FEAST MANY classic yarns begin at the seaside, a weathered=20 jetty leading into the water, a few gulls screeching on=20 the bollards. Add a thin wind and a few locals casting=20 hand-lines over the edge, and you’ve got the setting=20 for a great adventure. Now put yourself in the scene=20 and, because […]

RUGBY: Jon Swift YOU can hardly blame the average rugby supporter for=20 being a bit confused about the future of the game. On the one hand, you have the International Rugby Board=20 (IRB), which meets in Paris next month to attempt to=20 sort out — among a host of things — the=20 dissatisfaction among the […]

Nelson Rashavah WE still have a lot to learn about the good and bad=20 aspects of soccer, we are told. Good quality=20 performances are judged not in pre-season friendlies,=20 but in competitive full-blooded battles of the English=20 Premier League or the UEFA Cup. The bit that comes with competitive football might be=20 absent but with […]

Mick Cleary meets Brian Mitchell, the trainer=20 championing Soweto’s ghetto blasters BRIAN MITCHELL drives a white top-of-the-range Corvette=20 sports car. There are many places you might choose to=20 park it in Johannesburg at night. The suburb of=20 Booysens is not one of them. But there, on the main=20 road to Soweto, alongside the shuttered windows, […]

FINE ART: Ivor Powell BARELY a year ago, painter and collagist Sam=20 Nhlengethwa was being hyped as the future of South=20 African art. His collages, it seemed, fitted into an=20 important cultural project: the reclamation, via the=20 found object, of an authentic urban African experience=20 from the distortions of history. His latest exhibition, at the […]

Chris Ball, CEO of the Cape Town 2004 Olympic Bid=20 Company for one month now, talks to Julian Drew about=20 the current state of the bid CHRIS BALL believes the 2004 Olympic Games “is quite=20 simply the biggest economic opportunity that South=20 Africa will ever have”. It is for this reason that he decided to […]

Meshack Mabogoane National Sorghum Breweries, (NSB), South Africa’s first, major black economic empowerment company, is again at the centre of controversy. The fatal shooting recently of top executive Khathuthseloe Mutshekwane has revived the doubts that surrounded NSB last year. As a flagship of black empowerment, its fate has serious political and business implications as it […]

A behind-the-scenes battle is raging in the government as state communication agency Sacs fights for its life, reports Gaye Davis A battle for the heart and sole of government communications policy is underway. The first shots have been fired in a series of behind-the-scenes skirmishes between government spokespeople and the central state information agency, the […]

Parliament is too big for its building and most political parties believe that the number of MPs should eventually be reduced, writes Marion Edmunds SIZE does count — especially when it comes to organs of government. Many people believe that the national Parliament could function more effectively if the National Assembly and the Senate were […]

Reg Rumney Between 1990 and 1994 the income of squatters in=20 Gauteng declined in real, or adjusted-for-inflation,=20 terms while that of hostel residents stayed much the=20 same and those living in houses were much better off. This is the finding of a Unisa Bureau of Market=20 Research report on income and spending of black=20 households […]