Patrick Goodenough in East London Former Transkei military strongman Bantu Holomisa took=20 a leaf out of the CIA’s book when he sent a military=20 signal to abduct a wanted man from Johannesburg in 1991=20 “like the Americans did with Noriega”. Holomisa effectively confirmed this week that=20 Vulindlela Mbotoli, the prisoner pardoned and released=20 on Monday […]
Barney Simon, theatre director and writer, born April=20 13 1932; died June 30 1995. Friends and colleagues pay=20 # Lionel Abrahams THE last time I saw Barney Simon was in January this=20 year at the memorial function for the late Joe Slovo in=20 the Johannesburg City Hall. Among the many eulogies=20 from a rack of […]
Clive Simpkins FREE enterprise is posing problems as South African=20 sexuality creeps out of the closet.=20 The vague limbo of the present censorship regulations=20 has led to a plethora of skin magazines and videos=20 flooding the marketplace. In many instances this has=20 led to grave concern by parents whose children are=20 unwittingly exposed to adult […]
If the stars don’t play, the spectators won’t pay to=20 watch the games — and that means less money all round RUGBY: Jon Swift IT IS ironic that the flashpoint between the Transvaal=20 rugby players and the province’s management should come=20 in the middle of Wimbledon. For, at the root of the impasse between the […]
Shadley Nash Less than a week after the Eastern Cape government=20 repeated its promise that 1995 was the year of=20 delivery, it endorsed proposals that will take food out=20 of children’s mouths. Cutbacks to the provincial government school feeding=20 schemes have been announced by the province’s Health=20 and Education Ministry in the face of acknowledgments=20 […]
Without going into any details, Masa has apologised for=20 its past errors, reports Pat Sidley THE Medical Association of South Africa (Masa) last=20 week apologised, seemingly out of the blue, for its=20 attitude during the apartheid years. The apology has been a long time coming, and it did not=20 directly address the issues for which […]
HERE are extracts from Goldstone’s report given to then=20 president FW De Klerksome weks before the April=20 Commisssion of Inquiry regarding the prevention of=20 public violence and intimidation. Report to the=20 International Investigation Team. 1. Introduction 1.1 In the first report dated 18 March 1994, the=20 Commission set out prima facie evidence of the=20 involvement […]
Win or lose on the field, the South African under-19=20 team’s tour to England is a victory for development CRICKET: Rupert Cox RUGBY may have stolen cricket’s thunder as far as the=20 media spotlight is concerned in South Africa, but when=20 it comes to development and expansion of the respective=20 games, Ali Bacher and the […]
Chris Louw MOVEABLE FEAST TO me, the Fountains valley near Pretoria holds merry=20 memories of late-night revelry after our newspaper –=20 the late Oggendblad — had been put to bed. That was=20 more than 20 years ago, but I still hear the sounds of=20 songwriter Koos du Plessis, then an unknown sub-editor,=20 singing Kinders van […]
CINEMA: Stanley Peskin THE OX, which has as its background the severe drought=20 suffered by Sweden in the 1860s, is described as a true=20 story told by director Sven Nykvist. The narrative is=20 presented with the utmost clarity, but not without=20 subtlety. Although the director is self-effacing in the=20 presentation of his ostensibly simple homiletic, […]