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, […]

Justin Pearce NNTV this week cancelled a scheduled screening of the=20 documentary Jihad in America, following an onslaught of=20 complaints from angry Muslims. NNTV’s head of marketing, Red Metrowich, said the=20 station was initially determined to go ahead with the=20 screening, but the volume of calls had become so=20 “overwhelming” that NNTV had decided to […]

ATHLETICS: Julian Drew THIS year South African long distance track running has=20 finally emerged from the dark ages into which it=20 slipped during sporting isolation. For a nation which=20 is brimful of such talent, South Africa’s regression in=20 this domain was nowhere more glaringly illustrated than=20 by Matthews Temane’s national 5 000m record of=20 13:25.15. […]

Mapula Sibanda and Jonathan Ancer report on how ex- freedom fighters are using their military skills in=20 security companies When the South African National Defence Force (SANDF)=20 called on former freedom fighters to be integrated into=20 a national army some members of the Alexandra Returnees=20 Support Committee (Arsco) were not enchanted by the=20 offer to […]

Time magazine’s cover story on cyberporn has become the=20 centrefold of a raging row over its ethics and=20 accuracy, reports Bruce Cohen Accused of falling for a hoax of Hitler Diary =20 proportions, Time’s story is fuelling the growing=20 debate in the United States over censorship of on-line=20 services. Its Cyberporn issue is being waved […]

Rainbow volk It really was a motley collection of organisations that=20 came forward to represent the volk at their meeting=20 with Nelson Mandela last week — they ranged from the=20 Verkennersbeweging to Dames Aktueel and Jong Dames=20 Dinamiek, and from the Vereniging van Oranjewerkers to=20 the SA Voetplaat-Personeel Vereniging. What interested=20 the manne in the […]

The products may not be warm or comfortable, but=20 Hardwear is finding a growing market for clothes made=20 of scrap. MALU VAN LEEUWEN reports AFTER four years of obscurity, the curious products of=20 a Cape Town partnership are suddenly getting plenty of=20 attention. Hardwear (real names Michelle Vyncke and=20 Chris du Toit) is a small […]

The parliamentary ethics subcommittee is divided=20 over MPs’ outside financial interests, write=20 Eddie Koch and Marion Edmunds STRONG pressure for South African MPs to continue=20 earning lucrative salaries on top of their pay from=20 Parliament is coming from inside an ethics subcommittee=20 set up to devise rules on the controversial issue. Six of nine MPs […]