AS the Truth Commission comes into being, it is as well=20 to dispel some of the humbug surrounding it. There are those who argue that this commission will=20 discover that strange phenomenon called The Truth. Even=20 if we were naive enough to believe that truth was=20 something a group of wise people could find in […]
Until now a secret, SA’s classification of potential=20 arms-buying countries reveals 30 blacklisted countries,=20 reports Stefaans Brummer NIGERIA, Libya, Sudan, Iraq, Yemen … These are some=20 of the 30-odd countries blacklisted by South Africa’s=20 new human rights-leaning classification of arms client=20 countries. The secret list is published by the Mail Guardian today. The classification is […]
GOLF: Jon Swift THE South African Professional Golf Association (SAPGA) is bidding to include three European Tour tournaments in this year’s event roster. In this, there is potentially a lot of long-term benefit. But there is some less than welcome news in the shorter term. It could be argued that the inclusion of the Lexington […]
The Western Cape has come out tops as South Africa’s most competitive province in a report issued this week on the competitiveness of the nine provinces by the Foundation for Research and Development (FRD). Gauteng ranked second, followed by KwaZulu/Natal, Free State, Eastern Transvaal, North-West, Eastern Cape, Northern Province and Northern Cape. The provinces were […]
CINEMA: Stanley Peskin FRANCO ZEFFIRELLI’S Sparrow is imitation Luchino Visconti (perhaps a homage to The Leopard) and ersatz James Ivory, in particular A Room with a View, which it resembles on a number of occasions. Sparrow is undoubtedly expensive and opulent, but ultimately it emerges as no more than a dime-a-dozen Zeffirelli film. Here is […]
Flirting with bondage is a global trend. And, with the advent of sex shops and porn mags, South Africa is following suit. FRED DE VRIES reports IT is with a mixture of disdain, hostility and curiosity that passersby, on their way to a night of disco in nearby clubs, regard the weird tribal gathering outside […]
Pat Sidley IT’S midnight, you’re on the table at HF Verwoerd=20 hospital. You’ve been told that your life has been=20 severely limited by your ailing heart and lungs. In a shooting on the Ben Schoeman highway, a perfectly=20 good set of heart and lungs has become available — but=20 your surgeon cannot go ahead and […]
The much vaunted development programme is paying dividends on the Under-19 tour to England CRICKET: Rupert Cox WHEN West Indian batting star Brian Lara interrupted his busy schedule for a whistle-stop visit to help with the development programme last September, he confessed to being stunned by the raw talent he observed at cricket clinics throughout […]
He lives in Britain, but competes for South Africa, and at just 16 Alexander Heath has qualified for the world cup skiing competition SKIING: Julian Drew ALEXANDER HEATH’S parents probably rue the day when Odibe Mfenyana gave their eight-year-old son a pencil case at his farewell party in Cape Town back in 1988. That innocent […]
IN more than 45 years of investigative journalism,=20 Arthur Gavshon, who wrote occasionally from London for=20 the Mail & Guardian, broke stories and investigated=20 incidents that turned history on its head. Born in Johannesburg, he joined the Associated Press in=20 London in 1946.=20 ”As a journalist,” wrote colleage Tam Dalyell in an=20 obituary, ”he quickly […]