With the formidable Australians and then the awesome All Blacks ahead, the Springboks cannot be expected to remain unbeaten RUGBY: Jon Swift THE thing that impressed so much about Kitch Christie as the coach of our national rugby team was that air of calmness about him. Christie, you felt, always had a game plan, a […]

THERE’S a lot to be said for slouching over a barstool, alcohol seeping through every crack and recording otherwise unrepeatable gems of wit and wisdom (yours and anyone else’s within slurring distance). That’s how Chris McEvoy has put together his material for Hollow, a searingly funny stand-up comic routine on the relationship between life and […]

IT’S common cause that the first desire one has on hitting the Grahamstown Festival is to get the hell out of there. Nervous breakdowns also tend to happen with alarming regularity. No one knows why. But most of us tend to stifle the onset of culture-phobia, don thermal underwear and join the heterogeneous hordes on […]

Business attacks labour clauses The prospect of renegotiating the constitution gives the ANC the jitters, repo rts Marion Edmunds The African National Congress’s constitution-makers are increasingly jittery t hat opposition parties will want to unravel large chunks of the constitution, should it fail certification, and be thrown back at the Constitutional Assembl y (CA) by […]

A Constitutional Court decision is a boon for debt collectors, writes Mungo So ggot DEBT collectors are cashing in on the legal havoc caused by a Constitutional C ourt judgment last year which effectively robbed the courts of the power to ja il debtors. Several attorneys claim debt collectors — both registered debt collection a […]

Did the AWB kill Vickus Swanepoel because he was a traitor — or was he kill ed in a car crash? Stefaans BrUmmer reports FOR two years Martha Swanepoel kept quiet about the death of her husband, who she believes fell victim to an Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging (AWB) plot becaus e he “ratted” on the organisation […]

Philippa Garson PROFESSOR Njabulo Ndebele appears to be out of the race for one of the country ‘s top academic jobs — the post of Wits University vice-chancellor. Ndebele, a keen favourite among a broad spectrum of academics and students, ha s neither applied for the job nor accepted any nomination. If Ndebele remains out […]

Philippa Garson A small-time bus company owner claims he has been ruined by transport giant Pu tco for daring to compete with it. Sam Joga, owner of Jika Bus Services, has the police and Putco after his blood and a team of mineworkers and criminal lawyer Lawley Shein on his side. Joga claims he has […]

SOCCER: Michael Walker THE flow of money and talent into English football continued at bank-bursting speed this week with Middlesbrough’s breathtaking announcement that they had signed Fabrizio Ravanelli from Juventus for 7- million. It made the 27-year-old Italian international striker, who has signed a four-year contract for a reported 1,3-million per year, the fourth most […]

Jacquie Golding-Duffy The threatened strike in the clothing industry over wage increases will be disastrous for the already crippled sector, says labour analyst Gavin Brown. The industry is on its knees, having suffered from massive closures, resulting in about 20 000 job losses in the past five years, he says. With the industry in the […]