Charlotte O’Sullivan is gobsmacked by London’s Underground movement YOU’RE in a tube station in London and you see someone chewing gum maniacally, staring at a poster of Liz Hurley. Suddenly, he spins round and slap! There goes the gum, on to the end of Liz’s nose. What have you seen? Not an act of vandalism […]

Ann Eveleth Dr Luis Peraza has seen enough examples of post- revolutionary health care in his 61 years to convince him that South Africa’s current staffing crisis is little more than a “growing pain”. One of 99 Cuban doctors deployed in February to bolster South Africa’s overstretched medical system, the snowy-bearded doctor-revolutionary has worked in […]

Blanket RUGBY: Jon Swift TO ANY thinking follower of rugby, the margin between South Africa and the All Blacks at Christchurch this Saturday must be at least two tries. It is an interesting hypothesis if weighed against the perspective of national coach Andre Markgraaff, who has pinpointed a lack of success from the Springbok goalkickers […]

With the Centennial Games opening on Friday, Mick Cleary and Kevin Mitchell come up with the low-down on the Olympics, alphabetically speaking, from Athens to Zero ATHENS. Birthplace – of the Olympics (but passed over for these Centennial Games) — and birthplace, in Georgia, of Billy Payne, the real estate lawyer who brought the Games […]

South Africa is well on its way to developing a child-sex tourism trade which could rival Thailand or the Philippines, child-care workers warn. For as little as food for their family’s pots, children as young as eight can be bought in the Cape — and very little is being done to stop the burgeoning trade […]

Marion Edmunds AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS MP Philip Dexter does not have horns and a forked tail. But on the South African Communist Party’s 75th anniversary, he and other members of his party are persistently demonised by traditional opponents of communist ideology — and they are trying to shake off the guise. “It would be nice […]

SOCCER: Andrew Muchineripi SOUTH AFRICA staged the Rugby World Cup last year, the leading cricket nations will gather here in 2003 to battle for supremacy and Cape Town wants to host the Olympic Games one year later. Football has also got in on the act to a lesser extent, successfully staging the 1996 African Nations’ […]

Justin Pearce MPUMALANGA launched its provincial gaming board on Wednesday, putting itself months ahead of the other provinces. The result is Mpumalanga expects to issue its first casino licences by March next year, says Andre Wilsenach, the board’s chief executive. Most other provinces are talking of issuing licences in the first half of next year, […]

Ann Eveleth Minority Front leader Amichand Rajbansi has called for punitive legislation to prevent Inkatha’s KwaZulu-Natal finance MEC Senzele Mhlungu’s gambling interests benefiting from provincial legislation drafted by his department. Mhlungu’s recent announcement that he would quit his post in late August coincided with the adoption of provincial gaming legislation to end the mushrooming of […]

They came, they tried, they failed. To win at the Games means glory, yet those who muck it up in style deserve a mention too, writes Pete Nichols Thipsamay Chantaphone: Chantaphone celebrated his 19th birthday by competing in the 20km walk at the 1980 Moscow Olympics. The Laotian came last, half an hour behind the […]