CRICKET: Jon Swift IN SOME ways, the B&H final at Wanderers on Friday evening is cause for celebration of the cricketing rather than liquid variety which so marred some matches in the day-night series this summer. In other ways it is cause for regret. The enduring sponsor bows out of the game in this finale, […]

David Beresford The government appears to be hastily back- pedalling on an extraordinary plan to build a gigantic monument — at a cost of some R50- million — modelled on President Nelson Mandela’s hand as a “beacon of freedom” for South Africa. The disembodied hand, standing 23 metres in height and “breaking out of jail […]

AS the parties move into intense negotiations about “provincial powers” at an Arniston bosberaad, the African National Congress is trying to dismiss the suspicion that its latest drafts on provincial competencies do not comply with the constitutional principles, inherited from the multi-party negotiations at Kempton Park. The constitutional principle in question states that provincial powers […]

give-and-take The Constitution: The Constitutional Assembly has produced its last working draft of the final Constitution before the May 8 deadline. It will be finalised at a bosberaad this weekend, reports Marion Edmunds AFRICAN National Congress MP Willie Hofmeyr’s eyes are large pools of limpid exhaustion as he gazes onto the first page of the […]

Doc Martens will have been kitting out grannies and models for 36 years this week. Here are some vital statistics Age: 36 on April 1. Appearance: In your face. Meaning? As the footwear of preference for Britain’s skinhead community, a good kicking as likely as not involved a pair of Doc Martens. But surely that […]

It’s business as usual at the Community Bank, despite reports of a solvency crisis. But potential investors may take more convincing, reports Madeleine Wackernagel Reassurances have been flowing thick and fast that all is well at the Community Bank (CB). Drawing on the lessons of the African Bank debacle, the government took rapid action. The […]

plans to sue Gauteng Philippa Garson THE Gauteng Education Department is facing legal action for closing down a private school without giving reasons. When George Zachos opened a private high school next to his marketing college in Johannesburg, he didn’t bargain for the “nightmare” he claims he suffered, a nightmare he has “no words to […]

Millions of rands of taxpayers money is being used to defend apartheid’s generals. Anne Eveleth has been counting those costs and identifying the legal teams in the dramatic ‘Malan’ trial. OPENING the Durban Supreme Court trial of former defence minister Magnus Malan and 19 others earlier this month, KwaZulu-Natal Attorney General Tim McNally declared that […]

The Safety and Security Ministry’s gamble in banning traditional weapons paid off this week when IFP marchers left their pangas and spears at home, writes Eddie Koch A COMBINATION of firm policing and delicate negotiations with moderate groups in the Inkatha Freedom Party defied fire-and- brimstone predictions that the ban on traditional weapons would cause […]