With four teams jammed at the top of the log, working out the permutations on paper is harder than playing it out on the field RUGBY: Jon Swift PERHAPS the greatest thing about sport is its unpredictability: the propensity of competition to turn the form book on its head; the sudden lapse of concentration which […]
US threats to penalise businesses trading with Cuba, Iran and Libya have pitted it against the European Union. John Palmer reports from Brussels THE European Union warned this week that it is heading for a serious diplomatic and trade confrontation with the United States over laws that would penalise European businesses trading with Cuba, Iran […]
Nelson Mandela, Dullah Omar and other Cabinet ministers are taken to task for breaking the law during last week’s Cosatu strike THE most astonishing feature of last week’s Congress of South African Trade Unions’ strike was not that it was unlawful, but that, even though it was unlawful, it was supported by the African National […]
Michael White and Seumas Milne in London ARTHUR SCARGILL, leader of the newly formed Socialist Labour Party (SLP) in the United Kingdom, has opened a new phase in the guerrilla war which small parties are threatening to wage against the Labour- Conservative hegemony at the coming general election. When the SLP was finally given its […]
CINEMA This year’s FNB Vita Art Now Awards were strengthened by being selective rather than widely inclusive, writes HAZEL FRIEDMAN. BABBIAGE” is the French word for a babble of noise, in which one voice is indistinguishable from another and sense is subsumed in a barrage of sound. If you looked for a visual equivalent, you […]
Mark Behr ‘I BOUGHT this huge tree to plant by the front wall,” a colleague says with a laugh: “I couldn’t get the hole deep enough so I walked across the road to where that white beggar always hangs around at the supermarket. I offered him R20 to dig the hole. He agreed and I […]
CINEMA Reviewed by: Derek Malcolm FEW opening films at the London Film Festival have caused such consternation as Kathryn Bigelow’s Strange Days. Yet, on the evidence of this futuristic epic (as well as Blue Steel and the highly successful Point Break), Bigelow is clearly one of the most proficient practitioners of pyrotechnical in-your-face film-making working […]
Constitutional law expert Dennis Davis takes a look at the pros and cons — and concludes that the new Constitution does us proud AT first blush, the Constitution of 1996 looks decidedly similar in structure and content to the interim Constitution which was cobbled together under the pressure of the Kempton Park negotiations. The significance […]
The Constitution has become a yardstick of the success and strength of the political parties … Marion Edmunds reports.
Eddie Koch THE lesson from this week’s truth commission hearings in Durban is that the effects of the organisation’s work can never be easily predicted. Instead of hearing evidence from mainly ANC- aligned victims — as was widely expected because of an Inkatha boycott — the commission ended up strengthening its non- partisan image and […]