It’s time for South Africans to move beyond the furore over Allan Boesak’s Geneva posting, writes Peter Vale. This week’s report by the Commission for Global Governance highlights the real international challenges facing the country OUR Global Neighbourhood, the report released in Cape Town this week by Swedish Prime Minister Ingvar Carlsson and Sonny Ramphal, […]

Annie Mapoma MANAGEMENT at two of Johannesburg’s most popular flea markets, Rosebank and Bruma, are surveying their traders and intend taking serious measures against those who threaten the city’s flourishing flea market industry by overpricing. The issue was brought to light when customers complained they were being ripped-off by certain traders, especially on items like […]

ATHLETICS: Julian Drew WHEN Shadrack Hoff sliced more than five seconds off Matthews Temane’s eight-year-old national 5 000m record in Stellenbosch two weeks ago, it signalled the beginning of a new era for South African distance running. In the dark years of the apartheid inspired sports boycott distance running turned in on itself in this […]

ELANA MEYER will use tomorrow’s Old Mutual ASA international half marathon challenge in Cape Town to sharpen up for April’s Boston Marathon. The challenge is part of the Cape Town marathon and half marathon which features teams of two men and two women from Ethiopia, Kenya, Namibia and Zimbabwe as well as the South African […]

Inge Ruigrok A SHIP loaded with deadly nuclear waste, including weapons-grade plutonium, may sail through South African waters on its way from France to Japan within the next two weeks. The Cape Town-base Environment Monitoring Group has urgently appealed to the government to notify the Japanese government of South Africa’s formal opposition to these shipments […]

Critical Consumer Pat Sidley This is a sad tale about a dog called Gatting, named by his owners, the O’Keefe family, in 1990 after cricketer Mike Gatting, who was supposed to be heading up a cricket tour. The O’Keefe family’s three young children were attached to the dog, a highly pedigreed labrador with an unfortunate […]

Justin Pearce SOUTH AFRICA’S non-govermental organisation (NGO) community is reeling from the shockwaves of the allegations of theft and fraud made against Dr Allan Boesak’s Foundation for Peace and Justice (FPJ). Last week’s revelations of the scale on which money disappeared undetected from the FPJ have prompted NGO trustees to re-examine their roles and duties […]

BALLET: Stanley Peskin THE setting in Johann Strauss’ Die Fledermaus (1874) is Vienna and the river is undoubtedly the Danube, but although Ronald Hynd choreographs the famous waltz, the setting and river that come to mind in the quintessentially English Rosalinda (1978) — Pact Ballet’s first production of the year — are Mayfair and the […]

THEATRE: Guy Willoughby WHAT can one say about a play that tells two interrelated stories, separated by nearly 200 years, that take place simultaneously in the same room? Welcome to the casually unusual world of Tom Stoppard, a world whose oddity comes uneasily to resemble the one you and I live in. Stoppard has long […]

CRICKET: Jon Swift ONE of the oldest maxims in cricket, whether it be the one-day pyjama game or the more serious stuff of five-day tests, is this: you have to get the runs on the board to have any chance of succeeding. It is a truism which was rubbed into the noses of the South […]