With the Test series against England now shared 1-1 our man on the tour assesses the South African’s performance CRICKET: Paul Martin AS THE South African team trudged disconsolately up the steps after their eight- wicket Oval defeat last Sunday, Jonty Rhodes had stationed himself strategically ahead of the pack. In their moments of collective […]

Hansie Cronje, looking for an answer to his own and his country’s cricketing problems, tells Paul Martin how he will handle captaining South Africa IN the Oval dressing room last Sunday after South Africa had surrendered its precious 1-0 lead in the series, a distraught Hansie Cronje told two of his team- mates: ”Sorry lads […]

DREAMTIME, LINK, SCRAMBLE, ODDBALL VARIATIONS FOUR women choreographers have contributed ballets to the second season of Pact Dance Company this year, but only Elisa Monte’s Dreamtime foregrounds a woman as her subject matter. Candice Johnstone’s Link is loosely anthropological, and Mandy Rabin’s Scramble and Susan Abrahams’ Oddball Variations not only have titles of similar bent […]

NATIVE TONGUE Bafana Khumalo BROTHERS and sisters of all hues, religious beliefs, sexual proclivity and shape of nose, don’t go to America. The Americans don’t want you. This discovery I made recently at the American consulate in Johannesburg while trying to go about the business of getting a visa to visit the land of the […]

Allan Donald, South Africa’s most potent weapon to clinch the test series against England, opens up with a bout of self-criticism CRICKET: Paul Martin IN his appearance, delivery and demeanour Allan Donald is closer to the smoothness and sophistication of Jeff Thompson rather than to the anger and aggression of Dennis Lillee. Yet South Africa’s […]

Lesley Cowling JUDGE John Didcott may still sit on the Constitutional Court despite being passed over by President Nelson Mandela last week. Mandela will have to choose another six judges from a list of 10 compiled by the Judicial Services Commission — and the commission is almost certain to include Didcott. The JSC called for […]

Weekly Mail Reporter RURAL advice offices play a pivotal role in community development and it would be “development suicide” if donors withdrew their funding, said Mpho Ndebele, director of the Social Change Assistance Trust (Scat). She was responding to a report in the Mail & Guardian last week which said Eastern Cape advice offices were […]

Eddie Koch IF you want to be Hemingway but support the animal rights movement, there is a solution. It’s called eco-hunting and involves shooting elephants in the Zambezi Valley with splatballs made of luminous environment-friendly paint. A company in Johannesburg conducted market research in Europe and found that many modern-day hunters shoulder a contradiction. They […]

If South Africa is to host the World Cup successfully next year the boardroom battles have to stop immediately RUGBY: Jon Swift JUST for a moment, think back to the uncertainty which dominated this country before the first clarion call of democracy was sounded, the new flag raised and our new state president installed. In […]

SYMPATHY FOR THE DEVIL, HIGHWAY 61 Primal Screen Festival, 7Arts, Johannesburg IN a story that sounds apocryphal but isn’t, Sympathy for the Devil director Jean Luc Godard whacked his producer Iain Qaurrier on the nose, on the stage of the National Film Theatre in November 1968 on the occasion of the film’s London Film Festival […]