OWN CORRESPONDENT, Cape Town | Saturday 12.15pm. THE South African government is set to intervene on behalf of South Africa’s cricket captain Hansie Cronje and three other players, Herschelle Gibbs, Pieter Strydom and Nicky Boje who were charged with match-fixing by Indian police. “The South African government is to contact the Indian government to convey […]
THE high school pupil who allegedly threatened a teacher with a knife will be expelled from the school system after he was found guilty of attempted murder. The 21-year-old Andrew Babeile also stabbed a fellow pupil in the neck with a pair of sewing scissors outside the Vryburg High School tuckshop last February. Babeile will […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Sydney | Saturday 12.00pm. AUSTRALIAN Cricket Board officials said on Saturday the Australian team’s one-day tour of South Africa will not be affected by allegations of match-fixing involving South African captain Hansie Cronje and three of his teammates. The ACB would not comment on the allegations but chief executive Malcolm Speed confirmed it […]
PRESIDENT Thabo Mbeki has voiced his sorrow at the death on Thursday of Tunisia’s first president Habib Bourguiba and praised his efforts for the development of Africa. Bourguiba, Tunisia’s first president after independence from France in 1956, died after a long illness. He was 96. Africa “feels greatly indebted to the efforts of leaders such […]
Review: The Cider House Rules
Two enterprising souls are trying to breathe new life into an old movie-house in a Windhoek township, reports Andrew Worsdale.
The dispute over payments for feel-good flick Heel Against the Head continues, reports Andrew Worsdale.
Last weekend at the North Sea Jazz Festival, the Good Hope Centre floated on a cloud of sheer contentment Karen Rutter Only the most mean-spirited, music- hating, non-mellow bastard would be able to find fault with Cape Town’s finest moment this year, the North Sea Jazz Festival. Undoubtedly a success on the kind of scale […]
Marianne Merten Parliament has been warned of an impending collapse of university and technikon education because of drastically falling student numbers. The Council on Higher Education this week told MPs there were at least 100E000 fewer students at tertiary education institutions than predicted in 1995. And, the council said, the majority of students appear out […]
As I style myself from time to time as a former “war correspondent”, the horror film hit, the Blair Witch Project, was a bit of an embarrassment to me. To be frank, I’ve never been so terrified in my life. This was not the case with the winsome film producer who volunteered to accompany me […]