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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Barry Streek Production of maize in the former homelands last year fell to its lowest level in six years. Minister of Agriculture and Land Affairs Thoko Didiza told Parliament this week that during the 1999/2000 financial year, more hectares of maize were planted than in previous years, but only 415 729 tonnes were produced, and […]
Andy Capostagno RUGBY It was only a matter of time, really. South African rugby is in crisis, let’s find a scapegoat and ask Louis Luyt, if he’s not doing anything important, whether he would like to ride to the rescue. Things have been entirely too stable in the corridors of power, it’s time for the […]
Nearly half the illegal immigrants on a repatriation train last week jumped off before it arrived in Mozambique Khadija Magardie It’s early morning on the repatriation train to Mozambique, and police Captain Pieter Cloete, clad in a T-shirt and sleeping shorts, is running bewildered through the carriages. “Where are all the people?” he shouts – […]
Ex-prisoner 885/63 revisits Robben Island as his book on the subject is reissued Henk Rossouw When Indres Naidoo returned from exile, his nephew handed him a tattered photocopy of his memoir, banned in 1982. “It was still full of curry marks,” chuckled Naidoo as we drove down to the harbour to catch the early ferry […]
Howard Barrell and Jaspreet Kindra Jeff Radebe, minister of public enterprises, misled the Human Rights Commission (HRC) on Wednesday when he presented the submission of the African National Congress to the HRC’s public hearings on the media. Radebe told the HRC panel that Phillip van Niekerk, editor of the Mail & Guardian, wrote an article […]
Neil Manthorp CRICKET Herschelle Gibbs is to the South African cricket team what a glass of Eno is to the nocturnally reckless come the morning after – a welcome shot of effervescence and bubble. He’s the one who keeps the guys going when tours start disappearing over the psychological horizon; he’s the tension- breaker on […]
Deon Potgieter BOXING Tsietse Maretloane etched his name in the history books on November 14 1977 when he became South Africa’s first “supreme” featherweight national champion. The bout was a unification of the black and white national titles. Maretloane is a former minister who has turned his hand to promoting boxing. He seeks to honour […]