Alfie Cox is off on a mission to prove that nice guys can win Gavin Foster MOTORCYCLING Twenty-two times South African champion motorcycle racerAlfie Cox recenly left for Nice to participate in the week-long, 2 000km Tunisian Rally. “Third place, third place, third place. Now I’m tired of it,” says the man who dumfounded the […]
penises Brenda Atkinson The grand declarations by Judge Nigel Willis and the majority of the court – a savage mix of patriarchal gospel and capitalist economic imperatives – were appalling enough. But the clincher came from advocate Martin Brassey, SC, representing Woolworths, who, in a stunning display of updated Victorian misogyny, compared a pregnant woman […]
Byzantine world of cricket betting Vikrant Gupta and V Krishnaswamy in New Delhi When Hansie Cronje, or the Australians Mark Waugh and Shane Warne before him, tell us that they only “provided information and forecasts” and did not indulge in “match- fixing”, they fool only the naive. In fact, this “inside” information gives the bookie/punter […]
Khadija Magardie and Rachel Kelly Dr Werner Bezwoda, South Africa’s leading chemotherapist who admitted to misrepresenting research into breast cancer, has escaped censure from the Gauteng government after the province’s health department bungled its probe into the scandal that has rocked the medical world. Bezwoda, who was last month dismissed by Wits University’s clinical oncology […]
The fall of a South African idol … A beginner’s guide to the Hansie Cronje saga. Reports by Ivor Powell, Jaspreet Kindra, Neil Manthorp, Gavin Foster and Nawaal Deane When the dust clears on the fallout of the Hansie Cronje match- fixing bombshell, not only the credibility of the South African game, but the entire […]
Mail & Guardian reporter Hansie Cronje’s revelation of supporting bribery and corruption have shaken more than just the cricket establishment. The normally languid world of satirical cartooning also received a jolt on Tuesday as the Madam & Eve creative trio was putting the final touches to this week’s Mail & Guardian cartoon. The cartoon’s basic […]
Robert Kirby CHANNELVISION What I saw of last week’s television had a truly bizarre feel to it. It seemed the nuts had at last fully taken over the asylum. The Hansie Cronje affair alone produced far more than the permissible ratio of televisual dementia to sense. There was, however, one totally sane thing to emerge […]
Jean Spear It’s 32_C and it feels silly to be putting on snow boots. Sweat drips off bronzed, bikinied bodies, orange juice is consumed in large quantities and sunscreen is passed around the group in preparation for the great ascent. We synchronise watches and in the distance we can see K2. Well, actually, it’s K2 […]
Jesus bar Joseph, 33, a male Jew, was executed on Friday in the presence of family and friends. Rumours that he was seen alive two days later are rejected by the soldiers who conducted the crucifixion. “We know what we are doing. We do what we are told to do.” – Jerusalem correspondent Millions throughout […]
hearted Donna Block SHAREWORLD I can’t go anywhere these days without someone, anyone, asking me about the stock markets. It’s like they’re having a love affair with shares and all they want is to get more and more information and get involved on one exchange or another. But love affairs, like share prices, are precarious […]