Andy Colquhoun If a camel is a horse designed by a committee then a Rugby World Cup designed by the International Rugby Board (IRB) is quite clearly a camel’s derrire. What a dreadful, wasted opportunity this rambling, shambling, stumblebum of a tournament is turning out to be. Saturday marks the end of the pool stage […]

Eddie Butler Rugby World Cup The round-figure mathematics of fame. It is easy to call John Eales the best player of the Nineties because his career fits so neatly into this decade. He obviously has better icon value than, say, David Campese because Campo straddled the Eighties and the Nineties. So untidy. Besides, Campo was […]

Andy Capostagno Rugby World Cup The worst thing that could have happened to the Rugby World Cup duly occurred on Saturday at Twickenham. For an hour England and their fans in the stands and among the media were confident that the ogres from New Zealand could be beaten. At 16-16 northern hemisphere rugby really was […]

Andrew Muchineripi Soccer When assessing the chances of a national soccer team, a conflict often develops between the head and the heart. Should scribes be patriotic or should they be honest. At the grave risk of having my trousers ripped by barbed wire while sitting on the fence, I want to express my fullest support […]

Online cads had better watch out, writes Veronique Mistiaen You are one smitten cybernaut. Your in-box is abuzz, full of sweet words. You can already see his blue eyes; her beautiful smile. Your Internet flame is everything you ever wanted. If you can’t believe your luck, maybe you shouldn’t, warns Linda Alexander, a California lawyer […]

Alex Dodd ‘There is nothing pretty here, whether the work is of the 1960s or the 1990s,” writes the director of the Courtauld Institute of Art in London, Professor Eric Campbell Fernie. Fernie is writing about the work of South African artist Cecily Sash who this month returned to South Africa after 24 years in […]

Jane Martinson SHARE WORLD A leading technology analyst has warned that only a handful of online companies will survive in an industry that will be worth several trillion dollars within the next decade. Henry Blodget, Internet analyst at the United States investment bank Merrill Lynch, believes three-quarters of all existing US Internet companies will fail […]

Shaun Harris TAKING STOCK Pensions are an important and sensitive issue. A working person has a vision of what their financial position will be after they retire, and all too often that vision does not match up to reality when they reach retirement age. Retirement statistics in South Africa are depressing. For example, it’s estimated […]

Q & A Mpho Mutula, 22, co-presents South Africa’s first youth sex talk show, Jika Jika, on SABC 1, with Pule Hlatshwayo. Mutula, who grew up in Soweto, studied environmental health at the Pretoria Technikon. She has worked as an environmental coordinator and presented the late-night music show, Channel O. What is Jika Jika’s aim? […]

Mail & Guardian reporter Product: Psion Revo (32-bit ARM 710 Risc chip running at 36MHz, backed by 8MB of ROM and 8MB of RAM) Price: R3 500 estimated Psion, the British manufacturer of palmtop computers, this week unveiled the Revo, a smaller, cheaper version of its Series 5mx handheld. Even for a seasoned Psion user, […]