Stephen Gray Review of the week Well yes, it was a great pleasure on a day trip from Johannesburg last week to become a feverish festino at the second ever Aardklop National Arts Festival in leafy, springy, villagey Potchefstroom. To be part of not just one, but three, full houses for new shows ordinary people […]
Charlene Smith Five weeks ago a 13-year-old Johannesburg schoolgirl was raped by two classmates aged 13 and 14. One is the grandson of one of South Africa’s pre-eminent political leaders. They are at school and she is not. She is too terrified to return to the small eight-pupil class at the private school she attended […]
Gomolemo Mokae One of Robert McBride’s am-nesty co- applicants is the man who gave evidence against him when he was sentenced to death three times, Mathew Lecordier. Lecordier turned state witness to avoid prosecution. He was with McBride when they planted the car bomb which took the lives of three white women at the Why […]
Khadija Magardie Members of the local Muslim community have expressed outrage at proposed plans to build a $15-million Islamic centre in the heart of one of the city’s most affluent suburbs. The project is being financed by the Saudi Arabian government. The centre, which will comprise a mosque large enough for 2 000 worshippers, and […]
The new Phakisa Oval in Welkom is upstaging Kyalami as South Africa’s premier racetrack, writes Michael Finch Silverstone, Estoril, Monaco, Monza …Welkom? A year ago, the suggestion that the sleepy northern Free State town would play host to a major international sporting event would have brought a wry smile to any face. Compared to the […]
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SOLID top order batting, ordinary bowling and a flat pitch conspired in Northerns’ favour on the opening day of their Supersport Series match against Easterns in Benoni on Thursday. The most important piece in the puzzle was a second-wicket partnership of 134 between Quentin Still and Neil McKenzie. That aside, it was a useful enough […]
THE United Kingdom and the United States have pledged to bolster the treatment of Tanzania’s former president, Mwalimu Julius Nyerere, who is critically ill at the Saint Thomas hospital in the UK, an official source in the Tanzanian capital Dar es Salaam said. Nyerere is suffering from chronic lymphocytic leukaemia. A medical report issued on […]
ENGLISH wingers Austin Healey and Dan Luger have been told there is only one way to stop New Zealand’s Jonah Lomu in the Group D showdown at Twickenham on Saturday – throw dung in his face. As right-wing, Healey, one of the smallest players in the competition, is in line to to play opposite the […]
MICHAEL VLISMAS, Cape Town | Thursday 2.45pm. BRADFORD Vaughan will be aiming to become the first player to win back-to-back titles on the Vodacom Tour this year when the R200000 Vodacom Series: Western Cape tees off at the Rondebosch Golf Club on Friday. Vaughan claimed his first victory in two years when he won last […]