Julian Drew: Athletics Had the International Olympic Committee bowed to tradition rather than commercialism when it awarded the centennial Olympic Games to Atlanta, Josiah Thugwane’s marathon victory would have been framed with even greater significance. If the Games had gone to Athens not only would he have become the first black gold medallist in South […]
J G Ballard That William Burroughs lived to such an immense age is a tribute to the rejuvenating powers of a mis-spent life. More than half a century of heavy drug use failed to dim either his remarkably sharp mind or his dryly cackling humour. When I last saw him in London a few years […]
FRIDAY, 9.30AM: SPRINGBOKS are planning to upset the All Blacks by winning their Tri-nations match on Saturday despite being written off as no-hopers. Springbok prop Craig Dowd said: “It’s up to us to eliminate the mistakes we made in Johannesburg and Melbourne, and we know we can do it.” But Kiwi star Zinzan Brooke has […]
Geneticists say they can explain why little boys are slugs and little girls are sugar and spice. But Susie Orbach and Joseph Schwartz disagree There is a curious new twist to the latest skirmishes in the genetics and gender debate. After a century of medical theories arguing the essential weakness and inferiority of women, we […]
Wally Mbhele The Eikenhof saga took yet another dramatic twist this week when it emerged that a large portion of the crucial docket has gone missing amid new claims by three more witnesses that they were duped by police into giving false testimony against the accused in court. The latest confessions, including a witness who […]
Sechaba ka’Nkosi on Cosatu’s September Commission report A long-awaited report on strategy for the Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) threatens setting up a new left- wing opposition movement – if the African National Congress does not return to its socialist roots. The document, leaked to the Mail & Guardian, warns that if the […]
FRIDAY, 5.00PM: OUSTED Zairean dictator Mobutu sese Seko is welcome to return home, Democratic Republic of Congo Foreign Minister Bizima Karaha, on a visit to SA, said on Friday. Mobutu is receiving treatment for prostate cancer in Morocco, where he fled days after being deposed. The Moroccans are uncomfortable with his presence and have insisted […]
FRIDAY, 9.55AM: THE South African women’s cricket team won their second one-day Test match against Ireland by 34 runs in Dublin, Ireland on Thursday. South Africa struggled at first until Helen Davies and Darleen Terblanch put on 57 runs for the fifth wicket. Alicia Bezuidenhout helped South Africa to a total of 135 all out […]
against women Colleen Lowe Morna It is an indictment of all of us that Women’s Day 1997 should be celebrated in the shadow of Mamokgethi Malebane’s grave. The slaying of this seven-year-old a day before she was to testify against her self- confessed rapist is not only about the inadequacies of our bail laws; it […]
FRIDAY, 11.00AM PERSETEL and Q Data, two of SA’s biggest information technology companies, are to merge their operations in a R2-billion deal. In terms of the deal, which will create SA’s biggest computer comapny with R12-billion market value, Persetel will buy all of Q Data’s businesses and merge them with Persetel Holdings, to form a […]