Hilary Fine LIFESTYLE It is often difficult to characterise the individual players in this rapidly evolving genre of men’s general lifestyle magazines. All of them contain a standard mix of men’s interests: sport, money, cars, health, IT, music, movies and, of course, sex. All the local editions claim to be injecting their already successful international […]
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 […]
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 […]
Stephen Gray REVIEW OFTHEWEEK Arrived at last in Johannesburg – via the Pretoria Art Gallery, the Labia Museum in Muizenberg and the Bellville Gallery of the show’s sponsor, Sanlam – is the retrospective of the work of the neglected South African artist, Harry Trevor. Perhaps retrospective is too sweeping a description, as Trevor’s career was […]
A SOUTH African Air Force pilot was killed and three soldiers were injured when they were forced to land in Mozambican on Thursday. The names of the pilot and the injured soldiers have not been released, until their next of kin have been informed. SAAF spokesman Major Louis Kirstein said the soldiers were conducting a […]
Soon, wristwatches will tell you where you are, check your fingerprints and give you video conferencing Ashley Norris Right now one of the most interesting places on the planet is Casio’s watch R&D department. The company, once noted for its dull but rather useful digital watches, has been producing a series of extremely desirable gadgets. […]
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 […]
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 […]
in the ANC Howard Barrell OVER A BARREL A local historian told a colleague recently that he feared the African National Congress might be going doo- lally. “Why?” asked my colleague. For two reasons, the historian answered: one, the government seems intent on rewriting HIV/Aids science; and, two, the ANC appears obsessed about the Mail […]
A GROUP of Senegalese dancers who vanished after a performance in Berkely in the United States still had not been heard from on Thursday by the promoters who backed their US tour. More than half the members of Ballet d’Afrique Noire apparently opted to slip into the anonymity of the San Francisco Bay Area’s multi-ethnic […]
The battleground in Zim remains the farms where invasions are not only about land but also votes Chris McGreal in Wedza Comrade Edward Musuaka’s note was to the point. “The hour has come to take what is rightfully ours. You have clearly shown us that you have ill feelings against the land issue. If you […]
Andy Capostagno RUGBY Two years ago when the Crusaders came to Durban they were regarded as Super 12 interlopers. They had lost three of their first four matches in the tournament, together with the then All Black captain Justin Marshall, victim of an Achilles tear in the second match of the season. The Sharks had […]
Popular steel pan musician Andy Narell is back in South Africa to share a melting pot of pan-American sounds Nicky Blumenfeld Gentle and unassuming, steel pan virtuoso Andy Narell is otherwise “your regular kinda guy”. Besides the fact that he has a musical gift, what makes him different is that a series of chance encounters […]
John Brand Last week’s “Bosses mustn’t have babies”, was a shocking story. The shock, however, lay in the reporting, not the judgment. The story was a litany of twists and distortions, distressing enough in themselves but made doubly so when read in the light of the editorial, a few pages on, that employed the ringing […]
John Matshikiza WITH THE LID OFF I was 10 years old in December 1964. We had crossed the border between independent Zambia and a Rhodesia that was less than a year away from declaring its unilaterally independent status as a white-ruled entity that, said Ian Smith, would last for at least a thousand years. The […]
But the TRC’s extraordinary decision will not lay the controversy surrounding the young activist to rest Piers Pigou With the stroke of a pen and seemingly little thought or reasoning, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) granted amnesty in late February to the four men who confessed to killing student activist Sicelo Dlomo on January […]
Daniel Taylor There has not been such a kerfuffle in Stamford since its last famous resident passed away in 1809. The townsfolk have waited a long time to fte a home-grown celebrity, and the emergence of the archetypal local-boy-done-good could hardly have gone unnoticed in a town which is usually prefixed by the word “sleepy”. […]
The small town of Vermaaklikheid could provide a model for low-cost housing Barry Streek The Cape Town holidaymakers who descended on the southern Cape village of Vermaaklikheid 15 years ago were a mixed blessing for the local community. They created jobs – but they also created a housing shortage, buying sites and farm workers’ cottages […]
Barry Streek The South African Police Service (SAPS) has a shortage of 7E000 personnel and 371 vehicles, according to Minister of Safety and Security Steve Tshwete. It will need an extra R7,8-million to hire the personnel and R471,5-million to finance the vehicles, Tshwete said in reply to a question tabled in the National Council of […]
PHILIP “the time-bomb” Ndou will defend his WBA International title on the Lennox Lewis vs Michael Grant undercard on April 29. An added bonus is that Ndou’s bout, which is being staged at the MGM Grand Arena in Las Vegas, will be shown on HBO. To date Ndou, the current number-five WBA contender, has scored […]
NELSON Mandela has met leading political figures from battle-scarred Northern Ireland and spoken of the importance of compromise between enemies. “I was very encouraged to see that they are very committed to peace and that whatever the problems that confront them, they seem to be making a serious effort to address them,” Mandela told journalists. […]
GLOBAL solidarity is crucial if poor countries want to lift themselves out of poverty, President Thabo told delegates at the first presidential gathering of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) summit in Cuba. He said developing nations had to ensure that international institutions of governance, such as the United Nations, were democratised. He also called for the […]
AT least 14 people, most of them students, were shot dead by police in violent student demonstrations this week in Gambia, the government said in a new toll issued on Wednesday. A death toll released Tuesday put the number of dead at 12. It said 28 others had been injured in the clashes in and […]
TWO people were killed and 30 others injured on Wednesday when a speeding bus crashed through the barrier of a bridge and plunged on to a lower road in Cairo, police said. The injured, some of whom were in serious condition, were taken to three hospitals in the Egyptian capital. The accident which blocked a […]
SOUTH African coach Trott Moloto has named his squad for the second-leg Olympic Qualifying match against Lesotho on April 22 in Bloemfontein. The squad is the same as the one that beat Lesotho 2-0 in Maseru last weekend in the first leg of the qualifier. Bafana Bafana squad: Goalkeepers: Simon Gopane (Jomo Cosmos), John Tlale […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Addis Ababa | Thursday 7.00pm. ETHIOPIA will succeed in averting famine threatening some eight million people, Prime Minister Meles Zenawi said on Thursday while rejecting criticism that its war with Eritrea had exacerbated the crisis. Speaking after meeting with the visiting director of the UN World Food Program Catherine Bertini, Meles said: “The […]
THE United States is considering sending more food relief to Ethiopia to help avert a massive famine, but criticised the Addis Ababa government for continuing to spend money on war its with Eritrea while its people suffer. “The causes of the famine are clearly primarily a drought caused by three years without rain… had the […]
A TEENAGER has stolen and flown a two-seater aeroplane just six weeks after he was arrested for stealing another plane. Police said on Wednesday that the boy, 16, convinced a security guard to let him onto the Witbank airfield in Mpumalanga and eventually asked for the keys to the duty room so he could use […]
OWN CORRESPONDEN, Cape Town | Thursday 5.45pm. THE Stormers’ impressive 39-18 win last week over the Blues led to much eating of humble pie in South Africa and abroad, as the team from Cape Town laid down the gauntlet and played some fine rugby to hold their very meagre play-off hopes alive. This week the […]
SOUTH Africa’s men’s hockey side courageously went down 3-2 to Germany in the second match of the men’s four-nations hockey tournament at the Perth Hockey Stadium on Wednesday night. It was Germany’s second success against South Africa inside a week, following their 5-1 win in Sydney last Thursday. Germany took a comfortable half-time lead with […]
ZOLILLE Mbityi will become the first boxer in the world to have a world title fight shown live exclusively on the internet. Mbityi defend his IBO flyweight world title on April 13 in London and the bout, which is being promoted by Frank Maloney and the fightnight website, could cause a revolution in the broadcast […]
A PROBE by the Department of Correctional Services has found that jailed AWB leader Eugene Terre’blanche received preferential treatment when he was transported from the Potchefstroom prison to an outside hospital. “It appears that proper prison administration and security measures were not properly followed and disciplinary action against personnel is underway,” the department said in […]