Staff Reporter

ALL tourist guides in South Africa will have to be registered with the government in future in terms of the Tourism Amendment Bill, which was tabled in Parliament on Friday. The new national registrar of tourist guides will be located in the Department of Environment Affairs and Tourism, replacing the register administered at present by […]

WITH a single wicket standing and 72 more runs to get to avoid the follow-on, Easterns are in trouble in their second A section match – a week after losing to Northerns by 222 runs with a day to spare. In fact, the rain which prevented play until 1pm and the bad light which ended […]

FOR four overs on Saturday, Griqualand West got the faintest smell of victory in their Supersport Series match against Eastern Province at St George’s Park on Saturday. It was then that the hosts collapsed from 220 for three to 225 for six and suddenly a game that had been destined for the draw heap, got […]

THE head of South Africa’s Medicines Control Council has announced that the abortion pill will be available in the country by the middle of 2000. Helen Rees said research into the use of non-surgical abortions in the public health system is to begin in January. Pilot programmes in urban and rural areas will be conducted […]

ROSS Veenstra struck twice in the first three overs of the day’s play to seemingly put Natal on the road to dominance. But mediocre support bowling and a defiant 71 not out from Praveen Amre helped Boland muster 91 runs for their last three wickets. Then Mark Bruyns and Doug Watson took off at the […]

Howard Barrell OVER A BARREL Opposition, as I have argued before, is too important to be left to the opposition parties alone. We also need to encourage a culture of intelligent criticism within the ruling party – the African National Congress. This is particularly so in the case of its parliamentary caucus – if we […]

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 […]

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 […]

Mungo Soggot A row is brewing between Transparency International’s South African arm and the Berlin-based secretariat of the international anti-corruption group after it revoked the South Africans’ mandate to run this week’s anti-corruption conference in Durban. It has emerged that the organisation’s secretariat in Berlin cancelled the mandate of the South African branch to run […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Bloemfontein | Friday 11.45am. VICTOR Mpitsang’s figures of 3-49 off 22 overs may not be spectacular, but hidden in them is the fact that Gary Kirsten and Jacques Kallis were among his victims. Kirsten was caught behind for 17 – a solid enough piece of bowling but nothing memorable. Not so Kallis’ dismissal, […]

Ivor Powell While Angola’s MPLA government continues to pursue its major offensive against Jonas Savimbi’s rebel Unita movement, recent events an ocean away could do more to influence the course of the 25-year civil war than any event on home ground. Though little information has been forthcoming from ongoing meetings of the newly inaugurated United […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

IN his first season after leaving the Wanderers, 23-year-old Neil McKenzie scored a career best 166 not out (321 balls, 19×4, 3×6) as the Northerns Titans had McKenzie’s old team on the rack after the first day of their four day Supersport Series match at Centurion Park on Thursday. Together with Gerald Dros (94), McKenzie […]

Tangeni Amupadhi reports on the run-up to Namibia’s general election For the first time since independence 10 years ago, the South West African People’s Organisation (Swapo) is not guaranteed a two-thirds majority in Namibia’s election scheduled for November 30 and December 1. Over the past five years, the ruling Swapo was a virtual monopolist 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 […]

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 […]

PRESIDENT Thabo Mbeki will on Monday deliver a eulogy for former Tanzanian president Julius Nyerere at a memorial service in Pretoria’s Catholic Cathedral, the president’s office said. He and a high-powered South African delegation would also attend Nyerere’s state funeral in Tanzania’s national stadium in Dar-Es-Salaam on Thursday, presidential aide Parks Mankahlana said. Mankahlana was […]

Paul Kirk In a little over a week Transparency International will publish its Corruption Perceptions Index for the fourth time. This is an international barometer of how corrupt countries are perceived to be by business. South Africa is fairly high on the list – a sign that business perceives it to be relatively free of […]

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 […]

precedent Stefaans Brmmer The Pretoria High Court decision this week to scrap six charges against apartheid’s “Dr Death”, Wouter Basson, may set a legal precedent allowing similar killers to walk free. The court ruled Basson cannot be prosecuted for poison murders committed abroad. One of the first judicial casualties may be efforts by the National […]

IVORY Coast player Max Brito, paralysed four years ago in the match against Tonga in South Africa and who now lives in south-west France, is to be guest of honour at the World Cup final next month in Cardiff. There had been speculation that Brito, still confined to a wheel chair, had been snubbed by […]

The Yfm studio is hosting the cream of South African ragga. Charl Blignaut talks to two MCs who have become DJs It’s a curious scene, no matter how far from a police state we might have come. It’s a sunny Wednesday afternoon in a patently leafy Johannesburg suburb and we’re outside a building called the […]

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? […]

Shaun de Waal Movie of the week If you haven’t yet tired of movies populated by American teenagers of varying degrees of sophistication, you will find writer- director Alexander Payne’s Election a superbly sardonic entertainment. It is a satire about democracy. How odd that sounds: who would want to satirise democracy? But democracy does not […]

SARAH BULLEN, Cape Town | Thursday 4.55pm THE Johannesburg Stock Exchange again began and ended the day softer on Thursday, yet again taking its cue from United States markets where Wall Street notched up a second day of sharp losses. At close of trade the all share index had dipped 1,07%, lifting before lunch before […]

Andy Colquhoun Rugby World Cup Once again the eager Springboks have been robbed of the reassuring sight of the Cary Grant of the South African game riding down the hill and into town. Sheriff Nick Mallett’s huge sigh of relief has been replaced by a tight- lipped grimace. Henry Honiball has again withdrawn at the […]

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, […]

be over Telford Vice Cricket Not another bloody perfect day, we might have thought, as we sank almost without trace into the cane chairs scattered around the pool bar at Nairobi’s Stanley Hotel. Except that the sky over South African cricket was far from an uncluttered Kenyan blue, despite the triumphant holding aloft of the […]

WITH neither able to take the initiative, Griqualand West and Eastern Province ended the first day of their Supersport Series match at St George’s Park in Port Elizabeth on Thursday all square. By close of play, Griquas had reached 282 for seven after a solid 76 from Piet Barnard and a risky 57 from Loots […]

The legal claims of 3 000 South Africans against a UK-based asbestos company are spotlighting the issue of multinational companies’ accountability for activities in developing countries, writes Richard Meeran The United Kingdom Court of Appeal has acceded to Cape Public Limited Corporation’s requests to halt the claims of 3 000 South African asbestos victims of […]