Matthew Krouse Down the tube It would be dangerous to flippantly dismiss Felicia Mabuza-Suttle’s current attack on evil as a crowd-pulling attempt at sensationalism. But in the way she presents herself, Mabuza-Suttle gives one no choice. The first part of her double show on child abuse, broadcast on SABC1 on May 24, was a case […]
Alex Clark THE HOURS by Michael Cunningham (Fourth Estate) Michael Cunningham’s new novel – winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction -may have been inspired by Virginia Woolf’s Mrs Dalloway (working title: The Hours) but it quickly slips free of these moorings to become a far more daring, imaginative project than might be implied by […]
FACup Andrew Muchineripi Soccer For FA Cup read Bob Save Super Bowl, for Manchester United read Kaizer Chiefs, for Newcastle United read SuperSport United. The Red Devils defeated the Magpies 2-0 on the green turf of Wembley last Saturday and it would come as no surprise if the Amakhosi triumph by the same margin this […]
DEXTER CRUEZ, Colombo | Thursday 11.00am. SRI Lankans blasted their former cricketing heroes on Thursday for their dismal showing at the World Cup in England and said it is time captain Arjuna Ranatunga resigned. Sri Lanka, the shock winners of the 1996 World Cup, lost a crucial match against India by 157 runs on Wednesday, […]
Makhosini Nkosi The Inkatha Freedom Party could suffer a serious setback in KwaZulu-Natal if the African National Congress presses ahead with efforts to have the election in the town of Nongoma declared not free and fair. Senior KwaZulu-Natal ANC sources said the party intends bringing an application to the Independent Electoral Commission (IEC)to have the […]
Haroon Bhorat One of the key dilemmas facing the government is to eradicate, or at least reduce, poverty. The first step is to understand which are the most affected groups. In the labour market there are three groups which together explain more than 80% of the poverty in South Africa. They are unemployed people, domestic […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Kampala | Friday 11.20am SOME 40 Libyan soldiers have flown into Uganda — uninvited — in a “premature” bid to impose peace in the neighbouring Democratic Republic of Congo, a Ugandan minister said on Friday. The Libyan foreign ministry announced on Thursday that “Libyan forces have arrived in Uganda to form the vanguard […]
Charlotte Denny Uganda has added its voice to calls for an overhaul of the World Bank and International Monetary Fund’s (IMF) heavily indebted poor countries initiative (HIPC). In a letter to British Chancellor of the Exchequer Gordon Brown, Ugandan Finance Minister Gerald Ssendaula called for speedier debt relief. Currently, countries must spend six years on […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Cape Town | Thursday 4.00pm. A FORMER leader of the Democratic Party and veteran of liberal politics in South Africa, Zach de Beer, died at age 70 in Cape Town on Thursday after suffering a stroke. De Beer died at his Cape Town home, long-time colleague Colin Eglin said. De Beer quit politics […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Pretoria | Thursday 8.00pm ONLY 770 votes were cast abroad on Wednesday, preliminary figures released by the Independent Electoral Commission on Thursday reveal. Chief electoral officer Mandla Mchunu said total is a preliminary one as not all figures have reached the IEC yet, and exclude diplomats. Mchunu said he is not overly concerned […]
WEDNESDAY, 1.30PM: SOUTH Africa’s women’s hockey team lost their final pool match at the World Cup against Australia in Utrecht, but gave the girls from down under quite a runaround in the match, which ended at 5-2. The score may look like a walkover, but the Australians had to pull out all the stops to […]
Evidence wa ka Ngobeni An attempt to broker peace between two notorious Western Cape gangs by taking them to the mountains was sabotaged a week before it could start. The National Peace Accord Trust had arranged to take the rival gangster groups on a “transformation trail” in the Drakensberg in KwaZulu-Natal last week. The aim […]
Kate Wilson It used to be that food was only considered authentically African when consumed in a boma with 40 American tourists suitably appalled at the prospect of dining on the kudu they’d gleefully photographed on the game drive an hour before. South Africans’ first experience of the West African staple, Jollof rice, was probably […]
Peter Makurube For the next two weeks, Johannesburg city will be in feelgood mode because jazz pianist Pat Matshikiza is in town. His sojourn begins on Friday night (May 28) at the Bassline and ends next weekend when he heads for Kippies in the Newtown Cultural Precinct. Hopefully, Matshikiza’s presence in the city will rejuvenate […]
Phillip vanNiekerk >From the Editor’s Desk Back in 1987 I helped a friend who was standing for the Labour Party in the northern England seat of Grimsby in the election of that year. The constituency organiser was a man whose day job was a garbage collector for the council and he had a grimy set […]
Neil Manthorp in Amsterdam In time South Africa’s cricketers may reflect on the decision taken three weeks ago not to read any newspapers in England as one of the better ones during the World Cup campaign. Despite performances so compelling that not even English journalists could be disparaging, their coverage remains steadfastly tinged. The prevalent […]
Brave Over the last year and a half, Jann Turner has visited Eugene de Kock in jail several times. She found him angry and haunted `Eugene wants to see you. He says he doesn’t bear any grudges.” The call came from a lawyer I’d met during my work on SABC’s Truth Commission Special Report. Eugene […]
Robert Kitson Rugby England have a new captain, whatever the result of the Rugby Football Union’s (RFU) inquiry into allegations that Lawrence Dallaglio took and supplied illegal drugs may be. Martin Johnson, the captain of British club side Leicester, will lead his country on the forthcoming tour of Australia and the subsequent World Cup with […]
South African art history, such as it is, is marked by a pattern of selective amnesias and cyclical returns. Remembering Legae, the Goodman Gallery’s homage to this artist, who died earlier this year, is a return, if you like, that offers a fascinating insight into that history, a still point in which to consider the […]
RSI may be caused by confusing the brain’s electrical systems. To rewire it, your fingers need a discriminating sense of touch. So, Roger Dobson asks, anyone for a game of Braille poker? Forget painkillers, physiotherapy and surgery – playing poker with Braille playing cards may be the way to rid ourselves of the growing plague […]
The David Gleason Column Now that the euphoric Mandela years of transformation are about to become history, the hard part will begin. The imperative for the next president will be to deliver growth. And that, given the bizarre policy actions adopted by the Reserve Bank, is being made more difficult daily. Governor Chris Stals is […]
ERNIE Els exceeded his own expectations with a superb 66 to take an early lead in the first round of the Deutsche Bank-SAP Open on Friday. The 29-year-old South African had not played for five weeks after the Masters in April before arriving at St Leon-Rot to take on the best field in Europe outside […]
PRESIDENT Nelson Mandela will attend Saturday’s inauguration of Nigeria’s new civilian president Olusegun Obasanjo, his office said on Wednesday. Mandela is to leave for Nigeria on Friday, a presidential statement said. The president had originally been scheduled to address a major election rally in the Indian Ocean city of Durban on Saturday to mark the […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Harare | Thursday 1.00pm. THE World Bank says that for the first time since independence in 1980 Zimbabwe has failed to service its foreign loans on schedule, a report in Thursday’s independent Financial Gazette said. The Gazette said it had a copy of a letter from World Bank president James Wolfensohn to International […]
SEVERAL Zimbabwean soldiers are missing in the war in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, but the army will only give details when the war ends, a Zimbabwean newspaper reported on Wednesday. “It is only at the end of the campaign that I … will compile a report which details all we have lost in […]
ABOUT 10 men armed with AK47 and R4 assault rifles robbed a coal mine in Secunda of over R1-million meant for salaries early on Tuesday morning, police said on Wednesday. Police spokesman Inspector Sibongile Nkosi said the men stormed the Sasol Brandspruit Coal Mine at about 4.30am when a security company delivered the money. “About […]
LEICESTER manager Dean Richards on Monday backed new England captain Martin Johnson to make a success of his dramatic and sudden promotion following Lawrence Dallaglio’s decision to step down. British Lions skipper Johnson, who led Leicester to the Premiership title this season, takes charge of England following Dallaglio’s resignation, announced at Twickenham earlier on Monday. […]
A PETROL bomb has exploded at the house of a leader of South Africa’s United Democratic Front in Nyanga, a black suburb of Cape Town, police said on Wednesday. Nobody was injured in the attack on Erasmus Ndakane’s home in the area where five politicians have been killed in the run-up to South Africa’s June […]
MORE than five million Malawians have registered to vote in general elections on June 15, the electoral commission said on Wednesday. Chairman James Kalaile said the voters represent 102% of the projected number of eligible Malawians. Voter registration has been hit by a number of problems, causing it to be extended twice and forcing a […]
SOUTH African national under-23 coach Shakes Mashaba wants total commitment from his young Bafana Bafana for their first leg Olympic qualifier against Togo in Lome on June 13. “We will focus on tactical and technical work before we leave for Togo and will only play against local teams during our preparations for two weeks,” Mashaba […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Cape Town | Thursday 7.15pm AN election rally by opposition United Democratic Movement president Bantu Holomisa was disrupted at the University of Cape Town on Thursday by a rowdy group of African National Congress-supporting youths. About 1000 rowdy ANC supporters almost took charge of the rally, jeering Holomisa when he tried to speak, […]
A TENTH neighbour of Safety and Security Minister Sydney Mufamadi has become a crime victim, justifying claims the Andrew Murray Road in Bryanston is “crime street”. The latest victim is Andre van Heuvel, whose house was the second robbed this week. No arrests have been made in connection wth the break-in.