AFRICAN club championship fixtures this weekend (first-leg score in brackets): Champions League: Preliminary round, second leg Kaloum, Guinea v Real Banjul, Gambia (2-0) First round, second leg Al-Ahly, Egypt v Maji Maji, Tanzania (3-0); AFC Leopards, Kenya v Rayon Sport, Rwanda (1-2); Raja Casablanca, Morocco v Ndiambour, Senegal (0-1); Cotonsport Garoua, Cameroon v Djoliba, Mali […]
The Mail & Guardian’s holding company, M&G Media Limited, has announced the appointment of Govin Reddy as its new CEO. A media executive with national and international experience, Reddy most recently served as the deputy CEO of the SABC. He steps into the shoes of Mike Martin, the M&G’s first CEO. Said Reddy: “There are […]
Jonathan Ancer When the train passed through Nelspruit, Kenneth Simango closed his eyes, took a deep breath and jumped. The Mozambican landed on the ground, bruised but unharmed. Simango (29) claims that while he was being transported from the controversial Lindela deportation centre in Krugersdorp back to Maputo, guards let him jump off the moving […]
Oupa Bodibe One of apartheid’s many enduring legacies is the culture of secrecy that pervades public and private sector institutions. Our Constitution recognises a right of access to information, and Parliament has to enact legislation by February 2000 to give full effect to this right. This week, the portfolio committee on justice held hearings on […]
A few years ago, I attended a lecture by a Canadian constitutional lawyer, David Beatty. Briefly, his thesis was that the most important task for a judge in a constitutional state was to balance the rights guaranteed in the Constitution with the provision that such rights may be limited by government action. In short, the […]
Andy Colquhoun Rugby There is a rhythm to the rugby season by which we followers of the game can measure out the advance of each year. The pungent scent of braaing meat hanging in the air of the Pretoria suburb of Sunnyside can only mean that the Blue Bulls are once more on the rampage […]
THE South African Under 19 rugby team got their 1999 IRB/Fira Junior World Championship campaign off to a winning start on Wednesday night in Newport, Wales, with a hard fought 17-12 victory over Newport Juniors. Wing Jacques Booysen, centre Jean de Villiers and lock Louis Holtzhausen scored the sides’ tries while talented flyhalf Daniel Philander […]
music day With top-class gigs happening across the country for an entire 24 hours, South African Music Day is set to take local is lekker to new heights. Michelle Constant takes the microphone The key to the very first South African Music Day (March 27) is not to find all the answers but to feel […]
BOWLS South Africa (BSA) said on Thursday it had banned Neil Carroll until August 31 next year for an anti-Semitic slur, overturning a lighter sentence handed down by the Central Gauteng Bowls Association. Carroll, who allegedly joked that he did not want to “play with that Jewish boy”, was suspended for two years by the […]
The Medical Schemes Act was amended last month to spread medical risks and costs. Kathryn Strachan reports Medical aid schemes are gearing up for a complete overhaul of their operations, with newly introduced legislation opening up new avenues and ending discrimination against the patient. Up to now medical aids have shared risk with the patient, […]
THE Breitling Orbiter III balloon, which made aviation history with the first non-stop flight around the world, was plucked out of Egypt’s remote Western desert by helicopter on Thursday. Two Egyptian army choppers took part in the salvage operation, lifting the vast balloon and putting it on trucks heading to Alexandria, ready for a sea […]
Hands up those who know what is happening to the qualifying competition for the 2000 African Nations Cup. Okay, both of you can put your hands down now and take a bow. Zimbabwe, awarded the right to host the first showcase of African football in the new millennium, has lost the tournament because it did […]
John Higgins It’s embarrassing to introduce an academic superstar to a small audience in a large hall. “There may be just my theory of literature class here,” I murmured, as we hurried towards the lecture, adding silently, “all 10 of them!” Could the unfashionable topic, “Marxism at the Millennium”, draw in the crowds on this […]
At first glance, wars in Southern Africa and Yugoslavia have little in common. Barely a decade ago American and Soviet strategists might have linked them to their global rivalry and to the risk of nuclear war. Today such conflicts are isolated, with external involvement responding to a new diplomatic drumbeat of regional solutions for regional […]
THE body of missing Ventersdorp mayor Philip Mashe was found on Thursday afternoon in a sunflower field 2km from the town, according to police spokesperson Captain Louis Jacobs. Mashe disappeared on Saturday after having withdrawn R4000 from his bank account in the company of one Bota Johannes Monatle (35), who was arrested near Lichtenburg on […]
… They thrill, move and amaze us, and they get bigger every year. Victoria Coren says it’s time we gave Oscars to the Oscars The Oscar show gets bigger every year. This time around it was a marathon five hours between the start of coverage and the closing credits. At the Oscar-watching party in my […]
THE Southern African Development Community Task Force is poised to establish a command structure to effectively rebuff a rebel onslaught in the east of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. “We felt that such a unified command structure will co-ordinate our forces and strategically combat fierce fighting in the east of the country,” Brigadier-General Denga […]
Peter Dickson Within a day of being spirited away overnight, Port Elizabeth’s stolen Sophakama High School turned up all over the place after a wild donkey chase in the city’s Kwazakhele township. Port Elizabeth community policing board chair Vuyisile Njikelana was on his way to work in Motherwell last Wednesday when he spotted a donkey […]
Neil Manthorp in Napier Cricket Hansie Cronje has an awful lot on his mind going into the last three one- day internationals of this New Zealand tour. All three games must be won for the series to be tucked away alongside the Test series victory and then, of course, there is the World Cup. The […]
n Women have two X chromosomes. Each X holds about 5 000 genes. A man has one X chromosome and one Y chromosome which only holds about 30 genes. n The male equivalent of nymphomania is satyriasis. n The vagina has a pH of 3,8 to 4,5. That’s more acidic than black coffee (pH 5), […]
Natalie Angier is a biologist with a poet’s gifts. Her previous book, The Beauty of the Beastly, redeemed the despised denizens of the animal underworld, the cockroach, the dung beetle, with wonderfully vivid presentations of their functions and evolutions. In Woman: An Intimate Geography, she charts the marvels and miseries of half of our own […]
NIGERIA has yet to launch an official campaign for their 2006 World Cup bid and a bidding committee is not even in place. Sports Minister Emeka Omeruah said earlier this month: “It will soon be constituted,” but time is fast running out with only a year to go before Fifa decides on the 2006 host. […]
The pilot radioed Luanda repeatedly: “Permission to climb; permission to climb higher.” It was the first clear indication of war in the provinces. The small Beechcraft plane, heavily laden, was struggling to its maximum air height to avoid possible Unita missiles as it flew over the city of Malange. Luanda had been subdued, but calm […]
divider Zimbabwe was once seen as one of the success stories of Africa after colonialism. But there are pictures which still tell a tale of division. In 1999, the issues are black and white, but also about class, writes Andrew Meldrum The Harare Club’s teak-panelled walls speak of years of tradition, privilege and exclusivity, dating […]
Mercedes Sayagues While Zimbabwean MiGs drop bombs on eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, back home the independent press is bombarded with other ammunition. Last Friday, 150 toyi-toying, flag-waving, fiery youths in Zanu-PF T-shirts stormed the building of The Standard. They burnt a copy of the newspaper and threatened to torch the offices if the paper […]
With most of the productions developed by community theatre groups, the FNB Vita Drama Festival is at the right place – the Windybrow Centre for the Arts, writes Bafana Khumalo The house is perched on a hill – a hill that a group of joggers use as a kind of masochistic obstacle course, running backwards […]
A NIGERIAN herdsman who discovered an 8500-year-old canoe has asked his local government to build him a house next to where the ancient relic is kept, the News Agency of Nigeria said on Friday. Malam Yau (59) appealed to the Yobe state government to provide him with a place to live as he received a […]
The universe is not going to continue to expand into infinity, writes Michael Brooks, but only until it falls apart – in about 15- billion years Is there such a thing as eternal life? Of all the questions mankind has wrestled with over the millennia, this one has been a consistent source of concern. Well, […]
Lisa Buckingham A new equities index, which will include the world’s largest and most international companies, is to start in London later this year. FTSE International, the organisation that operates Britain’s share indices, is about to sign a contract to run the new benchmark, which has the working title Global Multinational Index. A series of […]
David Gough in Nairobi and Martin Kettle in Washington A California lawyer who was suspended two years ago for “ambulance chasing” tactics is spearheading a series of legal claims – some against the United States State Department – by hundreds of Kenyan victims of last year’s US embassy bombing in Nairobi. According to some estimates, […]
The bombing of Belgrade is yet another warning that the USwill stop at nothing to secure world domination, writes John Pilger When the United States dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima after Japan had all but surrendered, the front page of the London Daily Express said: “This is a warning to the world.” When American […]
`The need to access computers has become one of the primary civil rights issues facing people with disabilities,” says Jim Fruchterman of Arkenstone, a non-profit body providing computer systems for the blind, . He is one of around 3 500 people with disabilities and their carers gathering with computer programmers, designers and technologists in Los […]