RUGBY: Barney Spender HOW many eyes does a kiwi bird have? It is a popular question doing the rounds among the South African media, supporters and probably the players as well. The answer is usually deemed to be one at most and, in the case of some referees, officials and home supporters, none at all. […]
RUGBY: Barney Spender HOW many eyes does a kiwi bird have? It is a popular question doing the rounds among the South African media, supporters and probably the players as well. The answer is usually deemed to be one at most and, in the case of some referees, officials and home supporters, none at all. […]
Whites are still being prosecuted for refusing to attend camps, reports Stefaans Brummer SOUTH Africa’s new ministry of defence has come under fire for persisting with a whites-only call-up and prosecutions of those who fail to report for duty. While the Defence Act was amended last year to abolish white conscription and create a non-racial […]
Mail and Guardian reporter WHILE the number of organisations offering car allowances to employees continues to increase, changes to perks tax introduced last year have resulted in many employees preferring a company-provided vehicle. This was one of the most startling trends to emerge from leading human resource consultancy, FSA-Contact’s seventh annual car survey. Published in […]
Wisden editor Matthew Engel reports on South Africa’s return to the home of cricket LAST WEEK, when the touring South African cricketers were playing Durham on the little ground at Chester-le-Street, Wayne Larkins, a man who hits a cricket ball very hard, pulled a delivery from Allan Donald, a man who bowls a cricket ball […]
CRICKET: Paul Martin OLD Father Time, the most famous weather-cock in the world, swivels gently about the grandstand at Lord’s, the planet’s most famous cricket ground. The message for cricketers and spectators alike is that time catches up with us all, though judging from his still well-muscled physique, it has been kind to Michael John […]
The Mail & Guardian’s Stefaans Brummer visits the refugee camps along with the South African mercy mission A human tide, all carrying a load of precious firewood BENACO and its satellite refugee camps cover the fertile hills of Ngara in western Tanzania, a few hours’ walk from the Rwandan border. About 250 000 Rwandans, many […]
For astronomers it couldn’t get any better than this. But the people of Sutherland couldn’t have cared less about the Shoemaker-Levy 9 comet, reports Mondli waka Makhanya THE men at Sutherland’s South African Astronomical Observatory were as bubbly as nursery school kids at a birthday party as they prepared to view the first in a […]
Corruption, cover-ups and racism made rank and file kwaZulu Police force members go on strike, reports Farouk Chothia BEHIND the recent kwa-Zulu Police strike is the desire of ordinary policemen to break free from the Inkatha Freedom Party and promote their careers by being professional policemen in a cleaned-up force. At the centre of the […]
ONE of the more remarkable sidelights of the Pick ‘n Pay dispute has been the comment by the Democratic Party’s Douglas Gibson that as a developing country, South Africa “cannot afford militant unions much longer”. The National Party has also weighed in with calls for government intervention, saying that “unambiguous choices will have to be […]
“WHY have the killings stopped? Because we have overrun most of the country,” says Abby Muvunandinga, the Rwanda Patriotic Front’s young information officer at Losumo border crossing. In the gorge below, where the Kagera river flows from Rwanda into Tanzania, six bloated, naked bodies slosh in the water — another day’s crop from the killing […]
The North Sea Jazz Festival is one of the biggest in Europe. Morabo Morojele was there IF your idea of the best way to enjoy a jazz festival is to decamp in a grassy spot with a good view of the stage, then the North Sea Jazz Festival might come as something of a disappointment. […]
Labour Minister Tito Mboweni is pushing for yet another commission of inquiry. Instead, he should support the existing National Manpower Commission, argues Martin Brassey DURING his keynote speech at last week’s Labour Law Conference, Tito Mboweni mooted a new commission of inquiry into labour legislation. “We need a Wiehahn Mark II”, was how he put […]
POLICE handling of the Pick ‘n Pay strike was true to classic South African police policy, “If in doubt, panic,” said a British academic specialist in criminal justice and member of the South African Police Services international training team. Mike Brogden also said the style of crowd dispersal used at Pick ‘n Pay stores indicated […]
WRESTLING: Matlhodi Malope SOUTH Africa’s strongmen were thrashed on their home turf in last Saturday’s wrestling championship at the Sun City Superbowl, but the fans had a wonderful time. American wrestler Steve Austin succeeded in exposing one South African wrestler’s long-hidden identity after beating him in the 11th minute. Tornado II, who has been a […]
After being runner-up in the Open twice, Nick Price finally got his hands on the Claret Jug last weekend GOLF: Paul Martin THOUGH it’s flown trans-Atlantically with him, Nick Price still hardly ever puts his Claret Jug down. It overflowed with champagne on Sunday evening, causing a champion’s hangover, but on Monday after a three-hour […]
MOVEABLE FEAST Marino Corazza OUR hero throws a choice of shirts on the bed followed by a couple of pairs of trousers. Then come the jackets. He mixes and matches, crushed silk with extra light cashmere, linen with gabardine, Armani, Versace and Moschino, and Carvela croc shoes for that maximum understated effectiveness. On his way […]
My Life is unlike any of Athol Fugard’s other plays. With this workshopped production, he told Mark Gevisser, he, like this country, has started again FIVE teenage girls on stage, filled with adolescent hope and naivety, play out a parable for racial reconciliation simply by telling their stories. What on earth is Athol Fugard up […]
Violence erupted at Pick ‘n Pay stores this week as workers downed tools following the failure of pay talks. Vuyo Mvoko reports PICKET line violence and the mass arrest of union members this week are ominous portents for the nationwide strike at retail giant Pick ‘n Pay. The violence, following the failure of pay talks […]
The PWV will be hard-pressed to construct 150 000 houses a year, reports Drew Forrest THE low-cost housing field has become a house divided since Tokyo Sexwale’s PWV master plan was abruptly thrust into the public arena. “Crazy”, “Victorian Utopianism”, “not a real plan at all” have been among the reactions of sceptics to the […]
Hazel Friedman AT last! After much deliberation and volatile exchanges, selections for the South African curated exhibitions of the 1995 Africus Biennale have finally been made from 45 proposals and a scaled-down budget of R40 000. Sadly the selections have occurred against a backdrop of squabbling within the art community. If informed sources are to […]
Farouk Chothia FRESH allegations about a high-ranking South African policeman arming an Inkatha warlord three weeks after the April elections have heightened ANC frustrations in kwaZulu/Natal over the failure of Safety and Security Minister Sydney Mufamadi to act on reports linking Natal policemen to violence. The charges are contained in an affidavit by a man […]
Caring for traumatised penguins is a pretty thankless task — yet volunteers are queueing up to help the birds survive the Apollo Sea oil disaster in the Cape. Justin Pearce joined in THE plaster on the man’s forehead said it all. Feed a penguin, clean a penguin, nurture a penguin, and it doesn’t thank you. […]
Gary Player is one of the greatest golfers of all time. This week he sets yet another record: 40 consecutive British Open tournaments GOLF: Paul Martin IN 1955, a teenager called Gary Player turned up for his first British Open without booking a hotel room. The only one available at the coastal town of St […]
THE HOUSE THAT APARTHEID BUILT An exhibition at Wits jolts the viewer into perceiving afresh the history of black and white segregation in Johannesburg. Ivor Powell reports AS you walk into the exhibition (Setting Apart), you are confronted with long passages of text inscribed on plastic and suspended between sheets of glass. The exhibition is […]
* SALES of durable and semi-durable goods in the retail sector continued to recover after the elections, says the Bureau for Economic Research at Stellenbosch. The bureau’s nation-wide retail survey says the lower levels of violence and the spirit of reconciliation among political leaders after the election improved consumer confidence. Sixty-seven percent of retail respondents […]
JSE equity and bond prices show marked moves before major corporate and political announcements, writes Jacques Magliolo RESEARCH by the Mail & Guardian shows definite evidence of insider trading in equities and bonds linked both to corporate announcements and major political developments. To prove how widespread the insider network is, we conducted extensive research to […]
Drew Forrest BART DORRESTEIN is a true believer _ and those who question his dream are “doubting Thomases”. It’s a dream which extends beyond housing to “making South Africa an economically viable country” and even to the restoration of family values in black communities. Interviewed at his corporate headquarters in Rivonia, the tall Stocks and […]
Textile firms’ share prices are surging, but the industry is still in the doldrums, reports Jacques Magliolo MARKET experts play down last year’s 80 percent increase in textile industry share prices, saying the sector has “seen its good times and must now face the real world of Gatt, higher competition, strained profit margins and much-needed […]
Yasser Arafat and Nelson Mandela are the symbols of peace and hope in the 1990s, but in many ways Arafat faces the more awkward task. John Battersby reports WHY is it that you are more likely to hear Palestinians than Israelis making comparisons between the Arab-Israeli peace accord and South Africa’s transition to democracy? “The […]
* ANGLO American chairman Julian Ogilvie Thompson this week threw his weight behind privatisation, arguing it would strongly support rather than conflict with the aims of the Reconstruction and Development Programme. JOT suggested South Africa’s forests and commercial buildings be privatised first. JOT’s statement comes after similar urgings by visiting UK Board of Trade president […]
WITH the bogey of apartheid a thing of the past, South Africa is becoming a magnet for illegal immigrants from other African countries. By far the largest number of illegals continue to come from the Southern African region, show Home Affairs Department statistics. No less than 80 926 Mozambicans were repatriated from South Africa last […]