TATTLE AND FLATTERY
By Richard Steyn
Some of the milder comments about this candid memoir include "tawdry", "sensation-seeking" and "a breach of trust". It is by Britain's former ambassador to the US before and after 9/11, Sir Christopher Meyer. Widely regarded as one of hi...

RUDE NO MORE
By Neil Pendock
Racial stereotyping is far from dead. Take the Irish and their legendary love of alcohol, for example. When it comes to his Irish exports, Seymour Pritchard rounds up the alcohol levels of his Clos Malverne wines. For everyone else, he round...

TALL ORDER FOR GRAEME
By David Williams
Interesting theories have been put forward to explain the abject collapse of the SA cricket team at Newlands last weekend. They lost by seven wickets inside three days after setting Australia 95 to win. Anticlimax, coming back to earth, ...

DID YOU HEAR ?

The Proteas' heroic performance to clinch the ODI cricket series against Australia earlier this month may soon be eclipsed by an even more incredible feat by one Joe Wudla, sports commentator for the SABC's Zulu-language radio station, Ukhozi FM. ...

IDENTITY IN OILS
By Michael Coulson
Some interesting shows this week, with for once a predominance of oil painting and an exuberant trio who clearly enjoy the classic medium. Hollis's inside anonymous is in a sense the most conventional of the three, with boldly paint...

HEAD FOR THE HOLS
By Justice Malala
"The upside to (public holiday-induced) sloth is that you can drive around Jo'burg and just pick a restaurant" HHH Icon 51 Greenfields Road Greenside Tel: 646-4162 *****Divinity itself ****More, more, please sir! ***Good **T...