Then Miss South Africa 1992, a Coloured woman, presented Mr Mandela with a gift.After the packaging came the speech: 27 years in prison (18 of them off the Cape Town shore) had made this his home, Mr Mandela said The ANC’s message was non- racialism ‘All of you, without exception, are my flesh and blood [...]

Gary Waldhorn plays Shylock as sympathetic and resigned to the evil around him.At the end Kelly invented a moving scene placing Shylock’s daughter, Jessica, who has run away to marry a Christian, beside a Jewish menorah (ceremonial candlestick), crying inconsolably as Jewish traditional music plays.David Thacker has gone even further. Suppose she played a sitcom [...]

When Fulham fell out of the old First Division in 1968, they took down the flags of its member clubs which adorned the Thames side but did not replace them because they were confident of a prompt return. In many areas of IT – increasingly called management services – your computing skills will be no [...]

In what may be the dying days of the old system, the one leading Italian businessman who said he was above its machinations has been embroiled in its demise.Mr De Benedetti faces charges of corruption alleging that Olivetti made payments to secure business with the Italian Ministry of Posts. In its case against Thomas Ward, [...]

She has two more indoor runs scheduled in the next fortnight before tackling her main objective of the spring, a series of three road races in California.The men’s 3,000m produced an encouraging victory for John Mayock, the European indoor silver medallist. SIR KINGSLEY AMIS: I don’t have to do any work if I don’t want [...]

Bondy was opposed to this, not just for selfish reasons, and was delighted when Lena Jeger’s campaign against it, to which he gave useful support, succeeded. Christopher Bucklow persuaded a noted gardener, the late Robert Garner, to graft a hawthorn on to a pear tree. The opening of a gap between the British and Dutch [...]

‘I don’t think the woman who was looking after us could have been doing a good job,’ he concludes.They remember being checked for bruises at school and say their foster father used to beat them.Jim, 18, has been the one constant in John’s life. He has a compound fracture of the right leg, a bullet [...]