16 MARCH 1991, page 30

Shiva Naipaul Prize

A BIT OF A HITCH HUMPHRY SMITH I WAS hitch-hiking out of Cape Town. I had gone about twenty miles, and had another thousand to go. Cape Town — called the 'mother-city' by white......

One Hundred Years Ago

THE parties in Servia are beginning to pass all bounds. King Milan has recently suggested that his own favourite Minis- ter, M. Garashanine, murdered two girls in prison,......