Native tongue Bafana Khumalo HI there, South Africa! Are you still freezing your watchamacallits off? Here in the Big Apple, the sun is shining and the people would make Albert Einstein feel like the slowest student in a remedial education class. I am here as part of a group of eight journalists from Africa, each […]
Do we need standup comics? Robert Greig, encountering the genre, gives a qualified maybe IN the polite, liberal context of South African theatre, anyone called gross, self- indulgent or obscene is at least original. Ian Fraser is all of those things, which should prove the point. It does — and it doesn’t. He certainly pushes […]
They are completely surrounded by a Defence Force battlefield, but the Khosis refuse to move. Stefaans Brummer reports on a land dispute involving the ANC, the army and the residents A TINY Northern Cape community clinging to what is left of its ancestral lands in the middle of a South African National Defence Force battle […]
BUT YOU COULD LOSE YOUR FRIENDS More irksome status symbols than BMWs, cellular phones demand their own set of rules for users. Reg Rumney reports on cell phone etiquette YOU are lying on the beach, soaking up the sun’s pleasant if carcinogenic rays and listening to the soothing susurration of the sea’s waves. But what’s […]
Annie Mapoma FOR some refugees, South Africa is not the land of milk and honey. “We would rather go back and die in our country than stay here and suffer,” said two Rwandans being counselled this week by the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) in Johannesburg. Alexis Nzigimana (23) and Just Matata (22) are […]
Despite some disappointments the South African team has performed creditably at the Games, writes Julian Drew WITH a return of four bronze medals at the halfway stage in the Commonwealth Games, a success-hungry South African public may have felt a little disappointed at their team’s performance in the opening five days of competition. The truth […]
The Markets Jaques Magliolo WILL investors never learn that an extra percentage point is not worth the risk of losing all one’s hard earned savings? The problem, say the experts, is that most South African investors do not understand or believe they can protect their investment better than anyone else can. “Stockbrokers, analysts and portfolio […]
Sometimes called the Detroit of South Africa, the Port Elizabeth-Uitenhage economy is reeling from the effects of the automobile strike, writes Steuart Wright IN Tambo Village, a shack settlement outside Uitenhage, Prudence Ndika (35) doesn’t know how she is going to feed her family of four. A month ago her husband, Fezile Ndika (39), a […]
Hansie Cronje, looking for an answer to his own and his country’s cricketing problems, tells Paul Martin how he will handle captaining South Africa IN the Oval dressing room last Sunday after South Africa had surrendered its precious 1-0 lead in the series, a distraught Hansie Cronje told two of his team- mates: ”Sorry lads […]
With the Test series against England now shared 1-1 our man on the tour assesses the South African’s performance CRICKET: Paul Martin AS THE South African team trudged disconsolately up the steps after their eight- wicket Oval defeat last Sunday, Jonty Rhodes had stationed himself strategically ahead of the pack. In their moments of collective […]