Grandad is in jail but his boys are still on the terraces in a country which sponsors football hooliganism SOCCER:Amaranta Wright ON a Sunday in the football season the Buenos Aires stadium of the Boca Juniors Club is heaving, but for an empty strip behind the goal, reserved as usual. Suddenly, tearing through the pre-match […]
educates … is illegal Focus on drugs: Be it dagga or cocaine, from KwaZulu-Natal to Colombia the only way poor rural communities survive is by growing illegal crops Eddie Koch and Enoch Mthembu THE lives of three people who live in different places along the banks of the Tugela, a majestic river that dissects some […]
ANGLO AMERICAN’S new mining business division has been actively exploring potential projects in East Africa for the past two years, and this week the mining giant announced a tie-up with a Canadian junior, Sutton Resources, to take a majority stake in the Kabanga nickel-cobalt project in Tanzania. The mine is in the far west of […]
Kwame Dawes SALT by Earl Lovelace (Persea, R107) IT has been over 10 years since Earl Lovelace published his last novel, The Wine of Astonishment, so it is wonderful that Salt has been honoured with the Commonwealth Prize. It is his most assured work to date, and it allows him to display his remarkable capacity […]
PRESIDENT Nelson’s Mandela’s youngest daughter, Zinzi Mandela-Hlongwane, was found in a suspected stolen vehicle in Soweto on Wednesday night.
Nicholas Whittaker in London THAT Mr Polaroid has a lot to answer for. Picture this muddy snap, for instance, of a naked man on a hotel bed. Passing behind his knees and around the back of his neck, a doubled-up inner tube trusses him into a human hoop, head tucked well down towards his groin. […]
Glynis O’Hara IF you switch on your radio and think you’re hearing Celine Dion singing Unbreak My Heart in Zulu, you won’t be far wrong. It is Unbreak My Heart in Zulu, dubbed Khululua Inhliziyo Yami, but instead of Celine belting it out, it’s Faith Kekana. A long-time music stalwart, she’s done backing vocals for […]
The shark is well-known as a dangerous and efficient killer. But its full nature is not understood, writes Ellen Bartlett FOR all the exposure it gets every time it bites or kills someone, the great white shark is a poorly understood animal, maligned in science and fiction alike as an evil but mindless man-eater. Perhaps […]
Barbara Ludman JOSEPH SEREMANE sat with the audience all day on Tuesday during truth commission hearings at the Old Fort, the former prison in Hillbrow. The commission was running well behind schedule, but still Seremane, the chief land claims commissioner, sat hour after hour, a spare, dignified figure, his back barely touching the back of […]
I, Goitseone Gordon Moshoeu, generally known in the African National Congress as Godfrey Pule and particularly known amongst members of the MK June 16 Detachment as Grenade, hereby wishes to give an account of the terrible plight that befell Timothy “Chief” Seremane, popularly known as Mahamba amongst both the ANC in general and specifically MK. […]