Yearly Archives: 1999

We hear that Free State Premier Ivy Matsepe- Casaburri may soon be without a job. Perhaps it is opportune now for Parliament to give her old job back to her. The SABC needs a new board and, while the jury is still out on her premiership, there are few who will deny that she was […]

For some, Nigeria’s election is merely a merry-go-round of the same people responsible for the country’s problems, reports Chris McGreal from Lagos The party of former military ruler General Olusegun Obasanjo has won Nigeria’s parliamentary elections. But a low turnout in Lagos and other major cities testified to widespread scepticism about whether the National Assembly […]

Neil Manthorp in Auckland Cricket The strange thing about Mark Taylor’s last 18 months in charge of Australia was the ruthlessness with which his players were tossed out of the Test side when he considered them surplus to requirements. When conditions suited someone else, someone different, Greg Blewett, Darren Lehmann, Paul Reiffel, Damien Fleming, Michael […]

children are growing up in war’ Once agian the battered town of Kuito is suffering the consequences of Angola’s never- ending civil war, writes Mercedes Sayagues Ahmed Mohammed is very angry. He is staring at a handful of new steel nails he just bought at the market. “These are my nails and I paid 500 […]

David Shapshak Products: HEWLETTPACKARD 620LX and COMPAQ C- SERIES 2010c palmtop computers Requirements: Windows 95, CD-ROM I’ve avoided owning a palmtop for several years because the few advantages they offered (a contacts book and a diary) were not much of a trade-off for a keyboard too small to type on. Stylus-based interfaces were also problematic […]

Jackie Davies South Africa’s acting ambassador to the United States, Ndumiso Ntshinga, is about to be accused of human rights violations next week when his South African nanny applies for political asylum in the US. Ntshinga flew the young Eastern Cape woman to the US on a work visa as a nanny in 1996 but […]

With strong support from traditional leaders, the UDM is becoming a force to be reckoned with in the Eastern Cape, reports Chiara Carter Five chiefs have made themselves available for nomination by the United Democratic Movement – a move likely to bolster support for the party which appears poised to become the official opposition in […]

Brenda Fassie is back in Soweto this weekend to thank her countless faithful fans for their support registered through massive sales of Memeza, her hot new album. Fassie has had a long relationship with this teeming city. For many years she’s traversed the length and breadth of the vast township, lauded by young and old. […]

Shirley Kossick FRIEDA AND MIN by Pamela Jooste (Doubleday) Second novels are notoriously difficult to write, especially when the first one has been a popular and critical success. Pamela Jooste need not have worried, however, as Frieda and Min, though not as consistently appealing as Dance with a Poor Man’s Daughter, has a good story […]

Nhlanhla Hlongwane Thursday night at Yeoville’s House of Tandoor is reggae night and, until the wee hours, it’s the place to be. The house has a rotating pool of DJ crews who fling the full spectrum of reggae and hip-hop. The two main crews in Johannesburg that deal with reggae are the Sounds of Edutainment, […]