Yearly Archives: 1999

As the West Indies wind up their humiliating cricket tour of South Africa, they have very little hope of regaining their lost grandeur of the Eighties, argues Cameron Duodo No one will feel as devastated by the 5-0 whitewash of the West Indies by South Africa more than Windies captain Brian Lara. Lara ran into […]

David Shapshak and Joyce Barrett The Cape Town Olympic bid team knew an International Olympic Committee (IOC) member was “available to the highest bidder”, but it did not make use of this information to influence the bid. Caught up in the biggest corruption scandal of the IOC’s 105-year history, disgraced Swaziland IOC member David Sibandze […]

Belinda Beresford Perhaps it’s the scars of a wild youth, the aftermath of a delinquent spouse or the legacy of mismanagement of your money. But a bad credit record can have unpleasant repercussions, including failure to get a bond, credit card, store card, cellphone – all the trappings of a relatively affluent South African. It’s […]

The collapse of Tollgate, the Cape- based conglomerate of which Julian Askin was chair and principal shareholder, and the subsequent examination into its failure have produced one of the most torrid, unpleasant and seamy corporate chapters in South Africa’s history. Formerly a South African resident, Askin mixed a career as a journalist with occasional stockbroking. […]

George Hazeldon believes his proposed self-sufficient community will solve South Africa’s crime problem … for some. Chris McGreal went behind the electric fence George Hazeldon likens his vision to Mont St Michel, the ancient French monastery and fortress. Detractors dismiss the British property developer’s scheme as a fool’s paradise. Either way, the contracts are rolling […]

Ann Eveleth A Zambian student committed suicide after his South African boarding school expelled him and booked a ticket to send him home without informing his parents. International School of South Africa (Issa) principal Ed Khabele said he told lower sixth form student Tabo Mwenechanya (18) at a disciplinary inquiry on October 31 that he […]

The European Union insists the free trade agreement with South Africa will be good for development. But it’s missing the mark, argues Dot Keet The European Union has pressed reciprocal free trade upon South Africa as a condition for South Africa to get better access to the European market. The EU emphasises its benevolent intentions […]

Lyn Gardner:BODY LANGUAGE If your vagina got dressed, what would it wear? A beret? A pink boa? Emeralds and sequins? Perhaps Giorgio Armani only? Or something machine washable? American playwright Eve Ensler asked more than 200 women this question and many more about how they felt about their vaginas. The result is The Vagina Monologues, […]

Karlin Lillington reports from San Francisco on a recent encryption conference Programming Satan’s computer – that’s how United States cryptography expert Bruce Schneier describes creating encryption software, programs that use mathematics to encode digital information such as e-mail messages, credit card numbers or computer files. ”Most engineers are used to making things work,” he says. […]

A review of South Africa’s health system shows the patient is improving, but warns of possible relapse, writes Ferial Haffajee The policies of Minister of Health Dr Nkosazana Zuma are more readily associated with the screaming headline than the sober assessment. >From the importation of Cuban doctors to the radical changes she is planning to […]