Barry Streek The beaded Aids-awareness logo, such as those worn by President Thabo Mbeki and other members of his Cabinet, is a “powerful, powerful” instrument of good design, according to United States Professor Dick Buchanan. “This is so important as a design project. It may be one of the most important I have seen in […]
Grant Shimmin OLYMPICS For most South Africans, even the avid sports fans, the only time they ever see a baseball game is in a sports bar or – if they’re part of the growing satellite TV generation – when they happen to stumble on to ESPN when surfing through the other sports channels. Perhaps a […]
Mark Ouma Banyana Banyana aim to secure the future of women’s soccer in South Africa by putting up an inspiring performance when South Africa hosts the African Cup of Nations in October. Aware of the enormous challenge that lies ahead, the national women’s team are determined to overcome the odds stacked against them and perform […]
Nawaal Deane Hamid “Banjo” Cassim, the Johannesburg sweetshop owner at the centre of the cricket scandal, has converted his ordeal before the King commission into a business coup. Biltong sales at his Fordsburg shop have been booming since the widespread publicity afforded him by the match- fixing saga. To cash in, he has repackaged his […]
Charl Pretorius HORSERACING Nine months ago Badger’s Coast was a maiden – a horse that had not yet managed to win a race. Amazingly, just two months later he rose to fame by becoming only the second three-year-old in 45 years to capture the prestigious J&B Met at Kenilworth. This Saturday Badger’s Coast could add […]
The head of the CAA allegedly contravened the Civil Aviation Act by not reporting an aircraft incident Sechaba ka’Nkosi Beleaguered Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) boss Trevor Abrahams, who was arrested this week in connection with the fraudulent issuing of pilot licences, allegedly sought to cover up a crash involving an airplane he was flying. Documents […]
The applications of biotechnology have provoked debate about its ethics. Richard Holloway looks at some of the issues One way to classify people is by the tumbler test: pessimists say it is half empty, optimists half full. In most of the great debates about human nature people place themselves somewhere on the continuum between these […]
Iden Wetherell Zimbabweans are this week treating what is officially a win for President Robert Mugabe’s Zanu-PF party in the general election as a triumph for the opposition. Zanu-PF retained power by hanging on to 62 of the 120 elected seats in last weekend’s poll. But it lost 57 seats to the Movement for Democratic […]
Kelwyn Sole SONG TRIALS by Mxolisi Nyezwa (Gecko) For a number of years now, Mxolisi Nyezwa’s poems have appeared in local and international journals, as well as forming part of the 1992 collection Essential Things. In addition, he is editor of one of the most innovative literary journals published at the moment, Kotaz. Nyezwa is […]
Four farm labourers claimed at the hearing that they were sacked for joining unions, unproven theft and protesting against being assaulted.