Yearly Archives: 2001

Thabo Mohlala The National Intelligence Services and the South African national gliding team are involved in a row after the NIS cancelled a booking made by the team ahead of the world championships in Mafikeng in December. Team manager Quintin Maine says this threw their plans into disarray. He says as the host nation and […]

Suzan Chala meets Funky Ngobeni, one of thousands of young children forced to support their family Every second day after school 13-year-old Joe Ngobeni fetches water for villagers from a well an hour and a half away. Funky his mother called him that charges 50c for 25 litres of water. He says he carries about […]

comment John Stremlau With the defeat of the Taliban in Afghanistan, the United States has begun to think seriously about the next phase in its global war against terrorism. This should spur all other countries with stakes in the anti-terror campaign to review their options. For South Africans three issues stand out. l What action […]

music Riaan Wolmarans Aquadome,Emerald SafariResort and Casino. The Dance Till Dawn party on New Year’s Eve from 9pm has DJs Lea, Morgan, Lalicia,Chris and others. Tickets are R100 (R85 for students), including some free drinks, at Computicket or the Aquadome. More info:Tel:(016) 982 8000. Bassline, 7 Seventh Street, Melville. 340ml from Mozambique perform on Thursday […]

Ian Tasman It’s that time of year when people take stock, be it in the form of a year-end bonus for the lucky ones or, for the others, just a general look at their mental and physical health. Amazingly, another year has come to an end, and as we slowly move from the office to […]

Phaswane Mpe on life in Hillbrow You alight from a minibus taxi in Noord Street, Johannesburg, for the first time in your life. Suddenly, you feel that there is a problem. Only, you are not sure whether you are the problem or the problem is around you. You remember what you were told when you […]

Maggie Davey On certain days when all is right with the world, and the sun tilts at a fine angle, it can make sense to know that Frank Sinatra’s favourite colour was orange. Or that practically every item in the TV series Buck Rogers in the 25th Century had rounded edges and art deco design […]

New, exciting discoveries at the Sterkfontein cave complex have put South Africa back on the palaeoanthropological map Drew Forrest Once the victim of the cultural boycott and a stunning series of fossil hominid discoveries in East and North-East Africa, South African palaeoanthropology is staging a big comeback. The pendulum began to swing back two years […]

Media freedom is likely to come under increasing attack in Zimbabwe in the new year Chris McGreal This article will be punishable by up to two years in prison under the new media Bill likely to become law in Zimbabwe early next year. For a start, it quotes The Herald newspaper in Harare a government […]

SOCCER Ntuthuko Maphumulo It’s an African Champions’ League final that has all the ingredients of greatness. If Sundowns can upset the form book and get a victory in Egypt on Friday they will earn the respect of the whole continent and pocket more than R10-million. To emulate Orlando Pirates the only South African club so […]