Yearly Archives: 2001

The Bok coach has made wholesale changes after the loss to France Andy Capostagno in Genoa Last Saturday, for the second time this year, South Africa went into a Test match against France confident of victory, only to have their hopes dashed by a massively confident team in blue. Consequently when the team arrived in […]

Khadija Magardie Residents of two tiny agricultural plots in Vanderbijlpark, an industrial town in the Vaal Triangle, will square up to iron and steel giant Iscor in the Johannesburg High Court early next week. Armed with a battery of medical reports, lawyers for 16 residents of Steel Valley and Linkholm Agricultural Holdings hope to prove […]

MORE than 7 600 weapons recovered by UN peacekeepers during the disarmament of ex-combatants in Sierra Leone were destroyed on Monday in the capital, Freetown, the UN Mission in Sierra Leone (Unamsil) reported. The event marked the beginning of the second phase of Unamsil’s weapon’s destruction exercise, which is expected to continue until 10 December. […]

A SECOND LOOK Don Glass and Ruth Sack Imagine a place where creative, innovative and critical thinking is highly valued. Imagine a place where multiple ways of knowing are recognised, explored and celebrated. Imagine a place where you can learn about the heritage and cultural practices of your community and others, a place where you […]

The latest discovery adds weight to the call for an inquiry into Swiss relations with the apartheid regime Evidence wa ka Ngobeni Former apartheid president PW Botha secretly awarded the highest national honours to Swiss industrialists for supplying the apartheid regime against a United Nations arms embargo with war matriel. Some details of the secret […]

A second look Jaspreet Kindra After five years of exposure to politics in KwaZulu-Natal, spending a week at the national Parliament was an eye-opener. It was amazing how unsophisticated and aggressive the debate was in Cape Town. Attacks from either side were often personal and ineffective if intended to change the other side’s position. With […]

REVIEW Gavin Foster Triumph Speed Triple, R84998 It’s called evolution. The British built relatively crappy motorcycles and the Japanese first copied, then perfected them. Triumph, BSA, Norton, AJS, Matchless, Velocette and a dozen other manufacturers went to the wall while the Japs carried on making machines more suited to the racetrack and less street-usable. The […]

Morgan Tsvangirai has been tipped as the next president of Zimbabwe. Rehana Rossouw and Jaspreet Kindra spoke to him about the prospects for a free and fair election next year, famine in Zimbabwe and his exit strategy for President Robert Mugabe Rehana Rossouw: According to opinion polls, you are going to be president of Zimbabwe […]

MARIANNE MERTEN, Cape Town | Friday IN a further twist in the machiavellian manoeuvrings of Cape politics, the Democratic Alliance is forcing its New National Party councillors to resign from the NNP before the end of the year – or lose their jobs. The DA is amending its interim constitution to ban dual party membership, […]

If the former champion fails on Saturday his legendary trainer could go down with him Richard Williams Manny Steward will be in Lennox Lewis’s dressing room on Saturday, taping the fighter’s hands with tender care. Steward’s will be the last words Lewis hears before entering the ring in Las Vegas to recapture his world heavyweight […]