Yearly Archives: 2001

REVIEW Gavin Foster BMW M3 SMG, R405000 BMW 3 Series compact, from R165000 Switch off the Dynamic Stability Control. Move the shift lever to the right sequential mode. Select performance mode programme 6 on the centre console-mounted switch. Move the gearstick forward and hold it there. Now comes the ugly part plant your foot on […]

report Paul Kirk Apartheid-era legislation, designed to allow a pariah state to conduct secret arms deals, gave the presidency the power to scrutinise and even censor the report of the joint investigation team into the multibillion-rand arms deal before it reached Parliament. The apparent use of this legislation is the latest in a series of […]

ATHLETICS Duncan Mackay Ludmila Engquist’s story sounds like the stuff of a Hollywood blockbuster. How she grew up as a cog in the Soviet sports machinery; failed a drugs test only to be cleared by a judge after her tyrannical husband admitted he had spiked her drink in revenge for her asking for a divorce; […]

The sixth Spier Summer Arts Festival starts this week. Paul Boekkooi gives an overview of this unique event The Spier Estate setting just outside Stellenbosch certainly is breathtakingly beautiful. While all the major arts festivals run by the Rainbow Nation are compressed events lasting a maximum of some seven or eight days, Spier’s is in […]

I have questions about your motivation in publishing the truly madly explicit copulation photograph (Friday, November 9). I don’t know why we don’t copulate openly in public, but we don’t. All the other animals, as far as I know, copulate anywhere, anytime. We do it in private. Why? It seems so odd. Can you tell […]

ANOTHER 552 children suspected of genocide and other crimes against humanity regained their freedom on Monday after spending three months in the Gaculiro re-education camp in the capital, Kigali. Unicef Information Officer Cyriaque Ngoboka said that 13 girls were among those freed, after a traditional village tribunal heard testimonies of their innocence. Monday’s release brings […]

Marianne Merten A large number of the 10 000 objections by fundamentalist Christians to the proposed revised school curriculum appear dubious as the post office has so far returned 600 of the government’s acknowledgment-of-receipt letters marked “address unknown”. The letter campaign was started by several Christian organisations that asked followers to submit their objections. Last […]

Date : Cape Philharmonic Orchestra (CPO) in African Songbirds, featuring Gloria Bosman, Jelena Revishin and Nontutthuzelo Puoane, conducted by Mike Campbell and including a jazz quintet. November 18: Pop Goes the Orchestra, conducted by George Michie, featuring Zayn Adams. December 5 to 8: Moya Wa Sechaba Spirit of the Nation, with Sibongile Khumalo and her […]

Paul Kirk has been led astray. He writes that “12 Hawks will cost the country an estimated minimum of US$1-billion”. The actual contract price for 24 Hawks is 323,83-million plus R634,68-million for South African sub-systems. Translating that into United States dollars at the present exchange rates comes to about US$540,48-million for 24 Hawks, not US$1 […]

This system means cellphone users pay for data not time David Shapshak The failure of wireless application protocol (WAP) has dented the confidence of cellphone users who thought they could get the Internet on their phones. WAP promised a Web-like interface that would be ideal for small transactions and ticket purchases and for accessing information, […]