Ordinary Chinese in South Africa look to charity, religion, business and culture to counter divisive politics. Osita Nwajah reports The men, women and children assemble in their numbers. The compact space outside a house in Mamatheda Street in Mofolo, Soweto, can’t contain all of them, so they spill into the narrow street. The people, clutching […]

friday Golf: German Masters, at 2pm on SuperSport1 (SS1/CSN) Rugby: Currie Cup, Super Eights, round two, Pumas vs Cheetahs at 7pm on SS1/CSN saturday Cricket: Second one-day international (ODI), Zimbabwe vs New Zealand, at 9.25am on SS2 Rugby: New Zealand NPC series, Auckland vs North Harbour at 6.35am, Waikato vs Canterbury at 7pm (delayed), Northland […]

Cameron Duodu Letter from the North By allowing “Eric the Eel” (Eric Moussambani, the swimmer from Equatorial Guinea) to take part in the Olympics Games, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) has done Africa a great favour. But I doubt whether that was their original intention. You don’t need to be a genius to realise that […]

Valentine Cascarino FOOD Anyone who has cruised Africa extensively would agree that Ethiopian food comes with an unbelieveable sucker punch. Instead of the humdrum and gruesome starch that is the standard formula in many African restaurants, Ethiopian delicacies, on the contrary, are deliciously spicy. Probably because, like coffee, some of the world’s famous spices originated […]

Rosanne Buchanan Food Gautengers can indulge and revel during Wine and Dine week, from October 1 to 8, when a network of about 70 restaurants will be offering fine fare at discounted prices. Inspired by the South African Chefs’ Association (Saca), the event is aimed at encouraging Gauteng residents to eat out more often and […]

Timothy Trengove-Jones CROSSFIRE The clearest indication of the health of this democracy is to be found in discourse surrounding the HIV/Aids pandemic. President Thabo Mbeki has told Parliament, the country and the world that this government’s policies on HIV/Aids are “based on the thesis that HIV causes Aids”. He has also conceded that the government’s […]

Personal bests, not medals, were the order of the day for South Africa’s Olympic team Grant Shimmin It was the strangest of situations. Two South African 400m athletes had qualified for the finals of the men’s and women’s events at the Olympics, both for the first time, and each had run outside the gold medal […]

Khadija Magardie Entering Dr Manuela Costa’s medical practice in a nondescript, semi-deserted building in Wynberg, near Alexandra, patients are greeted by a poster carrying a poem. It reads: “Bless the people who cross this threshold, Bless the souls who need to be here … But take away the anger; take away the hurt, Take away […]

David Beresford Another Country During my peregrinations in search of a diagnosis – for the cramped handwriting and touch-typing blunders that were eventually diagnosed as Parkinson’s – I consulted an orthopaedic specialist. After tapping various joints and peering at me suspiciously, he pronounced the problem to be “writer’s cramp”. I asked him whether it was […]