South Africa has a few realistic Olympic medal hopes – but there could be some surprises Grant Shimmin Angelo Taylor, a 21-year-old who hails from the previous Olympic host city, Atlanta, and is the fastest man in the world in the 400m hurdles this year, has a diary on the website shared by CNN and […]

Andy Capostagno rugby The international season is over until November. We are now in the middle of mud- slinging season and it is scarcely surprising that the Currie Cup has lost its lustre. For who can concentrate on the game when the real heavyweights are spending every waking moment consulting with their lawyers? Five years […]

Patrick Craven crossfire Thami Mazwai proudly proclaims that he and his staff “are gleefully contravening the [Basic Conditions of Employment] Act” by not paying premiums for Sunday working (“Cosatu acts irresponsibly in criticising the government”, September 1 to 7). In other words he is breaking the law. Yet he accuses Congress of South African Trade […]

Rupert Neethling ‘This is what the Internet should be all about,” declared a friend back in 1997 on discovering instant messaging (IM). He was already a cyber veteran, but IM finally allowed him to converse with online friends in real time. IM software allows you to see when a friend goes online, following which you […]

On the 60th anniversary of the Battle of Britain, we should all be grateful for Winston’s bar-room bravado Phil Craig It is 1940. Britain has a new prime minister. In Washington President Roosevelt is addressing his Cabinet. Writing in his diary, Roosevelt’s interior secretary, Harold Ickes, noted: “The president said that he supposed that Churchill […]

Public Internet services are finding their niche in the Mother City Lauren Shantall Have you ever heard of an Internet caf’? If it is a ridiculous question for the year 2000, then that’s only because South Africans have embraced the Age of the Computer to such an extent that we’ve internalised it and our modems. […]

Manchester United midfielder Quinton Fortune is coming good at just the right time Neal Collins Quinton Fortune’s name is finally going up in lights in England, nearly 10 years after his arrival at Heathrow. On Tuesday night at Old Trafford the 23-year-old from Cape Town finally proved beyond doubt that he has the quality to […]

Thebe Mabanga in your ear So Metrofm is reported to have 5,6-million listeners, making it the second-largest station in the country after Ukhozi fm (Radio Zulu), which has 6,7-million listeners. If you are a Metro listener, you are now probably drowning in a hype-induced frenzy. For that is all it is really. Here’s why. In […]

David Le Page Until now, if you said wireless application protocol (Wap), people instantly thought Nokia: “Ah, you’ve got a 7110.” Nokia has to be congratulated on having marketed their product so effectively that many people follow the arrival of their latest models with the same enthusiasm normally reserved for a new BMW. The 7110 […]