In just three years he has become the best sportsman on the planet. John Carlin charts the astounding progress of Tiger Woods from golfing prodigy to global phenomenon Tiger Woods was furious. He had just missed a 3,6m putt at Pebble Beach. The ball had drifted 15cm left of the hole. Teeth gritted, eyes murderous, […]
Howard Barrell Minister of Education Kader Asmal takes his controversial plan to rescue South Africa’s school education system before a special meeting of all Cabinet ministers and deputy ministers in Pretoria on Tuesday (July 18) amid resistance in the African National Congress and the Cabinet. The combative Asmal, who is thought to have the support […]
The Aids 2000 conference in Durban has focused the world’s attention on how South Africa is dealing with the pandemic Belinda Beresford South Africa has been one of the sleeping behemoths of sub-Saharan Africa when it comes to Aids. The country has the greatest number of HIV infections in the world, accompanied by a fast […]
Johannesburg | Friday 11.00am. VOLVO is to use South Africa as a base for exporting catalytic converters and alloy wheels to its global assembly plants. The plan, just announced, is one of the first of several countertrade projects to get the go ahead linked to the defence agreement between South Africa, BAE Systems and Swedish […]
households Khadija Magardie Xolani Zungu (9) smiles shyly and unhesitatingly says, when asked what he wants to do when he grows up, that he wants to be a doctor. Like many boys his age, Xolani likes sweets, and playing with toy cars, and whispering behind the teacher’s back at school. But unlike his friends, he […]
Belinda Beresford The avalanche of Aids deaths flattening economies and smashing people’s lives is also rumbling at the heels of the pharmaceutical companies. Access to life-saving drugs, particularly anti- retrovirals, has been the cry of the Aids 2000 conference. For many that meant lowering the costs of drugs so that not just those in the […]
Paul Kirk Police are hunting for two serial killers in Durban who are believed to be responsible for the murder of four young women and the abduction and rape of at least eight girls. Durban police confirmed this week that in Greenwood Park – a suburb of central Durban – a killer has murdered at […]
Steven Friedman WORM’S EYE VIEW When will we stop relying on others to do what only we can do ourselves? As the gloom which followed the frustration of our World Cup bid set in last Thursday, an apparently unemployed man who had been listening carefully to our team’s sales pitch exclaimed: “Now we will not […]
Marianne Merten It is not unusual to see asylum seekers gathering outside the locked doors of Customs House on Cape Town’s foreshore as early as 7am. Hours later, the narrow linoleum-tiled corridor outside the fifth floor refugee office is a jumble of languages, frustration and patience worn thin among the dozens of applicants and home […]
A BRITISH model who flew to Cape Town earlier this week to promote the plight of thousands of penguins struck by an oil spill off the Cape coast is having something of an identity crisis. The saga began when the International Fund for Animal Welfare announced Alex Gain, winner of the Sun newspaper’s Babe of […]