Grant Shimmin OLYMPICS With many of the athletes who’ll be their national team-mates in Sydney in September already named, the battle to get to this year’s Olympics is just beginning for most of the country’s finest track and field exponents as the European season gets into full swing. In fact, the sport’s biggest circuit could […]
On a trip to the Sossusvlei dunes, Kit Peel found a spot of luxury in the harsh desert Guidebooks are misleading. There’s nothing new in that. You go to England but don’t really expect, as part of your itinerary, to have tea with the queen or hang out with Damien Hirst in his latest eatery. […]
A physical theatre group has based its latest venture on something everyone has in common: dreams Matthew Simpson Let’s put it in perspective: it all began with LSD. Like it or not, modern cultural expression of all kinds would not be the same without the hallucinogenic generation. Never before had an essentially alternative lifestyle had […]
In the aftermath of the controversial R32- billion weapons deal, the government has plans to spend even more money on upgrading the army Ivor Powell With the dust yet to settle on the government’s controversial R32-billion weapons deal, plans are afoot to spend several more billions of taxpayers’ money on another round of arms purchases […]
Sechaba ka’Nkosi Embattled Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe snubbed this week’s gathering of the Southern African Development Community (SADC), sending only a junior Cabinet minister and a diplomat to represent his country. Mugabe, a founder and senior SADC member, failed to attend this year’s SADC World Economic Forum currently taking place in Durban despite expectations from […]
The Heath unit will launch an investigation into the affairs of Prince Gideon Zulu after receiving the approval of the premier of KwaZulu-Natal Paul Kirk KwaZulu-Natal Premier Lionel Mtshali has signed a proclamation allowing the Heath special investigating unit to probe the affairs of his Minister of Welfare and Population Development, Prince Gideon Zulu. The […]
Mercedes Sayagues Rufaro stadium erupted in a deafening cheer when opposition leaders Morgan Tsvangirai and Gibson Sibanda arrived at the Movement for Democratic Change’s (MDC) final campaign rally in Harare last Sunday. In an impressive show of strength, the MDC filled up 80% of the 40 000-seat stadium, where the trade union-based party was launched […]
A border war is now the most serious threat to peace in the Democratic Republic of Congo Gregory Mthembu-Salter The main flashpoints in the Democratic Republic of Congo are Kisangani in North Kivu – where Rwandan and Ugandan forces are disengaging after a battle two weeks ago that left hundreds dead – and Mbandaka in […]
HANSIE Cronje has admitted to leaving an amount of R3000 he received for providing forecasts out of his testimony on Thursday, saying that it was an oversight because it was made late at night and that he was “not in a good state.” Cronje told the Commission that he “struck up a relationship” with Marlon […]
LIBYA has welcomed a decision by the United States government to cease classifying Libya and six other countries as “rogue states”. The United States earlier this week dropped the use of the term “rogue state” from its foreign policy lexicon in favor of the broader categorization “state of concern”. US State Department spokesman Richard Boucher […]