Riaan Wolmarans PREVIEW OFTHEWEEK There is one dance tune guaranteed to send people running towards the dance floor to groove to its pumping rhythm and beautiful melody. This tune is For an Angel, probably the biggest hit that top German DJ Paul van Dyk – who is playing in Cape Town and Johannesburg on June […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Friday 9.15am. A RETIRED member of South African Airways’s senior management has admitted that the carrier regularly carried highly explosive substances as well as weapons aboard passenger flights in the 1980s. The Beeld reports that Brian Watkins, a retired senior route manager at SAA, told the paper: “We murdered the people […]
Weak administration, leadership and service have been cited among the reasons for the party’s decline Howard Barrell and Jaspreet Kindra The South African Communist Party goes into its strategy conference this weekend having lost as many as four out of five of the members it recruited after being unbanned in 1990. The party currently has […]
LONDON Wasps fly-half Alex King has withdrawn from next month’s tour of South Africa, England coach Clive Woodward confirmed on Thursday. King, Jonny Wilkinson’s fly-half back-up, has been ruled out of England’s 40-man squad due to a shoulder injury. “Alex has told me he won’t be available for the tour, and I am very disappointed […]
South Africa’s Frans Botha is set to fight undisputed world heavyweight champion Lennox Lewis on July 1. Gavin Evans looks at the former fireman’s checkered career My first glimpse of Francois Botha certainly left a favourable impression – though not of Botha himself. It was the final bout of the South African amateur championships in […]
South Africa’s two most senior judges warned this week that attacks on the judiciary damage the institution Khadija Magardie The warning issued by the country’s two top judges this week against attacks on the institution of the judiciary comes amid mounting concern in legal circles about the ease with which South Africans both in and […]
Bandwidth (data speed and capacity) is not quite the gold dust of the internet era, but when a webpage takes five minutes to unfold in front of you, it can seem as scarce. So brush up on your electronic geology and discover how to get the best from your connection. Go to www.InternetTrafficReport. com for […]
The sheer, reckless imbecility of the war between Ethiopia and Eritrea is breathtaking. The fighting, which began in 1998 and flared again last week, seems totally pointless. Its ostensible cause is a dispute over demarcation of the two countries’ 1 000km border. To the extent that there is a half comprehensible explanation for the conflict, […]
FORMER Springbok and NSW Waratahs captain Tiaan Strauss and loose-forward Michael Brial, both at the centre of a player rebellion against New South Wales rugby coach Ian Kennedy this season, were axed on Wednesday from the Waratahs’ national championship squad. South African-born Strauss, former captain Brial and utility backs Darren Junee and Duncan McRae were […]
Luvuyo Kakaza When the African drum telegraphed a mystic rhythm in the Market Theatre’s foyer on May 21, it was time to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the annual FNB/Vita Market Theatre Laboratory Community Festival. The two-week long festival gives a platform to over 30 community-theatre groups from across Southern Africa. At the official opening […]