Children’s books must bear many re-readings Lesley Cowling The words “bedtime story” conjure up a cosy picture: mom or dad cuddled up in bed with little one, both happily absorbed in a book. The reality, of course, is quite different. The child, instead of falling off to sleep after one reading, insists on hearing the […]
Public reaction to sentencing practices has probably had the most significant impact upon the legitimacy of the judiciary. Over the past 12 months we have witnessed considerable dissatisfaction as a result of perceived lenience in the imposition of sentences for rape. For these reasons a comprehensive report authored by leading academic Dirk van Zyl Smit […]
ROB DAVIES, Cape Town | Friday 11.30am. CATS fullback Thinus Delport, fresh from a solo demolition of the Blues last week, will be looking for another big performance against the Chiefs in Bloemfontein on Saturday. Delport is currently one of the hot favourites to be selected for the Springboks against Canada and England, and another […]
Jubie Matlou Papi Nkosi (58) cuts a humble figure. He does not mind taking a seat on a concrete slab for a press interview, nor does he hesitate to draw water from a tap with the palm of his hand. Such character and personality contrast sharply with Nkosi’s recently found fortune: exporting 800 tonnes of […]
Neil Thomas I very much admired the way Lastminute.com co-founder Martha Lane Fox stuck to her guns on a television programme last week. When gently sautd rather than grilled over the pricing of the flotation of Lastminute, she admirably stuck by the decision to float at that level and managed, in the space of a […]
Howard Barrell OVER A BARREL Looking to a bureaucrat to stimulate entrepreneurial activity is rather like asking a journalist to forget his or her sense of superficiality. It is about as well-directed an expectation as striking to persuade your employer to create more jobs, or calling on millions to hate capitalism in order to attract […]
Julie Flint reports from Sudan’s frontline where hunger is now used as a weapon of war against the ancient Nuba tribe In a few weeks, barring miracles, the children in this region of southern Sudan will begin to die – if not from hunger, then from disease. Most families are living in the open, without […]
UGANDAN coffee exports were down 45% year in April to 94953 60-kg bags due to a poor harvest and slower deliveries as farmers held out for better prices, officials said on Thursday. “Trading activities were extremely low during the month largely due to temporary suspension of operations by some volume movers,” the Ugandan Coffee Development […]
Born in a township, she spent her first six months in jail with her mother. As a successful singer forced into exile by Pretoria, she became a symbol of resistance. Now back home and with a new album, she has become a totem of the African renaissance Maya Jaggi When Miriam Makeba left South Africa […]
Anyone who argues for socialism will find allies in the ANC, the party’s secretary general said this week Jaspreet Kindra African National Congress secretary general Kgalema Motlanthe this week committed the party to the cause of socialism and said South Africa should follow the Chinese and Cuban socialist models of economic policy. In a wide-ranging […]