Cedric Mayson SPIRIT LEVEL A double page spread in the current issue of The Teacher highlights the challenge of religious education faced by our schools. In the old days, religious education was frequently boring, indoctrinated, or ignored. We need to bury it for good to rest in peace or pieces. Our new Constitution states that […]
Nigella Lawson BODY LANGUAGE There’s a poster, a huge sky-stretching poster: it features a woman, or her almost bare torso; shoulders, neck, a transparent black T-shirt over unconcealed – indeed, heightened – nipples. It’s an advertisement for Vogue.com (that’s Vogue-dot-com) though the dot is typographically missing. I don’t say it isn’t witty (and the other […]
Andrew Osborn in Brussels Hundreds of millions of pounds stolen by the late Nigerian dictator General Sani Abacha and his entourage is stashed in bank accounts in London and Jersey, lawyers working for the Nigerian government claimed this week. The money is allegedly in accounts belonging to some of Abacha’s close family and friends and […]
destructing Mercedes Sayagues The owners of the town house I rent ring early on Monday morning. Their neighbour Allen Dunn was tortured and killed by a hit squad Sunday afternoon on his farm in Beatrice, 40km from Harare. Can I vacate the house in two days? They are panicking. My mouse crashed on the floor. […]
SOUTH African Monique Strydom, held by Muslim rebels in the Philippines for more than two weeks along with 20 other people, is pregnant, according to a Filipino abducted by the same group. Strydom, whose husband Carel is also being held by members of the Abu Sayyaf group, is two months pregnant, the Filipino hostage, Andy […]
Neal Collins SOCCER It makes you proud (sob) to be English. True grit in the face of stunning mid- table mediocrity (sigh). It was (simper) marvellous to watch. Last Sunday we saw Southampton, safe and sound above the relegation zone, hold mighty Liverpool 0- 0. On Monday, mid-table Everton had two sent off as they […]
Fraud and corruption are widespread in the local medical industry, involving doctors, medical administrators and pharmaceutical companies Belinda Beresford South Africans are paying an estimated extra R8-billion a year in medical costs because of fraud, corruption and perverse incentives spread throughout the country’s Alice in Wonderland health care system. The private sector spends approximately R30-billion […]
GHANAIAN mining company Ashanti Goldfields has reported a 68% fall in first quarter profits on Thursday, reflecting a lower realised gold price than a year ago.Earnings fell to $6,9-million, or six cents a share, from $21,5-million, or 20 cents, a year earlier as the average gold price obtained by the firm slid to $345 an […]
spiritual Martin Thorpe Football may be a religion but it does not appeal to the pope in its present incarnation. God’s assistant manager has laid down the law to some of the European game’s movers and shakers about the dangers of Mammon. During a 45-minute audience with a high- powered Uefa delegation at the Vatican […]
Peter Dickson Port Elizabeth, gateway to one of South Africa’s most impoverished regions, is gearing up for an economic miracle that could ironically put immense pressure on the city as the homeless and jobless compete for living space. A decade ago 30 000 people poured into Saldanha and set up informal settlements, built on the […]