Trekking up a mountain and cherry-picking in season are only two of the many things to do in the ‘mini-Serengeti’ Jean Spear ‘There’s Chester Williams and Brendan Paulse of our springbok herd,” points Willie Nel, owner of Moolmanshoek, a luxury new guesthouse and adventure farm in the Eastern Free State. Nel has affectionately given the […]
A potential commitment to renewable energy comes close on the heels of predictions of solar power as a possible multibillion-dollar market Terry Macalister BP Amoco is considering a massive expansion of its renewable energy programme over and above the $250-million it has already earmarked to spend over the next five years. In a move that […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Paris | Friday 3.30pm. ALGERIAN national coach Nasser Sandjak announced on Friday that he has quit his post and will be returning to French third division side Noisy-le-Sec, based in the suburbs of Paris. “I’ve decided with a lot of regret not to renew my contract,” Sandjak said in a statement. He said […]
Tour boss has the credentials to put some backbone into the weakest of teams – he’s a former secret police chief Neal Collins in London It’s probably safe to say that Zimbabwe has recently slipped rather low in the average Englishman’s top 10 holiday destinations. Ticket sales for the first Test against the Southern Africans […]
If land hunger is the way blacks in Zimbabwe most acutely experience the legacy of white supremacy, in South Africa the comparable black experience is lack of access to capital. We either correct this shortcoming or we bid goodbye to any possibility of a prosperous and peaceful South Africa. Apartheid set out systematically to destroy […]
Who better than David Ginola to replace Princess Diana as the Red Cross’s ambassador on landmine control? On the eve of his trip to Cambodia, the Gallic glory boy talks to Denis Campbell The dark sunglasses, non- descript grey clothes and floppy hat pulled down over his eyes are a poor disguise. Almost everyone in […]
Guy Willoughby ‘Herman Charles Bosman died in 1951. Why revisit him now? Simple; we need to look to the past, the pre-apartheid past, to know the way forward. Apartheid so pervaded our consciousness that it’s immediately dated itself. All the writing of that period is exactly that – period stuff now …” David Butler, one-man […]
globalisation A view from the US on how the most important international economic institutions bleed the world’s poorest countries dry Mark Weisbrot On December 1 1999, as clouds of tear gas hovered over the streets of Seattle, President Bill Clinton said yes to 50E000 protesters when he wanted to say no. He agreed to make […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Harare | Friday 6.00pm. GOVERNMENT, farmers and militant war veterans agreed at talks in Harare on Friday to set up a land commission to oversee the peaceful transfer of white-owned land in Zimbabwe to landless blacks. David Hasluck, director of the Commercial Farmers Union, said the proposal has been agreed at a three-hour […]
Chris McGreal in Freetown The surge of foreboding among Freetown’s long-suffering citizens is not made any easier by the realisation that their peninsula city is little better than a sprawling trap. Foreigners may scan the skies for the rescue helicopters, but there is nowhere for Sierra Leonians to run if Foday Sankoh and his rebels […]