Brenda Atkinson When someone whom you love, and who is close to you, is raped, your heart’s selfish poems become so much emotional litter. The way your heart feels the world is as if it had never really beaten before this moment, when the phone rings, and the voice breaks: she was raped. She is […]
Neil Thomas TAKING STOCK Small investors are dazed and confused. So they should be; a lot of big, professional investors are feeling pretty much the same. It’s time to take a deep breath, shake our heads and try to get a clear view on our investments. It also helps to remember that we are living […]
Donna Block The rand was slaughtered this week as local investors fled the markets amid fears that the political and economic chaos playing itself out in Zimbabwe will spread into South Africa. The currency started to recover on Wednesday when President Thabo Mbeki, taking questions from MPs in Parliament, promised that the government would make […]
Jubie Matlou Moutse Community Radio is a station in transition. Serving the sprawling rural villages of Dennilton in Mpumalanga, it started out as the modest operation of a group of rural women, but has become a political football as others jostle for a share in its success. The station, ordered to broaden its appeal, has […]
Chris McGreal in Jui The pretence of peace dissolved in Sierra Leone this week as Foday Sankoh’s rebels fought their way to within 40km of Freetown and advanced along the main road into the capital. The assault sent United Nations peacekeepers fleeing again, with thousands of refugees. But the government’s newly rearmed forces claimed to […]
Jane Martinson AUnited States judge has dealt a blow to Napster by ruling that the upstart song- swapping company should stand trial for alleged copyright infringement. If found liable, the firm, which employs only 18 people, could be liable for millions of dollars in damages. The decision against Napster, in a case brought by the […]
At the age of 30 and with just three films to his name, Paul Thomas Anderson has already been granted the heady power of the Final Cut. He tells John Patterson how he cruised into the top flight of Hollywood directors
THE National Olympic Commission on Wednesday announced the South African track and field team to compete at the Sydney Olympics in September. Men: Matthew Quinn (100m, 200m) Lee-Roy Newton (100m, 4×100,) Marcus LaGrange (200m, 400m, 4x100m, 4x400m) Paul Gorries (200m, 4x100m) Hendrik Mokganyetsi (400m, 4x400m) Arnaud Malherbe (400m, 4x400m) Jopie van Oudtshoorn (400m, 4x400m) Gideon […]
THE Burundi army has killed at least 200 Hutu rebels in five days of fighting near the Tanzanian border, local villagers said on Thursday. Colonel Bernard Bijonya said that the rebels — members of the Forces for the Defence of Democracy — have infiltrated from Tanzania in the past two weeks. He said many rebels […]
SOUTH Africa will send soldiers to Democratic Republic of Congo to act as an advance team to facilitate the deployment of four battalions of UN monitors there, President Thabo Mbeki said on Wednesday. “It will be more of a headquarters group that will enable support for the UN mission,” Mbeki said in a special address […]