Neal Collins in London The venue: Selhurst Park. The date: early autumn 2000. The scene: Wimbledon’s players are gathered in the dressing room to begin their battle for promotion from Division One. Enter the new manager… “Right, lads, not many of you remember me, but here’s a reminder of what I’m all about (head butts […]
The sole tourist venture permitted in Namibia’s normally arid Skeleton Coast has just opened for business Angus Begg ‘Remember to paddle when the waters reach us,” said Hunter Davies, noted English columnist and author of 40 books. He was seated in his bed in the dining room of a rather upmarket tented camp on Namibia’s […]
Communities near state forests are upset about not being consulted about proposed sales Fiona Macleod The government’s multimillion-rand sale of commercial state forests could literally go up in flames if the rights of the rural communities who own the land where the forests are growing continue to be ignored. Critics say threats of the forests […]
Barry Streek A new body to help South Africans come to terms with their past and develop the work of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) to promote “nation- building”, is to be officially launched in Cape Town next week. “The post-1994 years were marked by a sense of goodwill and optimism regarding reconciliation. We […]
Howard Barrell President Thabo Mbeki said this week that the crisis in Zimbabwe was the result of a failure to redistribute land in the country – rather than a violent manipulation of a grievance for electoral purposes by Zimbabwe’s President Robert Mugabe. In an address to the nation on Thursday night, Mbeki also rejected calls […]
Khadija Magardie A DAUGHTER OF ISIS by Nawal El Saadawi (David Philip/Zed) Islamic feminism is a virtual candy jar of typologies, incorporating pragmatists, radicals, secular feminists and even “neo- Islamists”. With the backdrop of Islamic laws and traditions, the different camps have one common concern – the empowerment of women within a rethought Islam. What […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, New York | Friday 8.50am. THE United Nations was in touch with major military powers on Thursday to bring its peacekeeping force in Sierra Leone rapidly to full strength after rebels there took more UN staffers hostage. “We are in discussions with the British and the Americans and I also raised this issue […]
Ivor Powell The Office of the State Attorney has stopped providing legal assistance to victims of apartheid atrocities appearing before the Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s (TRC) amnesty hearings and is instead funding only the torturers and policemen applying for amnesty. The decision hits victims currently employed by the state – mainly former Umkhonto weSizwe (MK) […]
Hypertext has had a huge effect on creative writing, pushing it to places it has been trying to go for decades Karlin Lillington When Apple decided to supply a copy of a little program called Hypercard on all Macintosh computers back in the 1980s, it prepared the way for what would become the Web’s most […]
Angry residents in the Northern Province are threatening to take action over delays in land claim settlements, reports Jaspreet Kindra Land claimants in the Northern Province are threatening to boycott the local government elections, and have joined other claimants across the country in threatening “Zimbabwe-style” invasions. The disgruntled claimants have found an unlikely ally in […]