ROB DAVIES, Cape Town | Friday 2.00pm. THE Cats will face up to the Auckland Blues at Ellis Park on Friday night looking for a maximum haul to steer them closer to a play-off spot as the Super 12 enters its final two rounds. After a disastrous tour of the Antipodes, the Cats have managed […]
South African teams might not make the Super 12 semi-finals, but their improved play is a boost for the Boks Andy Capostagno If only the wake-up call had come sooner. For most of the first six weeks of the Super 12, South African teams induced a sense of unremitting gloom with one- dimensional game plans […]
Robert Mugabe may soon feel he has sufficiently muddled the issues and struck enough terror into voters and his opponents to win the forthcoming elections in Zimbabwe quite comfortably. If so, this may lead him to less violent and irrational political behaviour than he has shown since he lost the referendum on a new Constitution […]
Shaun de Waal MOVIE OFTHEWEEK The phantasmagoric imagination of Tim Burton seamlessly combines the adult sensibility of the horror tale and the cartoony delights of a children’s story, using a fairytale form to deal with death, destruction and the rest of the darker side of the human psyche. It is this vision that provides Burton’s […]
You can make your dreams come true without resorting to crime, young people heard at a Freedom Day concert I’m in the Beemer with two-thirds of Shana when the new Boom Shaka tune, Change Your Mind, hits the airwaves from Durban Youth Radio. Nathi, one of the chiselled young singers of Durban’s hot new kwaito […]
Jaspreet Kindra Two tribes near Louis Trichardt have been invading state-run bluegum plantations after failing to push through an official claim to the land. After their claim to their ancestral land – located atop the bluegum-covered Rivola mountain – fell on deaf years, the Shangaan and Venda-speaking communities inhabiting either side of the mountain decided […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Thursday 4.35pm NEW car sales in April were encouraging despite the number of public holidays during the month, according to the National Association of Automobile Manufacturers of South Africa. Latest figures released by Naamsa showed that 14827 new passenger cars were sold in April, some 1354 units or 10% more than […]
John Matshikiza WITH THE LID OFF The plane (I know you’re beginning to get bored with this plane, but so am I) is getting ready to take to the skies. This is no ordinary airline. It is part of the infrastructure of what should be Africa’s pre-eminent carrier, Air Afrique, named after the continent itself. […]
New additions to the local insurance industry are a women-only policy and maintenance protection Heather Hogan Women (and men) wary of time-consuming, expensive and sometimes futile battles to get financial support after a divorce can now take out an insurance policy to protect them against the maintenance blues. However, people in customary marriages are excluded […]
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 […]