Robert Kirby LOOSE CANNON Last week yielded another of his feared public tantrums from Mr Mbeki’s chief soothsayer, Mr Mankahlana – or as he’s affectionately known these days, “South Parks”. In his newest ragings Mr Mankahlana described those who disagree with the president on the HIV/Aids issue as his “assailants”. I have to agree. With […]
Graham Rock HORSE RACING A lanky chestnut with a white blaze will be entrusted with the hopes of 24 Irish prison officers in the Grand National at Aintree in Liverpool. Micko’s Dream has won nine of his 19 races and earned prize money of 104E000 for his syndicate of owners. Victory on Saturday would add […]
With our property prices among the world’s lowest, bricks and mortar could be a very solid investment Ian Fife ‘I been down so long it looks like up to me,” says the old blues song. That’s how property people feel too. Everyone else is getting instant gratification in shares and the money market, so real […]
Denzel Washington’s latest role, in The Hurricane, adds to a body of work that bears elegant testament to the black American experience Elvis Mitchell For a long time, Denzel Washington made a career out of suffusing old-school white liberal movies with a dizzying rush of flesh and blood. Take the well-meaning Cry Freedom in 1987 […]
The first description of the wonder of the Aughrabies Falls, one of the world’s six largest falls, was published 175 years ago Stephen Gray When George Thompson, the Cape-based trader, first beheld the awesome Aughrabies Falls, in the Northern Cape, in 1824 at the end of a long trek through iron-tinted rocky desolation, he was […]
Jaspreet Kindra The CIA has warned that the HIV/Aids pandemic sweeping sub-Saharan Africa will lay waste to the ruling political and military elite in the region, provoking damaging power struggles over scarce state resources. In a recent report, posted on the intelligence agency’s website, the CIA warns: “In our view, the infectious disease burden will […]
Stephen Gray To the wilder north of the Aughrabies Falls is another reserve area, also with a complicated history, and at last opened for tourists of the hardier breed. This is no place for sissies in sedans, for there are no air-conditioned chalets with fine-menu restaurant, good shop and well- marked walks. You should use […]
M&G reporters Hands-free kits for cellphones do not protect your brain from radiation – on the contrary, they channel three times the dose into the skull that you receive by holding the phone next to your ear, according to the British Consumers’ Association. A report in Which? magazine will upset those who rushed to buy […]
THE ACT Brumbies on Thursday named an unchanged side for Friday’s Super 12 match with the Otago Highlanders in Canberra. ACT coach Eddie Jones unsurprisingly stuck with the same starting 15 that trampled the Cats 64-0 a week ago to lift the Brumbies into third place on the standings, just a point behind the Highlanders. […]
The longer you wait before you buy life insurance, the more it’s likely to cost you Judy Barnes One of the most important things you will ever undertake before shuffling off this mortal coil is purchasing life assurance. It’s a process likely to be complicated as everyone you know attempts to advise. Because our date […]