working Connie Selebogo and Nadine Hutton Past grimy braziers belching gray smoke, a gust of wind reveals a group of women in the technicolor splendor of their swibelana, or traditional Shangaan dress. Cocooned in smoke, they are still vabombile – dressed to kill. This is no fashion show. It’s Johannesburg at 7am, and nestled between […]

A subjective assessment of the main men (and woman) on the global stage The balance of power in global sport is shifting and few individuals better illustrate the changes taking place than Rupert Murdoch. He does not play sport, he does not administer it and he rarely even watches it. However, over the past decade […]

Will new regulations help or worsen the working conditions of security guards? Nawaal Deane Lionel Sheperd* starts work at six in the evening, six days a week, and finishes 12 hours later. A security guard in a shop in a Johannesburg suburb, he observes the customers and keeps an eye out for firearms. There is […]

ROGER Russell, who has spread his anti-crime message by walking more than 3600km through South Africa, is expected back in Cape Town on May 2. Having visited more than 150 police stations and spoken to some 4000 police officers over the past year, Russell has appealed to the public to support police officers in the […]

Ex-prisoner 885/63 revisits Robben Island as his book on the subject is reissued Henk Rossouw When Indres Naidoo returned from exile, his nephew handed him a tattered photocopy of his memoir, banned in 1982. “It was still full of curry marks,” chuckled Naidoo as we drove down to the harbour to catch the early ferry […]

Andrew Muchineripi Bafana Bafana kick off their campaign for the 2002 World Cup against minnows Lesotho There is no reason why South Africa should not get off to a winning start against Lesotho on Sunday in their quest for a second consecutive appearance at the World Cup finals. Bafana Bafana are, man for man, a […]

Firstly, the brain functions by non- algorithmic processes. As physicist Niels Bohr said to a student, “You’re not thinking, you’re just being logical.” l The brain has chemically based events. “Unless we could give Prozac to a computer the machine won’t be anything like the brain.” l The brain has emotions. “Even a baby has […]

Azhar Cachalia A SECOND LOOK The Human Rights Commission’s (HRC) hearings into racism in the media is over. The dust has settled and most members of the media seem to agree that the process was a productive one. The hearing provoked vibrant discussion both inside and outside the media industry. The industry must tackle those […]

Anglo-American has driven a hard bargain for the mines it acquired in the Zambian Copperbelt last week Gregory Mthembu-Salter In a historic ceremony last Friday in Lusaka, Anglo- American regained the major mines of Zambia’s Copperbelt, including Konkola Deep. A consortium led by First Quantum Minerals (FQM) acquired the Mufulira and Nkana mines on the […]

“The personal opinions of the editors have no weight in the eyes of the public. What they seek in a newspaper is knowledge of facts, and it is only by altering or distorting those facts that a journalist can contribute to the support of his own views.” – Alexis de Tocqueville (1805-1859) It might appear […]