Peter Dickson Representatives of the 1 300 Volkswagen South Africa (VWSA) workers who were sacked in January have been lobbying for international support, while troops this week patrolled the streets of Uitenhage to keep the peace in the wake of the strike. The employees from VWSA’s Uitenhage plant were axed after they went on strike […]

FEARLESS attack from Callie Swart, who fired every approach shot straight at the flags, earned him the day’s best round of 64 for a two round total of 133, nine-under par, and a two shot lead over Andre Cruse after the second day of the FNB Botswana Open, at the Gaborone Sun on Friday. The […]

Andy Capostagno GOLF The Masters is just around the corner and, as has become the norm, it’s a case of who can possibly beat Tiger Woods. The hottest golfer on the planet has made fools of the odds makers so regularly that he is as low as 125-1 to win not just the Masters, but […]

Cedric Mayson SPIRIT LEVEL Capitalism is theologically bankrupt. Fear not, we can make profits and own a house or savings account, but capitalism has become a world religion. It worships money as the ultimate value of life, and spreads the false gospel that profit equals human development. Early capitalism used machines and factories to improve […]

THE Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe has ordered local banks not to remit Z$500-million in dividends to foreign investors because of the country’s severe foreign currency shortage. The Zimbabwe Independent quoted sources as saying the move was made at an emergency meeting on Wednesday between central bank officials and local banking executives. Reserve Bank officials were […]

TWO amateur French archeologists aroused the envy of their peers Thursday after finding rooms and corridors in a 4600 year-old Egyptian pyramid that give new clues to pyramid building techniques. Jean-Yves Verd’hurt, a 60-year-old real estate manager, and Gilles Dormion, 55, a draftsman in an architect’s office, said they found rooms with stepped walls inside […]

A six-year long dream has become a reality as the North Sea Jazz Festival kicks into gear this weekend Karen Rutter It’s debatable who is more excited about the upcoming North Sea Jazz Festival in Cape Town – the organisers, the artists or the punters. All said, it’s certainly the most prestigious event on the […]

Jon Brodkin Ipswich Town fans shudder at the thought of it. Not even the idea of employing Nicolas Anelka as director of team spirit could fill them with more dread. ”It is,” says one supporter, ”a nightmare scenario.” And that is putting a gloss on matters. The scenario, of course, is ending up in the […]

Andrew Worsdale One of Afrikanerdom’s most favoured boys died last week in a bizarre car accident when he evidently fell asleep at the wheel and was thrown from his car, which rolled and crushed him to death. Country and western singer Bles Bridges, the first local artist to sell out the Sun City Superbowl, was […]

CAPE Town rescue workers are hoping to resume their search on Wednesday afternoon for the body of an unidentified man whose car plunged over Chapman’s Peak Drive early on Tuesday. The motorist crashed through a security gate on the Noordhoek side of the drive at about 3am on Wednesday. The road has been closed to […]