Robert Colman Gregory Vuyani Maqoma is one of the young choreographers commissioned to do a piece for this year’s FNB Vita Dance Umbrella. I sat in on a rehearsal of his work, Rhythm Blues, at the Dance Factory. At first the dancers are self-conscious, pretending not to be, of the stranger in the rehearsal room. […]

SHARES in steel giant Iscor extended early losses on Thursday on news that recent floods will impact negatively on its production. The counter, which was down almost 3%, slid further to be 3,19% lower at R22,75 on the news. The company said that floods are expected to result in a loss of 500000 tons of […]

Gavin Foster Your 12-year-old daughter goes to an indoor karting venue with friends and is hurt when a wheel flies off her kart on the track. “You’ll pay for this,” you tell the manager of the track. “No I won’t,” is his response. “Take a look. Your daughter signed an indemnity.” The following day you […]

policy Marianne Merten The new land reform policy unveiled this week by Minister of Agriculture and Land Affairs Thoko Didiza after eight months of stony silence, has raised serious concerns about the lack of public debate and consultation in the formulation of a new policy framework. The introduction of several controversial changes in the new […]

Andrew Muchineripi SOCCER One question central to any discussion on the future of national soccer coach Trott Moloto is whether third place at the African Cup of Nations represents success or failure. This humble member of the Muchineripi clan has never been known for fence- sitting and I have no intention of changing good habits […]

Bob Woolmer FROM THE PAVILION Lance Klusener, our hero, and Guy Whittall from Zimbabwe have both been given suspended sentences for swearing at each other. Big deal! If match referees had been in business in 1975, none of the Australian players would have played all year. I was fortunate enough to spend more than eight […]

Fiona Macleod Tigers may soon be roaming free in the foothills of the Drakensberg, like their sabre-toothed cousins did millions of years ago. Two seven-month-old pure-bred Bengal tigers are already in South Africa, waiting to become part of an ambitious scheme to breed these critically endangered cats on the African continent. Three tiger subspecies have […]

sale Mike Loewe Transport parastatal Transnet is planning to sell scores of remote railway properties in the Eastern Cape that have become home to hundreds of evicted farm workers and retired railway workers. The inhabitants of the railway buildings have been renting them from Transnet, which is now poised to sell the properties to neighbouring […]

Ben Ngubane Elisabeth Lickindorf’s article “SA students are scientifically illiterate”(January 14 to 20) is based on the research results of a science literacy survey conducted on first-year university and technikon students in 1994. Dr Rudiger Laugksch and Professor Peter Spargo at the universities of the North and Cape Town published the results of the survey […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Friday 2.00pm. A BATTLE of epic proprtions awaits spectators at Vosloorus Stadium when South Africa’s national under-23 side, the Amaglug-glug take on Cameroon in an Olympic qualifying match on Saturday. The visitors sport a team studded with African Nations Cup jewels, and the Amaglug-glug wil have their work cut out to […]