Motor giant Toyota has been playing a behind-the-scenes role in the battle over the government’s plans to shake up the taxi industry. Reports by Ivor Powell, Scotch Tagwireyi and Evidence wa ka Ngobeni Dissidents in the taxi business threatening to disrupt the government’s plans to revamp the industry have been linked to motor giant Toyota […]

Tennis world number one Andre Agassi earns his place as a great with his sixth major title, writes Stephen Bierley Such has been the remarkable turn of events in Andre Agassi’s life over the past eight months – four consecutive grand slam finals, with victories in Paris, New York and now Melbourne – that men’s […]

NET WATCH During a recent Guardian debate over the commercialisation of the net, ntk.net’s editor Danny O’Brien complained that banner advertising was now taking longer to download than the actual content of most web pages. Users with local dial-up connections find this particularly frustrating, so finding a way to circumvent the bandwidth- eating ads could […]

David Le Page TAKING STOCK As dot.coms scream up the graphs in the United States and Europe, it’s hard for local investors to ignore the lure of the information technology sector. Media stories about the Y2K problem have been replaced by predictions for likely IT developments in the next 20 or 30 years that would […]

Luvuyo Kakaza Acclaimed actor and director John Kani, recently honoured by the Hiroshima Foundation in Sweden, this week shrugged off a challenge in letters to newspapers by actor Pieter-Dirk Uys to contribute his substantial prize to the cash- strapped Market Theatre, where he is artistic director. Uys said he was delighted that Kani had received […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Kumasi | Thursday 12.20pm. AFTER Bafana Bafana 1-1 draw with Algeria on Wednesday night, coach Trott Molotto said his team “will go for the kill” against Ghana on Sunday. “You know we are already in the knockout stages. We are definitely going for the kill against the Black Stars,” Molotto said at a […]

Peter Dickson Eastern Cape sangoma and self-styled direct royal descendant and chief Nicholas Tilana Gcaleka, who hit world headlines four years ago with his British hunt for the head of 19th-century Xhosa King Hintsa, has taken legal action to retrieve the skull from the University of Cape Town (UCT). But the UCT forensic medicine department’s […]

John Sutherland Think computer and you think 21st century. A techno-archaeologist looking at homo faber’s favourite tool sees something different: a state-of-the-art brain attached to a Sixties TV set, and a device at the human interface which has survived for 120 years: the “Remington-Qwerty” keyboard. The modern computer is an XJS Jag with a rusty […]

Charles BurgessSoccer In a corner of my mother’s house is a pin- sharp picture, taken by me, of Bobby Charlton scoring the winning goal of the 1970 World Cup. The balding maestro is bent forward, having just unleashed one of his trademark screamers from outside the box, and the ball has just hit the net, […]