INJURY has ruled Jonty Rhodes out of South Africa’s first match in the triangular one-day series on Friday. The hamstring problem which put Rhodes out of the fifth and final test against England at Centurion Park earlier this week will also keep the middle order batsman out of the game against Zimbabwe at the Wanderers […]

Browsing THE ANATOMIST by Federico Andahazi (Anchor) History is the book world’s next big thing. An Argentinian psychotherapist journeys to woman’s nether regions to relate the discovery of the clitoris by a 16th-century Italian physician. Although it is historical bunkum, it is a jolly magical realist jape. The heresy that Mateo Colombo commits kindles the […]

STEVEN MANN, Cape Town | Friday 8.45am EXHAUSTED firefighters were breathing easier late on Thursday night, as the series of blazes which have devastated large areas of the city appeared to be under control. “It’s pretty quiet. Everybody is on standby,” said Ian Schnetler of the joint operations control centre. Fires were still burning at […]

David Beresford Another Country Stephen Hawking discovered black holes while climbing from his wheelchair into bed which, as the great man pointed out in his much- celebrated book, A Brief History of Time, is a time-consuming process. His lead is obviously a worthy one to follow, disabled people often having much time on their hands […]

Doctors doing compulsory community service in rural hospitals are getting medical skills that would otherwise not have been possible, reports Khadija Magardie It’s nearly 7am on a rainy Monday at Tintswalo hospital in Acornhoek township, Mpumalanga, and despite the bad weather, the trickle of people queuing outside the doors to the outpatients unit is increasing […]

As the Australian Open began in Melbourne this week, the home crowds expected 18- year-old Adelaide prodigy Lleyton Hewitt to be their next hero. Stephen Bierley reports Most European visitors arriving in Melbourne at this time of year do so in the pitch dark, jet-lagged and saddle sore, with winter still in their bones. They […]

Saturday: In the hot, dry and windy conditions various veld fires spring up in the greater Cape metropolitan area. Sunday: The fire starts in the mountain ranges around Hout Bay in the Silvermine area of the Cape Peninsula National Park. A historic house at East Fort above Chapman’s Peak Drive is destroyed. Staff from the […]

NORTHERN Cape provincial authorities have suspended the entire traffic department of Postmasburg until February 6. The decision was taken after a report by the Northern Cape Auditor-General found that R280000 had mysteriously disappeared from the department’s kitty. In addition, the small traffic department was unable to account for eight missing firearms. Provincial traffic officials have […]

If you weren’t in a unit trust with a heavy resource weighting, you probably missed the 1999 JSE boom, writes Neil Thomas The bull caught investors off guard in the final quarter of 1999, driving share prices and the Johannesburg Stock Exchange’s All Share Index (ASI) to a new high, but leaving most general equity […]

investors Dave Bradfield The market for innovative investment products has grown in the past few years, but innovations in the area of statistical, or quantitative, analysis of these products (and investment funds in general) remain comparatively unknown. With investments, the valuable information is more deeply hidden (it would cease to be valuable if everyone had […]