OWN CORRESPONDENT, Asmara | Sunday 6.00pm. THE Eritrea bubble burst when they lost 1-0 against Zimbabwe in Asmara on Sunday in the first of six mini-league matches to decide the final qualifier for the 2000 African Nations Cup. Veteran Swiss-based striker Adam Ndlovu scored the winner after 25 minutes before a capacity 10000 crowd crammed […]
Meaning remains just beyond reach in the works of visiting artist Jenö Gindl, writes Lauren Shantall.
A woman who once managed a Katlehong park has taken charge of 340 of Johannesburg’s `green lungs’, writes Luvuyo Kakaza The sun slants over the green trees of Rhodes Park in Kensington, Johannesburg, where Michelle van Blerk is the new “boss”. Besides this vibrant park, she is responsible for maintaining 340 municipal parks in the […]
Marianne Merten Six former Cape Town street children left for Germany for two weeks to meet other children at risk as part of a life-skills programme. It was the first time Shana Steer (14) from Mitchells Plain and Vuyiswa Nogioa (17) from Nyanga East left Cape Town. Both are excited and, by their own admission, […]
Chris Dunton ALF KUMALO: SOUTH AFRICAN PHOTOGRAPHER edited by Itala Vivan (Leonardo Arte) This beautifully designed and printed album reproduces around 150 of Alf Kumalo’s photos, ranging from his work in the 1950s as a Drum staffer to photos of the 1990s. Four decades worth of some of the most striking photo-reportage produced in South […]
capital city Luvuyo Kakaza A Mail & Guardian editorial (“Rename Pretoria Mandela City”, June 18 to 24) has found favour with politicians at the Greater Pretoria Metropolitan Council and the Pretoria City Council. Max van der Wath, a councillor at the Pretoria City Council, said the idea of renaming Pretoria Mandela City has merit. “It […]
Shaun Harris Taking Stock There is still an intimidating air about private banks. They service an exclusive ring of wealthy, often powerful clients who fall within the scope of that dreadful term, “high net-worth individuals”. So are private banks really only for the filthy rich? Well yes, but not as exclusively as in the past. […]
Ken Daniels Horse-racing This year’s Rothmans July seemed to have fallen flat when the horse racing fraternity’s VIP decided not to come to the party. But the event may still be saved by a surprise guest who slipped in the back door at the last minute. Horse wonder Horse Chestnut was just threatening to capture […]
Wonder Hlongwa The recent spate of deaths among young people in Highflats, KwaZulu-Natal, believed to be caused by Aids, has prompted the formation of a youth self-help group whose aim is to spearhead an Aids awareness campaign in the area. Situated between the South Coast and Natal Midlands, Highflats is one of the poorest and […]
1975: Angola wins independence from Portugal amid civil war and intervention from the apartheid regime in South Africa. The conflict evolves into a war between the new Marxist MPLA government and its main rival, the then Maoist Unita led by Jonas Savimbi. Cold war years: Washington funds Unita while apartheid South Africa fights many of […]