Wonder Hlongwa A taxi driver from Pinetown in KwaZulu- Natal claims he was arrested, handcuffed to a chair for seven hours, assaulted and suffocated after he reported to police that his minibus was stolen. Three weeks ago, the minibus Mthokozisi Mwelase (26) drives was stolen outside his home. He reported the theft at the Marianhill […]
The G8 nations have pledged a $100-billion debt relief package. Gary Younge reports from Mozambique, one of the first countries in line for such relief. Julius Nyerere Avenue in Maputo starts on the shores of the Indian Ocean and runs in a more-or-less straight line towards apparent prosperity. The road stretches past the palatial Polana […]
Angela Neustatter Body Language Mid-life isn’t what it used to be. The days when women of a certain age were expected to fade into the wallpaper, wearing beige crimplene and accepting they had reached their sell-by date, are no more than a memory. And what has caused this disruption of the definition of mid-life? The […]
Alarm bells are ringing after the Canadian and Spanish Grands Prix produced less wheel-to-wheel action than ever, writes Alan Henry So finally Bernie Ecclestone and Max Mosley, the two most powerful voices in Formula One, have conceded what most spectators have known for many a season. Overtaking is – wait for it – “probably a […]
The best show at the National Arts Festival this year will be on TV. Alex Dodd spoke to Christo Doherty, the force behind Cue- TV Most people over 25 who decide to relocate to Grahamstown are in downshifting mode. The idea is to settle down and enjoy a few more good novels. Not so for […]
COMRADES Marathon 1997 champion Charl Mattheus, who withdrew from the down race at Kloof on June 16, is recovering following surgery to reattach his Achilles tendon on Monday. Following the operation, doctors are confident that Mattheus will make a full recovery and will be back on the road by early next year. “I am determined […]
Shaun Harris Taking Stock The latest, long-awaited interest rate cut should have us all ecstatic. The drop in prime and home-loan lending rates from 19% to 18% certainly seemed to please some people, typically those commentators who herald every rate cut, drop in inflation and rise in gross domestic product as the dawn of a […]
The appointment of his Cabinet fitted the last pieces into a power jigsaw that will guarantee President Thabo Mbeki control over every level of South Africa’s government, reports Ivor Powell With a full minister of government attached to the Office of the President; a beefed up Cabinet secretariat to co-ordinate and oversee the implementation of […]
THE Moroccan government has withdrawn permission for the human rights body Amnesty International to hold its annual conference this August in Rabat, Amnesty said on Thursday. Some 400 delegates from Amnesty were to have spent 10 days in the Moroccan capital, the first time that an Arab country had agreed to host the rights body’s […]
Alex Sudheim Celebrating its 20th birthday this year is the Durban International Film Festival, one of South Africa’s premier cinematic events. With a programme boasting 30 intriguing examples of alternative cinema from around the globe, the festival is a blessed relief for Durban cinephiles starved of indie action. Since Ster Kinekor’s technocrats deemed the city […]