CD of the week Shaun de Waal One doesn’t quite get the band name. In any case, New Radicals (no “the”) appears to be less a band than composer/producer/singer Gregg Alexander doing his thing with a little enthusiastic help from his friends. And the title of his/their debut CD, Maybe You’ve Been Brainwashed Too (MCA), […]
For the determined investor, there is more than one way to push the limit, reports Shaun Harris The capping of yet another global unit trust fund this week – this time Old Mutual’s recently launched Global Technology Fund – underscores the asset swap limitations being faced by unit trust management companies. Under current Reserve Bank […]
Matthew Krouse Down the tube >From the outset one would think that Baby Fathers, showing on June 16 at 9pm on e.tv would be the most depressing documentary ever made. But actually it’s not. Take the subject matter: three teenage fathers living in the townships, who have had their offspring early. They’re poor, inexperienced and […]
Aaron Nicodemus Thembi Nkosi is 20 years old, and manager of a print and coffee shop with dreams of owning his own printing business. He knows the nuts and bolts of how to run a business – balancing its books, ordering stock, keeping customers happy. He got the job by writing a business plan for […]
According to a recent study, the rape homicide rate in Cape Town is 12 times higher than in the United States. Charlene Smith reports In the photograph is a beautiful young woman sitting with her boyfriend. It is a 21st-birthday photograph. Six years before she was raped so violently with a sharp object in her […]
Aids myths? Myths, quasi-myths and questions about Aids abound. Donald McNeil Jnr attempts to demystify the epidemic in Southern Africa Donald G McNeil Jnr Despite its size, South Africa is number one in the world in several fields: rugby, cricket, tuberculosis and Aids. One hears too little about the last two. In 1990, a New […]
Several familiar faces are missing from the South African team to meet Italy on Saturday – and their replacements have the talent to keep them on the sidelines, writes Andy Capostagno Nine changes and four uncapped players on the bench. You could be forgiven for thinking that Nick Mallett has gone mad. But it is […]
Makhosini Nkosi and Wally Mbhele The ruling African National Congress celebrated its landslide victory in the country’s second democratic elections this week in grand style. The party forked out more than R180 000 to set up an election nerve centre and a celebration at Gallagher Estate in Midrand near Johannesburg. Even a bomb scare that […]
In 1918, at the age of 40, my maternal grandfather was stricken by a form of viral influenza, popularly known as the Spanish flu, which was decimating much of Europe. Within a week, despite the best efforts of three physicians, he died. In 1972, at the age of 40, I was stricken by a serious […]
Stephen Bierley in Paris Tennis Andre Agassi, the pigeon-toed, scrub-headed Las Vegas American they call “Mr Electricity”, among more derogatory names, staged the comeback of his life to win the French Open with a remarkable 1-6, 2-6, 6- 4, 6-3, 6-4 victory over Andrei Medvedev. By doing so he became only the fifth man in […]