Robyn Hofmeyr Jeremy’s friend and neighbour Sunday, a typical highveld winter evening. Temperature inversion, the smell of thousands of coal-smoke fires. It’s early evening, not a great time if you’re the parents of young children. My youngest kid is fractious, he wants his bottle and clings to my trouser leg while my older kid whines […]
roams Justin Pearce The bakkie still rules in the Karoo. By 8am on election day, the Nissans and Isuzus of the Sutherland district begin bearing their cargo of voters to the polls – each with a white farmer at the wheel and coloured farm workers in the back. They travel along long dirt roads where […]
THURSDAY, 11.30AM: DESPITE a slight increase in new vehicle sales from April, May sales fell sharply compared to the corresponding period in 1997, reflecting the overall sluggishness in the economy and uncertainty in international markets. The National Association of Automobile Manufacturers of South Africa now expects that an anticipated recovery in the vehicle sales market […]
It may be worth losing a few percentage points growth on your investments in exchange for a peaceful night’s sleep, writes Shaun Harris Investment decisions should be amoral, shouldn’t they? In a perfect world, perhaps. But suspending moral judgment is not easy in modern society where the profit motive is still widely regarded with suspicion […]
Gavin Dudley With the recent media emphasis on global telecommunications, meaning that more people around the world are in touch more of the time, we could reasonably expect our cellphones to continue working wherever we are in the world. Sadly this is still not the case, though this is not a limitation of telecommunications technology, […]
Ken Barris THE STOOPING OF AQUILA by Tony Spencer- Smith (Manx) Tony Spencer-Smith won the 1992 M-Net Book Prize for a teen novel, The Man Who Snarled at Flowers. The Stooping of Aquila, an “erotic thriller”, is his first for adults. The book is in the Wilbur Smith mould – villain Damion Storm is a […]
Food and Fine Art Andrew Putter Long Life is the new ramen bar under the Lounge in Long Street. Elegantly occupying a space which once housed the infamous Mau Mau artsite, it’s a narrow, high-ceilinged galley, minimally furnished with wood-slatted benches and a trendy front door. It’s exotic (ice with the Chinese beer), and the […]
Drive-in movies are about to take on a whole new meaning as in-car entertainment gets under way. Ashley Norris reports Forget I-Spy! If the kids in the back of your car are restless, you’ll soon be able to entertain them with Rugrats: The Movie on digital versatile disc (DVD) in cinema-style surround sound. In the […]
Loose cannon Robert Kirby `Every millisecond of the day the brain gets signals from sensors all over the body. It stores these signals along the sensory cortex, a kind of cerebral filing- cabinet with a drawer for each finger, lip, leg or arm and so on. “So, for example, when a finger is required to […]
They know that most South Africans don’t care about Kosovo, but the Yugoslav community of Johannesburg feel strongly about what’s happening in their motherland, writes Kit Peel It seems there is no stopping the United States president. To divert the limelight from the famous “safe sex” Starr report, Bill Clinton began one of the most […]