again A Super 12 rugby victory has once more slipped away from SouthAfrica. Andy Capostagno looks at some of the reasons for the failure Prepare the cold soup, it’s an all-New Zealand final. The Super 12 has again eluded a South African team, just when it seemed that the Stormers offered the best chance since […]
Donna Block The bullion price has sunk to new 20-year lows amid heavy fund selling, and the barbarians are at the gate once again. Most analysts agree the short-term outlook for gold is decisively negative. Traders, speculators and hedge funds are taking advantage of that negative sentiment and keeping the downward pressure on the metal […]
Nobody will ever mistake Manchester United for anything other than the product of Alex Ferguson’s irresistible will. The team who, on Wednesday, attempted to return the championship of Europe to Old Trafford after an absence of 31 years are so identifiably Ferguson’s that the mark he has put on them might have been made with […]
Tara Turkington Northern Cape Premier Manne Dipico is confident he will be back in his office the week after next. At 40, the country’s youngest premier is charming in a down-to-earth and engaging way. “Take me as Manne, man,” he says with a flick of his wrist, “I’m just Manne.” Dipico stayed the five-year distance […]
Aaron Nicodemus A Joubert Park clinic nearly killed a pregnant woman last week during an illegal abortion. The abortion was performed on a 32-year-old Soweto woman who was seven- and-a-half-months pregnant, nearly four months past the legal limit. The woman was sent in a metered taxi from the Hillcrest Family Planning Clinic on May 13 […]
Barbara Ellen Body Language Not so long ago, the world seemed to be full of women only too eager to invest in shop-bought tits. These days, it seems to be more about downsizing. In a nod to Amazons hacking their right breasts off because they interfered with shooting arrows, a British policewoman explained last week […]
Nashen Moodley Political parties in KwaZulu-Natal are making last-ditch efforts to woo a largely apathetic Indian electorate, using remarkably similar strategies. Opposition parties are attempting to convince the Indian population that it is a marginalised minority and are fuelling insecurity within a community already fearful of the triumvirate of crime, affirmative action and Africanism. Indian […]
Minutes of a State Security Council meeting indicate that FW de Klerk knew more about apartheid-era assassinations than he has let on, writes Mungo Soggot FW de Klerk was among a heavyweight contingent of National Party leaders and securocrats present at a State Security Council meeting where former minister of finance Barend du Plessis proposed […]
Aaron Nicodemus Last week it was baboon meat; this week health authorities are warning travellers off eating bats. Bat meat is apparently being served as a delicacy in some restaurants in the Seychelles, but the British Airways Travel Clinic in Johannesburg warns tourists that eating them could be a health risk. Says Dr Andrew Jamieson, […]
Sue Williamson Art Dialogue is yet another initiative which had its germination in the Second Johannesburg Biennale in 1997. (A point worth making to all those with cultural money to allocate who consider biennales a waste of time and money). Ralph Seippel, who shows young international artists in his Cologne gallery, came to Johannesburg for […]