Mercedes Sayagues:BODY LANGUAGE I saw my ex-boyfriend for the first time in the 10 months since we broke up. We live in different cities and I went to his for a reporting job so it seemed natural to look him up for a friendly chat. As we sat over a ridiculous, formal lunch where we […]
Alex Sudheim Poetry is one of the great human paradoxes. Consumed as we are by infinite labyrinths of emotion and thought, we have at our disposal but one rudimentary tool for the expression of our ephemeral selves: that famously deficient thing called language. As Samuel Beckett once pointed out: “Every word is an unnecessary stain […]
Ted Leggett As if the South African Police Service (SAPS) wasn’t in enough hot water over the filming of police brutality by BBC-TV, it recently had to deal with a series of attacks from the country’s deputy president. At an election rally in the Indian suburb of Chatsworth recently, a police member asked Thabo Mbeki […]
Vic Marks Even those of us who groan about the proliferation of so-called one-day specialists in England’s World Cup squad do not quibble about the selection of Neil Fairbrother. He may be 35 years old, stuck with a Test average of 15 and and the owner of two disobedient hamstrings that often seem to twang […]
British newspapers have been `leaked’ damaging documents in what appears to be an elaborate plot to smear President Nelson Mandela, write Martin Welz and Mungo Soggot Several British newspapers have been probing a story that President Nelson Mandela accepted a kickback as part of a Nigerian oil deal. The allegations appear to be part of […]
TWO teachers, including a school principal, opened fire on a group of their pupils in KwaZulu-Natal on Thursday, killing one and seriously wounding three. The incident happened when pupils from a high school in the Cele district, south of Durban, stoned their teachers to protest the bus fare required for a school outing, The Starreports. […]
Anthony Minnaar >From 1994 to 1998, an average of 240 police members were murdered every year – almost one a day, a total of nearly 1 200 in four years. This is one of the highest figures in the world. Only China, and to a lesser extent Russia, approach this annual figure. The United States […]
provinces Ian Clayton Plans by the African Natonal Congress to downgrade provincial governments in favour of stronger municipalities will result in a constitutional fight that the party is bound to lose unless it has a clean sweap of Parliament and provincial legislatures in the June 2 election. Even then, it will take a major rethink […]
ANNUAL passenger car sales worldwide will barely top 32-million in 2000, 3,3-million vehicles fewer than last year’s turnover, reducing sales to levels last seen in the 1980s, Britain’s Economist Intelligence Unit said on Thursday. “Overall world car sales will not exceed their 1997 peak volumes again until 2003,” the EIU said in an abstract from […]
SEVEN people, including a 10-year-old Pefferville girl, were injured during a stampede at the Ziphunzana stadium in Duncan village in the Eastern Cape where Deputy President Thabo Mbeki addressed a rally on Thursday. The stampede reportedly happened as the crowd surged into the stadium. African National Congress’ East London/King William’s Town regional secretary Sindisile Maclean […]