Nicole Turner There were a lot of firsts when Interdesign ’99 Water kicked off simultaneously in Mexico, Australia and South Africa in April this year. Industrial design experts from around the world had gathered to brainstorm about water, which all those participating agreed was life itself. Although this was the 32nd Interdesign conference since 1972, […]
Andrew Muchineripi Soccer The draw for the 1999 African Champions League club competition was particularly kind to Sundowns as they dodged potentially awkward opponents from Angola, Zambia and Zimbabwe in the preliminary rounds. They duly disposed of enthusiastic but limited Telecom Wanderers of Malawi in the first round, with burly Nigerian striker Raphael Chukwu scoring […]
Loose cannon Robert Kirby Background music, Muzak, piped music, whatever might you call it, has become one of the most toxic of urban excreta. It doesn’t matter where you go, you can never escape it. In restaurant and supermarket, in the street, on the telephone, at the filling station, even in your barber’s chair you […]
was last week Andy Capostagno Rugby The sound of Newlands last Sunday was the sound of crumbs of comfort being swept up. Yes, the Stormers had lost to the Cats, but no one got badly injured, the bonus point for a close loss ensured a home semi-final and other results meant that the Crusaders were […]
There’s no need to worry about global warming, argues Dennis Avery. History shows it will lead to great benefits `Climate extremes would trigger meteorological chaos – raging hurricanes such as we have never seen, capable of killing millions of people; uncommonly long, record-breaking heat waves; and profound drought that could drive Africa and the entire […]
Friday night Isaac Chokwe and Tim Horwood We left the office at 7.06pm, unaware of what lay ahead on this autumn Friday night. At the intersection of Jan Smuts and Empire roads I noticed a movement through my open window and glanced to my right … but nothing happened, no one ran up to the […]
Intel’s next chips will be too clever for today’s programs. Jack Schofield reports on a scheme to help rewrite the way we work The PC industry is preparing a great leap forward that will more than double the power of computers. The problem is that there is hardly any software to exploit the extra capability. […]
Evidence wa ka Ngobeni Three student leaders at the University of Venda (Univen) may face criminal charges after it emerged they stole tens of thousands of rands from student coffers. The three student representative council (SRC) officials have been suspended from the organisation pending investigations into abuse of office and fraud. Univen’s SRC representative confirmed […]
Phillip vanNiekerk:FROM THE EDITOR’S DESK The truism that a week can be a long time in politics has been brought home to me. At the end of last month I devoted this column to what I had thought to be an unanswerable case against newspapers coming out in support of political parties – a practice […]
Wally Mbhele The Independent Electoral Commission (IEC) announced this week that it was ready to deliver South Africa’s second democratic elections and promised that the 1994 chaos that saw the shortage of ballot papers would not occur on June 2. They are expecting more than 20-million potential voters go to the polls. Confident IEC officials […]