Neil Manthorp Cricket A “Carnival of Cricket” indeed. The organisers’ slogan for this tournament might even have worked if the competition had not turned so quickly into a circus, and a badly organised one at that. The opening ceremony produced more laughs than a red-nosed clown and World Cup simply hasn’t looked back, err, forward […]
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 […]
Dan Wylie takes a look at some recent volumes of South African poetry In the hand, Jeremy Gordin’s Pomegranates for My Son (Random House) feels solid, the font unpretentious on a cover of warm amber whose texture is at once rough and even. Ditto for the contents. These poems are generous as a bear hug, […]
ABOUT 5000 United Democratic Movement supporters will march to the offices of African National Congress Northern Province premier Ngoako Ramatlhodi, on Saturday, to demand the release of a controversial report on traditional chiefs. Provincial UDM leader Reverend Kingsley Masemola accused the premier on Thursday of wanting to withhold the report until after the June 2 […]
Adrienne Viljoen’s favourite saying is, “‘n Boer maak ‘n plan,” which she translates as “a man makes a plan”. As manager of the South African Bureau of Standards Design Institute, she believes that Africans have the innate ability to design solutions to day-to-day problems. “People are ingenious at solving problems, but they don’t think in […]
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 […]
feet’ Sharon Hammond A senior manager in the Kruger National Park was accused this week of being a foul- mouthed tyrant who terrified his staff members and tortured animals. The Commission for Conciliation, Mediation and Arbitration (CCMA) heard in Nelspruit that the trails and information manager, Bruce Bryden, allegedly cut off the feet of elephants […]
Aaron Nicodemus Reports that an Ebola-like virus was brought home by Zimbabwean soldiers are false, say the World Health Organisation (WHO) and Zimbabwe health officials. Dr Moudi Abdou, WHO representative in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, says the virus has been contained within the Congo, and that no new cases have appeared since April […]
Y Abba Omar Crossfire Being a public servant and, more importantly, being part of the government’s communication system, it is only when I came across the words of James Fallows that I felt encouraged to write this piece. Fallows wrote in Breaking the News: ”In response to suggestions that the press has failed to meet […]