Maggie Davey The artist formerly known as Sinead O’Connor has made a startling metamorphosis. Not content with having acted the role of the Virgin Mary in The Butcher Boy, a recent film by Neil Jordan, O’Connor has now been ordained (twice) in the Tridentine Catholic faith. In addition to paying 150 000 to finance an […]
Charlene Smith talks to a teen rape victim who is battling to rebuild her life Alexandra smiles and clasps her fine-boned hands tightly. “This week is a very bad one, things are building up, I argued with my principal, I feel as though I’m not matching up, my hockey is not my best, I’m getting […]
Women make up two-fifths of the Internet audience. Yet very few Web businesses target them. It’s a lost opportunity, argues Azeem Azhar Why don’t women like the Web? Nearly four million of Britain’s 10-million Web users are women, and they are joining at a faster rate than men: four years ago women represented only 30% […]
THURSDAY, 11.30AM: BAFANA Bafana will play fellow World Cup qualifiers Romania in Bucharest in their final warm-up game in preparation for their opening World Cup match against France on June 12. The South Africans were scheduled to play Slovakia in their final warm-up, but South African Football Association CEO Danny Jordaan said the change was […]
Internet Duncan Campbell European Commission documents obtained this week reveal plans to require manufacturers and operators to build “interception interfaces” into the Internet and digital communications systems. The plans, drafted by a United States-led international security organisation, will be proposed to European Union justice and home affairs ministers at the end of May. They appear […]
As a venue, the expansive informality of the restaurant atmosphere within On Broadway provides a perfect platform for the staging of British playwright John Godber’s outrageous comedy, Bouncers. There’s something appealing about watching a play that explores the dynamics of nightclub culture in a performance space smack in the midst of Cape Town clubland. Thematically, […]
British investment strategists have predicted a turnaround in South Africa’s economic fortunes, writes Shaun Harris Don’t break out the champagne, sorry, sparkling wine, yet, but a reversal in the economic fortunes of the current world powerhouse and a fallen Eastern giant could bring vast benefits to South Africa. Optimism about the global economy in general […]
Name: Kary Mullis Institution: Independent Field: Invented polymerase chain reaction Only rarely can you say of a scientist that, without him or her, the world would be a different place. But it is true of Kary Mullis, who is an integral part of the history of the genetic revolution. Mullis is an unlikely member of […]
THE Receiver of Revenue’s employees will, subject to approval of the Auditor General, be given almost six months (48%) salary as a bonus this year, as a reward for their success in collecting tax for the treasury. Christo Henning, national spokesperson of the South African Revenue Service (SARS), said on Tuesday that the AG is […]
Gabriel Garca Mrquez on the crusading Colombian who could be the new Pope Cardinal Daro Castrilln Hoyos sleeps in the bed that Pope Pius XII died in. The painting of the Immaculate Conception hanging above the bronze bedhead once belonged to Leo XIII. His apartment, lying 30m from the border between Italy and the Holy […]