LESOTHO’S King Letsie III has agreed to pay lobola (bride price) of 40 head of cattle for the woman he will marry later this year, University of Lesotho science student Karabo Motsoening. The cattle will be driven from the ancestral palace at Matsieng, south of Maseru, on Saturday morning to the farm of the parents […]
FRIDAY, 3.30PM: THERE is concern in business that government is not taking a lead in creating employment. The issue came into the spotlight on Thursday as organised labour and the Democratic Party unveiled their perspectives on job creation. Saying that the long-anticipated jobs summit will happen “towards the end of the year”, Labour Minister Tito […]
Lyn Gardner Last month a little-known theatre group called Frantic Assembly played Singapore’s Zouk Club, described by dance guru Judge Jules as “the best club on the planet”. When they last played London, in the informal surroundings of the BAC theatre, the crowd looked like the overspill from one of the capital’s trendier nightclubs. That […]
Ann Eveleth South Africa’s “other half” – the rural poor – will descend on the birthplace of the African National Congress this weekend to thrash out a new charter demanding their fair share of the economic pie. Delegates from rural communities across the country will meet at the national Rural Convention in Bloemfontein to draft […]
A decade after Lockerbie, the West has at last got its men: two Libyans who London and Washington say planted the bomb that killed 270 people. But the case is not that open-and- shut, says Russell Warren Howe More than 10 years after the fatal crash of a Pan Am airliner on the Scottish village […]
Sarah Ryle At last an economics professor has done something useful. He has worked out that punters who chose the six least popular numbers from the British National Lottery’s list of 49 stand to make an average weekly return of 11% on their stakes. The magic numbers – 36, 41, 46, 47, 48 and 49 […]
Marianne Merten The Western Cape’s top detective and one of the key investigators of the anti-urban terrorism campaign Operation Good Hope, Director Leonard Knipe, is set to head a new unit investigating crimes against the state. His promotion was finalised last week despite criticism that Knipe has failed to effectively deal with the violence in […]
Jack Schofield Three of the world’s best-known companies – Microsoft, America OnLine (AOL) and Yahoo! – are locked in a billion-dollar battle to give you something for nothing: a “portal”, or gateway to the Internet, where Web wanderers can start when they go online. Portals attract millions of users, and consequently lots of advertising. With […]
Matthew Krouse Down the tube These nights I don’t feel much pressed to go out, looking for something I can very well experience in my lounge. With music playing on television through the night, I can read my books, do my drugs, make my love and drink myself to death without interruption, to some of […]
Ivor Powell Six truckloads of weapons delivered to Inkatha Freedom Party strongman Phillip Powell represent only a fraction of the arsenal distributed by former Vlakplaas commander Eugene de Kock to agents of the apartheid regime. The Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC)is in possession of evidence that in advance of the 1994 elections, enough weapons to […]