Astronomers are excited about the discovery of the first multiple-planet solar system outside our own, writes Aaron Nicodemus Announcement of a discovery of a multiple-planet system reminiscent of our own solar system has created excitement throughout the world, offering the first suggestion that planetary systems like our own are abundant. The three planets, which rotate […]
On the election trail with the DP, Howard Barrell finds an unusual ferment among conservative Afrikaners Any ostrich can tell you that he and his kind are much defamed. He does not stick his head in the sand when he feels threatened, hoping this means no one can see him. Instead, the ostrich is a […]
PAUL EJIME, Lagos | Friday 11.00am. FORMER Bafana Bafana coach Phillipe Troussier says Japan, the first Asian side to play in the World Youth Championship final, can beat Spain on Saturday to lift the trophy, said former Bafana Bafna coach Philippe Troussier on Friday. “We respect Spain, but we can still win,” warned Troussier, who […]
Loose cannon:Robert Kirby You know politics is getting eminently stupid when Pik Botha threatens to join the ANC. Foreign minister to foreign object in one easy step. What’s more, it’s entirely the wrong step. What Pik should really be doing is thinking about reviving that trusty old gang of crypto-fascists he used to help manage. […]
Howard Barrell THE LIFE AND TIMES OF THABO MBEKI by Adrian Hadland and Jovial Rantao (Zebra) Our political institutions in South Africa are immature and largely untested. Our system of proportional representation places parliamentary seats more within the gift of party bosses than of bodies of voters. And internal African National Congress processes allow for […]
The timing and setting of Judge Edwin Cameron’s disclosure to the Judicial Service Commission (JSC) that he is HIV- positive – while being interviewed for a post on the Constitutional Court – ensured its impact. Yet it did not come entirely out of the blue: such a coolly courageous action is of a piece with […]
Liela Groenewald Hot on the heels of the BBC filming of the brutal assault of a suspect by Brixton policemen, a Ghanaian academic claims he was a victim of their brutality too. Last Sunday geologist Dr Frank Nyame was confronted by two policemen in Brixton who suspected he was an illegal immigrant. He claims the […]
In 1990, the world’s economic centre of gravity was Tokyo. Share and property prices were in the stratosphere, Japanese banking, electronics, automotive and steel companies were all-victorious, and the economy seemed armour-plated. Yet the true miracle was not Japan’s economy but the delusion on which it was based – a gigantic asset-price bubble whose explosion […]
SOUTH Africans living in London are to mount a placard protest outside the South African High Commission in London on Saturday in support of a growing campaign to allow expats to both register and vote abroad. The New National Party has rejected a scheme introduced by the Independent Electoral Commission last month in terms of […]
Hunting’s ethical custodians caused unethical carnage in Mozambique, reports Dave Larsen Top officials of Safari Club International (SCI), the United States-based international hunting organisation which sets ethical standards for the industry, are being investigated after they allegedly took part in an illegal elephant hunt in northern Mozambique. The hunt took place in contravention of a […]