For the past few years Natal’s Sharks have been the dominant South African Super 12 team, but this season it is the Stormers who are showing the form to reach the final stages, writes Andy Capostagno If you listen you can hear it, the shuffling of booted feet. And if you happen to see out […]
Acclaimed by many as the most vibrant act at Womad this year, British Asian group Fun-da- mental is as politically uncompromising as it is musically innovative, writes Nashen Moodley Fun-da-mental’s performances at Womad will remain etched on the memories of all who watched them for several reasons. Womad, though a wonderful experience by all accounts, […]
There’s more to investment clubs than starting a stokvel. Alex Brown explains how to get your savings on the stock exchange `Give me an acorn and the passage of time and I’ll give you an oak tree.” So it is with money – but the problem is that few of us are Zen enough to […]
I am aware that the term “Harare’s nightlife” could be said to be a contradictio in adjectio, like hot snow or cold fire. Two years ago, I’d fully agree. Not now. Sleepy Harare is coming out of its torpor, and not only with food riots. Hot tip: nightlife begins and ends early because Harare is […]
Malachy McCourt 44: A DUBLIN MEMOIR by Peter Sheridan (Macmillan) Will the Irish ever stop the churning out of novels, poetry, epics, histories, stories (short or long, individual or collected) and now a flood of memoirs? Not bloody likely, sez the man, not with the world standing with eagerness and wallets agape to pay for […]
I was extremely disturbed to read in the Daily Mail & Guardian the other day that the South African government had refused political asylum to Catherine Kaunda, daughter of former president Kenneth Kaunda. I do not know the full particulars of the case. Whatever the reason, it is the right of a sovereign government to […]
Ann Eveleth A Pretoria father is suing the government for failing to protect his three-year-old daughter who was raped by a state mental patient who wandered into their neighbourhood. The Pretoria High Court will be asked next month to decide whether the state has a constitutional duty to protect the security of its citizens. Westfort […]
ZIMBABWEAN authorities on Wednesday postponed without explanation an identification parade for the suspected torturers of three alleged United States mercenaries, defence laywers said. The three US citizens are facing terrorism charges after arrested on March 7 in possession of arms of war in their luggage as they attempted to board a Swiss Airline to Zurich. […]
Marianne Merten A lack of change in their lives and disillusionment with politics are key reasons why many Cape Flats youths are likely to stay away from the polls on June 2. One youth who will not be voting is Dale, of the working-class area of Heideveld. Now 23 years old, he was a first-time […]
Sharon Hammond A game ranger who fought the bureaucracy of the Kruger National Park for more than 10 years put the world-renowned reserve in the dock this week, exposing an inner ring of senior managers more intent on empire building than conservation. Wayne Lotter has brought a case of constructive dismissal before the Commission for […]