Grim new demographic details show that life for most South Africans is not getting better, and may well be getting worse. With an estimated 4,7-million people unemployed and looking for work, and only 5,1-million in formal employment, it is hardly surprising that life remains tough for ordinary people in the democratic South Africa. But it […]
Once peopled by white males, expeditions to the wild places south of us are increasingly taking on black and female adventurers, writes Charl de Villiers No island, no matter how remote, is immune to South Africa’s “rainbow revolution”. The administrators of the South African National Antarctic Programme (Sanap) have just fielded the first black woman […]
ISAAC MOFOKENG, the man who shot and wounded Johannesburg Zoo’s Max the gorilla while fleeing from police in July 1994, was sentenced to 40 years in jail in the Johannesburg Regional Court on Friday. Mofokeng, who was convicted on 10 counts including rape, robbery, housebreaking and malicious damage to property (for shooting the R2,5-million gorilla), […]
Matthew Krouse Down the tube There are about three instances of home- brewed humour on television these days, most of them old hat. Suburban Bliss, Khululeka and Vetkoekpaleis are the resident local acts, in programming that includes well over 20 imported sitcoms. While comedies like Frasier and Seinfeld have become national treasures, the dearth of […]
ELEMENTS of separatist rebels in Senegal’s Casamance region have begun disarming, 16 years after a bloody war of independence broke out, the Sud Quotidien newspaper reported in Dakar on Wednesday. The Democratic Movement of Casamance Forces (MFDC), led by Augustin Diamacoune, began disarming as part of a restructuring exercise, the paper said. Hopes for peace […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Durban | Friday 6.00pm. DOUBLE Olympic gold medallist Penny Heyns swam her second fastest 200m breaststroke ever in 2:25,84 at the national swimming championships in Durban on Friday, just missing her Olympic and African mark of 2:25,41. Free State’s Ryk Neethling broke the African record in the men’s 100m freestyle, dramatically coming from […]
AFRICAN leaders were to meet in Luanda on Wednesday to review widening wars in Angola and the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Angolan state radio said. The radio quoted senior officials as saying Democratic Republic of Congo President Laurent Kabila, Angolan President Jose Eduardo dos Santos, Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe and President Sam Nujoma of […]
The choice of the former editor of the Financial Mail, Nigel Bruce, as a leading candidate for the Democratic Party is somehow symptomatic of the forthcoming general election in South Africa. If there is one party we would expect to be looking forward to June 2 it is the DP. After all, it seems to […]
ANGOLAN authorities are opposed to setting up humanitarian corridors for civilians affected by the civil war, government sources said on Wednesday. The United Nations World Food Programme supports such measures in order to ensure essential food can be distributed. But the government believes the current military situation precludes the setting up of the corridors. The […]
Jonathan Jones One day last August the great photographer Henri Cartier-Bresson opened his copy of Le Monde and was shocked by what he saw. There next to each other were two pictures – one of his old friend Pablo Picasso, the other of a new car, the Citron Xsara Picasso, bearing not just Picasso’s name […]