divider Zimbabwe was once seen as one of the success stories of Africa after colonialism. But there are pictures which still tell a tale of division. In 1999, the issues are black and white, but also about class, writes Andrew Meldrum The Harare Club’s teak-panelled walls speak of years of tradition, privilege and exclusivity, dating […]
THE Southern African Development Community Task Force is poised to establish a command structure to effectively rebuff a rebel onslaught in the east of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. “We felt that such a unified command structure will co-ordinate our forces and strategically combat fierce fighting in the east of the country,” Brigadier-General Denga […]
Fight judge Eugenia Williams had to deliver in the Holyfield/Lewis bout or knew she would not `work in this town again’, writes Kevin Mitchell According to the billboard over the freeway as you come out of New York through the Lincoln Tunnel, North New Jersey regards itself as “the embroidery capital of the world”. Weird, […]
Howard Barrell:OVER A BARREL As President Nelson Mandela prepared his farewell to Parliament this week, I could not help feeling that the grand old man was not the only person deserving of applause. Every MP could also justifiably take a bow. So, too, could each South African. For Mandela’s farewell on Friday March 26, the […]
The universe is not going to continue to expand into infinity, writes Michael Brooks, but only until it falls apart – in about 15- billion years Is there such a thing as eternal life? Of all the questions mankind has wrestled with over the millennia, this one has been a consistent source of concern. Well, […]
Music: Malu van Leeuwen `I ain’t fucking satisfied! I ain’t satisfied!’ Keith Flint of Prodigy is not satisifed with a screaming audience of thousands, he’s not satisfied with those hands in the air showing him the finger like all good dance punks. Flint marches round the stage with his hair (what there is of it) […]
THE government has expressed its “grave concern” at the Nato military action against Yugoslavia. In a statement on Thursday, the Department of Foreign Affairs said: “This is in violation of the United Nations Charter and accepted norms of international law and it has exacerbated the situation in the Balkans.” The statement stressed the need to […]
The pilot radioed Luanda repeatedly: “Permission to climb; permission to climb higher.” It was the first clear indication of war in the provinces. The small Beechcraft plane, heavily laden, was struggling to its maximum air height to avoid possible Unita missiles as it flew over the city of Malange. Luanda had been subdued, but calm […]
Shaun de Waal Finding Peter Mayle’s book about France, Toujours Provence, in the contemporary fiction section of a bookshop recently, I pedantically pointed out that it wasn’t fiction and should perhaps be in the travel section. “But it’s travel fiction,” said one of the assistants, clearly not swayed by my arguments. I was reminded of […]
Peter Dickson Within a day of being spirited away overnight, Port Elizabeth’s stolen Sophakama High School turned up all over the place after a wild donkey chase in the city’s Kwazakhele township. Port Elizabeth community policing board chair Vuyisile Njikelana was on his way to work in Motherwell last Wednesday when he spotted a donkey […]