Ferial Haffajee : TAKING STOCK >From the Top of Africa we look down on one of the continent’s largest cities. Johannesburg. At the top of the Carlton Centre (now called the Top of Africa), the city looks like a mini-land. Cars rush about on highways that criss-cross the city linking Sandton in the north with […]
ONE of President Nelson Mandela’s nephews, Reverend Daliwonga Mandela, is to establish a branch of the New National Party at Motherwell, near Port Elizabeth. NNP MP Dr Manie Schoeman said in Parliament on Thursday that Reverend Mandela had resigned from the African National Congress in 1990 and has now decided to join the NNP. Said […]
SWAZILAND’s King Mswati III opened the two-day Southern African Development Community defence and security committee meeting on Thursday with the recommendation that the regional trading bloc establish a peacekeeping force. Addressing delegates from 14 SADC countries in the Swazi capital, Mbabane, Mswati said an impartial peacekeeping force would be the most effective way to promote […]
Friday night : Rudeboy Paul Kicking back after a week of Groove Kamikazes till 10, where to go since Y2K burned down? To get down till break of dawn with beautiful girls and chilled vibes? Nice and easy? Last couple of weeks, I’ve been mellowing out over a Jack Daniels and lime checking out the […]
The Walkman is dead. Long live the Sony PlayStation, writes Faisal Islam Lara Croft’s newly released album on Sony Records is not available in the shops. Fans of the electronic games heroine turned virtual pop star will have to hook up their PlayStation to a Sony digital network and download directly to minidisc in seconds. […]
John Rawling : Boxing Evander Holyfield is demanding a staggering $25-million to be tempted back into the ring to face Lennox Lewis in a rematch this year. According to promoters, Lewis would be looking for a 50-50 split rather than the one-third he took on Saturday but the American television company which underwrites the deal […]
A caring organisation is finding homes for abandoned babies, writes Aaron Nicodemus Ten years ago, the maternity ward at Pietermaritzburg’s Edendale hospital was overflowing with abandoned babies. At one stage it was caring for 64 infants. They lived three or four to a crib and received barely adequate medical care. They were unwanted and unloved. […]
Andy Capostagno : Rugby There will be those based in the north of the country who are experiencing a severe sense of dj vu about the Super 12 performance of the Gauteng Cats. You may recall that the Cats won their first match last year (39-32 vs Northern Bulls), then lost nine in a row […]
Ben Laurance For a few fleeting moments last Friday, traders on the oil market apparently thought the worst might be over. Leaders of Opec, the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries, emerged from a meeting in the Hague to declare member states would be cutting oil production by two million barrels a day. The price of […]
The first newspaper in South Africa edited by a woman is a sports daily, writes David Shapshak Sports writers like statistics. Any game has some “first time since …” statistic that can be worked into a story. This week Bronwyn Wilkinson entered the record books three times. The 32-year-old became the first woman editor, and […]