THE corpses of dozens of Zimbabwean troops lay strewn on Thursday around the small village of Eshimba in central Democratic Republic of Congo’s Eastern Kasai province. Our correspondent saw bloated and disfigured corpses clothed in uniforms of the Zimbabwean army, which backs DRC President Laurent Kabila against rebels bent on ousting him. Most appeared to […]
Ted Leggett The Gauteng police media liaison officers recently released a statement of support for a directive issued by National Commissioner George Fivaz earlier this year. This directive admonishes police officers to “refrain from making unauthorised and unguarded statements to the media”, and to direct press inquiries to media liaison. This kind of policy, Fivaz […]
THE DAVID GLEASON COLUMN Believe me when I tell you that, for small businesspeople, the thing that counts most is the interest rate. I wrote about this last week, but it is such an important matter it needs to be addressed again. Interest rates determine how consumers behave; they set the pattern of spending. If […]
Sixty years ago this week, Walter Hammond’s Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) side in South Africa disembarked from the Durban night train at Cape Town and made haste to the waiting ship, Athlone Castle, for the voyage home. The day before, March 14, the Timeless Test, unparalleled in cricket history, had been abandoned as a draw […]
Karlin Lillington Here’s one for the “but enough about you; let’s talk about me” department. At the All About You website () you can take a personality test designed by a Berkeley PhD student and submit it for instant analysis of your key characteristics. You also get a percentile rating for where your quirks and […]
THE descendants of Saartjie Baartman, the Khoikhoi woman known as the Hottentot Venus, have given a French museum until July to return her remains to South Africa, SABC TV news reported. Baartman was displayed as a freak in Europe at the turn of the century until she died in Paris at the age of 25. […]
Deon Potgieter : Boxing WBA , WBC, IBF, WBO, WBU, IBA, WBF and so forth. Looking at all the different world title sanctioning bodies, things are getting pretty confusing for fight fans. Terry Pettifer, Golden Gloves publicist, coined the phrase: “It’s the alphabet soup of world boxing” and indeed that’s what it seems to be. […]
Ian Clayton South Africa’s poorest provinces have the most civil servants, it was revealed in Parliament this week. There are more civil servants in the Northern Province – 119 465 – than there are in Gauteng – 112 851 – although Gauteng has 2,4-million more residents. The Northern Province has 25 civil servants for every […]
Sharon Hammond The Kruger National Park’s new management plan has been approved, paving the way for four-wheel drive routes and a reintroduction of elephant culling. General manager for conservation development Dr Leo Braack says that the new plan took three years to devise and had the approval of many conservationists, including groups traditionally opposed to […]
Matthew Krouse : Down the tube You don’t have to be as deep as Mike Lipkin to know that people spend a lot of their weekends in bed, in front of the television – particularly the early mornings, when those with kids probably get the worst end of a cute, co-parenting romp. If you have […]