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 […]
won’t bore He’s a man of contradictions – style and good manners coexisting with arrogance and a talent to annoy. He’s romantically attached to the land of his birth, yet remains one of its fiercest critics. Roy Hattersley on the Unquiet American Gore Vidal is the most elegant, erudite and eclectic writer of his generation […]
Howard Barrell Unita rebels have taken delivery of new weapons which enable them to attack Angola’s offshore oil rigs and bombard the nation’s capital, Luanda, according to unconfirmed intelligence reports. The rebels now have three Russian-built MI 25 Hind helicopters, with another seven on delivery. They have also recently obtained more than 20 Russian-built unguided […]
Philip Nel : A SECOND LOOK I hope I am not the only Afrikaans speaker who feels uncomfortable with being made the focus of a special debate in Parliament. Although I can understand the political reasons why political parties would like to have such a debate in the run-up to the elections, I do not […]
Wally Mbhele and Ferial Haffajee Jay Naidoo’s future as Minister of Posts, Telecommunications and Broadcasting hangs in the balance as tensions with his department’s officials have reached the deputy president’s office. With elections looming, the jockeying for Cabinet posts has begun and Naidoo could be an early casualty. There is a persistent rumour that Free […]
Howard Barrell : OVER A BARREL Why believe economists or economic explanations? For economics takes creativity, greed, mood swings and fortune- telling, and pretends to combine them into a science. If, in this world, some things do indeed cause other things to happen, it is unusually difficult to say in the case of economics what […]
THE European Union on Friday hailed an agreement by central African heads of state on the conservation and management of the region’s tropical forests. The heads of state of Cameroon, the Central African Republic, Equatorial Guinea and Chad, along with the vice-president of Gabon and Congo’s environment minister on Wednesday signed the Yaounde Declaration agreeing […]
Andrew Muchineripi laments the fact that you can’t watch soccer in a cosy stadium It is a sad reflection on the people who inhabit our beautiful land that a soccer club cannot host a Bob Save Super Bowl match because the risk of crowd disturbance is too high. SuperSport United were drawn to play Orlando […]
Be thorough when checking up on anyone who’s telling you where to invest your money, warns Donna Block When it comes to choosing someone to help you make head or tail of your investments there is one guiding principle: caveat emptor – buyer beware. No matter how smooth or sophisticated that person may be, the […]
unbearable Thokozane Mtshali Last Saturday Sylvia Dlomo-Jele died of a broken heart, her friends say. She had believed her activist son, Sicelo Dlomo, was killed by the police and for 10 years she campaigned for justice. Three weeks ago, she watched the killers testifying before the Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s amnesty committee. But they were […]