Michael Finch : Athletics If the double “MJ” show doesn’t pack out the Ruimsig stadium in Roodepoort tonight, then Athletics South Africa (ASA) is faced with a crisis. Just the mere presence of the fastest man and fastest woman on earth, Michael Johnson and Marion Jones, in the second of the three-leg Engen Grand Prix […]
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. […]
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. […]
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 […]
Lauren Shantall It’s a blustery Friday evening in Cape Town and I’m still waiting to catch one of the city’s signature Golden Arrow buses. When it finally careers round the corner of Bree Street, its rambunctious horde of singing, laughing passengers yell the driver to a stop. Our public transport system is in chaos – […]
THE former Rwandan army major freed by a United Nations court on charges of murdering 10 Belgian peacekeepers during Rwanda’s 1994 genocide remained in custody on Friday as Belgium and Rwanda sought his re-arrest. The UN tribunal freed Bernard Ntuyahaga on Thursday when the prosecution dropped charges against him but Belgium wants him for trial […]
NIGERIAN journalist Declan Okpalaeke was named the CNN African Journalist of the Year at an award ceremony at Johannesburg’s Civic Theatre on Thursday night. Okpalaeke won the prize for an article on male infertility and a traditional alternative to Viagra, known as Ogbolo. Okpalaeke, a reporter for Nigeria’s The Guardian newspaper, said it is vital […]
A BROOKLYN, Pretoria policeman and a Ugandan doctor were arrested on Thursday night in connection with the smuggling of two elephant tusks. The endangered species protection unit said Inspector Malose Malakomme (32) and Ugandan doctor Oli Kawesi (35) will appear in the Pretoria Regional Court on May 31.
A newspaper report that half of the low- cost houses already built by order of the government are substandard seems to have been inaccurate. Charlene Smith reports Every three minutes and 10 seconds a new Reconstruction and Development Programme (RDP)house is erected in Gauteng – and the government has enacted tough legislation to ensure that […]
Review of : the week Nicholas Dawes Southern Born is Myer Taub’s first play, and it has the considerable advantages of a strong cast and an experienced director in Mark Graham. Given the parlous condition of serious theatre in the Western Cape, one approaches it with every hope that the script will be strong enough […]