David le Page So you’re driving down the information highway (no “super” – it’s Telkom). You’re on your way to a website in Durban, and you decide to pull in to Harrismith to check your e-mail. There, of course, your Cyberhost is cheap, friendly and accommodating – just like the Wimpy. Well, Internet start-up company […]
FORMER Azanian People’s Liberation Army members will assemble in Umtata on March 20 for their final parade, in line with a decision taken late last year that they should formally disband. Although Apla was part of the integration of the non-statutory and statutory forces into the South African National Defence Force, it has never officially […]
This is International Women’s Week and even if I wanted to, I could not prevent myself from thinking about womanhood. What is a man to make of women these days? Since the feminists took over, it has become extremely difficult for my gender to interact with females. Once, in a newspaper office, I casually smiled […]
FOUR people were arrested on Thursday in Cape Town township Nyanga following a shootout between political rivals hours before a non-denominational church service designed to calm tension in the area, police said.Police spokesman Captain Mark Romburg said the shootout occurred in KTC, a shanty-town in the heart of Nyanga, where five political organisers have been […]
Ferial Haffajee The government has appointed a failed executive implicated in graft to head its state-of-the-art broadcasting school. Solly Kotane, a former African National Congress propagandist, was appointed in February despite his failures at Bop-TV and the South African Communications Service (Sacs). While at Sacs, he was called to Parliament to explain why a company […]
EGYPTIAN actress Yusra has been acquitted of outraging public morals over a risque photograph published on the cover of a cinema magazine four years ago, court officials said on Friday.Yusra was convicted after two Islamist lawyers complained that she appeared “nearly nude” in the November 1995 cover photograph of Al-Cinema wal-Nass.Defence lawyers argued that the […]
One of South Africa’s most under-resourced hospitals has been named as the research base of a new Aids drug. David Shapshak, Evidence wa ka Ngobeni and Aaron Nicodemus report Ga-Rankuwa is an unlikely place for an Aids breakthrough. The dusty, dishevelled hospital outside Pretoria has been almost abandoned by the health system, leaving it critically […]
selection With the Western Stormers announcing a B team for their match down under this weekend, Andy Capostagno ponders how other sides will react Western Stormers coach Alan Solomons seems to be reinventing the traditional rules of the game on an almost daily basis. Last year, for instance, Solomons stopped releasing teams to the press […]
upright people’ With its biennial film festival the little country of Burkina Faso plays a big role in African film-making. John Matshikiza found the `reel’ heart of Africa in Ouagadougou Give a dog a bad name and he’ll be a bad dog. Give a dog a good name, and he might just turn into a […]
It’s a blazingly hot day in Nylstroom. The blue northern sky glares relentlessly overhead. Outside the town hall a powdered tannie comes up and, pointing to the Independent Electoral Commission (IEC) banner, asks if this is … She hesitates. Yes, it’s Evita’s election roadshow. And it’s free? Yes. She grips her silent husband’s elbow and, […]