Michael Metelits The bad news is that your bank could hit a spot of trouble, run low on cash, find itself with too many people in line to draw funds, and collapse, leaving you with high blood pressure and a chequebook best used for gift-wrapping or reminder notes. Worse news would be that your bank […]
The introduction of six bull elephants seems to have sorted out the `aberrant behaviour’ of the young males in Pilanesberg, writes Barbara Ludman It was the sort of scene certain to delight visitors lucky enough to come upon it: a young bull elephant and two much younger males browsing peacefully together in the sparse bushveld, […]
THE “Rose of Soweto”, former world boxing champion Dingaan Thobela, has narrowly escaped a ban after weighing in seven kilograms overweight for his welterweight bout against Argentina’s Adrian Daneff last Saturday. The bout was reduced from a title fight to an international contest and Thobela forfeited half his purse to his opponent. That penalty led […]
Matthew Krouse Down the tube `No politicians behind desks and no talking heads,” promise the producers of Real Lives, e.tv’s new 13-part documentary series aired on Wednesdays at 9pm. The first two episodes, now shown, have indeed been free of laboured political invective and emotional commentary – proving what light relief a non-judgmental approach to […]
KALAHARI Express Airlines, grounded by a host of problems since being granted an operating licence in 1996, now appears set to take off. KEA, to be operated jointly by Air Namibia and South African Airways’ sister airline, South African Express, is expected to start daily flights between Windhoek, Johannesburg and Cape Town before July 1999. […]
GHANA, Morocco and Nigeria have applied to host the 2000 Nations Cup, the Confederation of African Football said on Friday. They will compete with original hosts Zimbabwe for the right to stage the 16-nation tournament from January 23 to February 13. The successful candidate will be named on Monday when CAF executives meet in Guinea. […]
South Africa needs more stringent legislation on genetically modified organisms, argue Mariam Mayet and Saliem Fakir Products which contain genetically modified organisms (GMOs) are slowly filtering into South Africa. If they’re not planted in maize fields, you can be pretty sure they are in your canned soybeans, milk powder and tomato sauce. In this country […]
`Le Vive? Le … something like that. Does it mean anything to you?” “Le Vive? La Veuve, perhaps? You say it has something to do with nuns?” “I think they’re nuns. They don’t speak English, so I wasn’t too sure what they were talking about.” The setting is Ouagadougou by night. We’re driving around in […]
Howard Barrell The African National Congress is pulling out all the stops to seize control of the government of the Western Cape from the New National Party in the election on June 2 – and it believes it has a good chance of succeeding. The ANC’s strategy depends on persuading upwards of six leading coloured […]
Andrew Worsdale Movie of the week `Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.” So said award-winning playwright Tom Stoppard who, together with Marc Norman, penned the faultless script for Shakespeare in Love. If they don’t get an Oscar nod for […]