Bob Mattes:A SECOND LOOK Results released by the Opinion ’99 consortium last week indicate that large numbers of voters have, at best, a foggy awareness of their elected leaders. President Nelson Mandela and Deputy President Thabo Mbeki are widely known and well-liked. Most people know about most of the major party leaders (but not all), […]
Karlin Lillington It’s about the stupidest site you’ll look at all week, but the URL has been flying across the Web as everyone mails it to friends: it’s the dancing hamsters at . If it doesn’t make you laugh, then you’re clearly the kind of person who enjoys reading Windows programming manuals. We’ve all prayed […]
IFP militants have been accused of plotting to derail the KwaZulu-Natal peace process in order to secure the province in the upcoming election, writes Wally Mbhele The African National Congress and the Inkatha Freedom Party are planning an urgent meeting to salvage the peace process in the KwaZulu- Natal which has faltered since the appointment […]
Andrew Muchineripi Soccer The analysis of a soccer match usually centres around the skill, strength and speed of the footballers and the tactics of the coach. Luck is a word rarely mentioned. Yet luck often plays a significant role and the African Nations Cup qualifying tie between South Africa and Gabon at Odi Stadium last […]
David Larsen The last undeveloped estuary on South Africa’s east coast could be ruined by a multi-million dollar hotel development, says the National Environmental Action Group. Durban-based developer Crane Africa, in partnership with Singapore-based Aman Resort Group, has proposed a 100-bed hotel on the dune above the Kosi Bay mouth. “The mouth is rated foremost […]
Piers Pigou When Sicelo Dlomo’s body was found with a single shot to the head on the outskirts of Soweto in January 1988, many assumed the police had had a hand in the execution. Dlomo had become a thorn in the flesh of the security forces and had stayed away from home for several months […]
gets the monkey off his back Neil Manthorp in Auckland Cricket The heaviest burden in sport is the weight of expectation, and the heaviest burden of all is the one you place on yourself. Sons of great sportsmen are understood to suffer in the shadow of their fathers, but the truth is different. They place […]
dark’ Thokozani Mtshali Born in South Africa, Ayanda Moatshe (19) has lived all her life in the country. She holds a valid identity document, speaks four African languages and English, studies engineering at Wits Technikon, and plays on the national softball team. Her mother works at the Johannesburg Stock Exchange. But Moatshe has been picked […]
Matthew Krouse Down the tube The term makwerekwere has seeped into our diction over recent years, becoming descriptive of a range of foreign Africans that, as the lie has it, are easily identifiable. Stereotyped in popular culture as drug dealers, unwelcome street traders and corrupt businessmen, the foreigner is emerging as a stock symbol of […]
UGANDAN troops have killed 10 more Rwandan Hutu extremists suspected of having taken part in the massacre of eight foreign tourists in Uganda, a military source said on Friday. The Hutus, members of the Interahamwe youth militia held partly responsible for Rwanda’s 1994 genocide, were killed 15km across the border inside the Democratic Republic of […]