PFIZER, the manufacturers of anti-impotence drug Viagra, said on Friday morning that the long-awaited release of the wonder drug has been delayed until next week. Cape Talk radio said that Pfizer cited logistical problems as the reason for the delay. The little blue pill was due to hit the shelves of pharmacies on Friday, retailing […]
THE small Drakensberg town of Underberg will host a battle royale for the vacant KZN K1 River canoeing title this weekend. With defending champion Wayne Volek sitting out on a doping suspension, scores of the country’s top paddlers will tussle on the upper Umzimkulu River in the two-day Strops Drakensberg Challenge. Contenders for the K1 […]
Coenraad Visser Never before have classical music lovers in Gauteng been offered a feast like they have this week. On Sunday, tenor sensation Johan Botha returned home for his first appearance on a professional stage since he left for Europe 10 years ago. And on Monday, the Orchestre National de France, with musical director Charles […]
After initially neglecting the Internet, South Africa’s traditional media houses are now investing heavily in the next wave of media: online newspapers. Most major newspaper groups for the past two years have maintained a virtual presence on the World Wide Web, usually postings of their print stories and searchable archives of previous editions. But late […]
The battlefield of the real banking war has shifted to the corridors of Parliament. Howard Barrell reports The major banks, stung by perceptions that they don’t care about customers and charge as much as they can get away with for their services, begin hawking a new draft banking code of conduct around consumer groups this […]
THREE of Russia’s best pole vaulters will be in South Africa to test Okkert Brits during the Engen Grand Prix Summer Series. Vadim Strogolev, Yevgeny Smiryagin and Pavel Burlatsenko have confirmed their participation in Pietersburg on March 13, Roodepoort on March 19 and in Cape Town on March 26. Joining them will be woman highjumper […]
John Matshikiza:WITH THE LID OFF I’m summoned to appear in the magistrate’s court at 8.30am. It’s a simple matter. My car was broken into, the culprits were caught a few minutes later with my property still hot in their hands, and the case has finally come before a magistrate. I am obliged to testify. The […]
Ted Leggett After years of withdrawing from the sex lives of South Africans, the government is considering poking its nose into the bedroom again. The Law Commission is presently circulating a discussion paper on the “need for a statutory offence aimed at harmful HIV-related behaviour”, or rather, the need for criminalising the spread of the […]
Elizabeth Wurtzel:BODY LANGUAGE In 19th-century France, the art academies considered it less than respectable to have students paint posed nudes. So, lest all the fun be quashed, the budding artistes made paintings of other people painting naked models. Now Esquire’s at it, too. How else to explain its February issue’s devotion to the topic of […]
Peter Vale: A SECOND LOOK The brave testimony of Dr Bridget O’Laughlin before the Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s amnesty committee provides a moment to pause and take a second look at the influential intellectual work of her friend and colleague, Ruth First, who was assassinated by an apartheid letter bomb in August, 1982. It also […]