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Alex Bellos, in Santos, reports on the joyous return of a modest footballing legend to his roots The world of football may have changed unrecognisably since the 1950s, but Pele still looks the same. His short Afro has hardly receded, keeping the unmistakable shape of when he was a young player. He is fit and […]

THE Swedish government has pledged R450-million to South Africa over the next three years in the form of a development co-operation agreement. Signed by Swedish Foreign Minister Anna Lindh and South Africa’s Deputy Foreign Affairs Minister Aziz Pahad in Cape Town on Friday, the agreement aims to fund education, housing, arts and culture and urban […]

Howard Barrell: OVER A BARREL Who would want to be President Nelson Mandela? Not me. And my reasons have nothing to do with spending nearly 30 years in prison. What would convince me I could do without international adulation and the Nobel Peace Prize would be the exasperation of having to placate, encourage and cajole […]

John Matshikiza:WITH THE LID OFF It’s late at night. I’m sitting at a bar in suburban Cape Town, minding my own business, when a bunch of formerly white men come bundling in, some with their wives. They are all badly dressed: grey shoes, flannel trousers, cheap leather jackets, white shirts and tacky ties. They are […]

Sechaba ka’Nkosi The African National Congress leadership meets this weekend to finalise the political future of candidates heading its election nomination list. With the party upbeat about the possibility of netting more than 60% of the vote in the general election, the crucial three-day meeting has drawn much interest because it has to decide who […]

THE South African Insurance Association (SAIA) is to conduct a comprehensive national investigation into the effectiveness of fire services following concerns expressed by the short-term insurance industry that fire services are becoming less efficient, contributing to the severity of fire losses. SAIA chief executive Barry Scott said: “SAIA has contacted the minister of constitutional affairs […]

Iden Wetherell President Robert Mugabe stepped up his offensive against Zimbabwe’s independent media this week with the arrest of more journalists amid clear signs that he is determined to punish anyone who criticises his army’s performance in the Democratic Republic of Congo or challenges his arthritic grip on power. Four journalists from the weekly Zimbabwe […]

You don’t have to be paranoid to buy a Pentium, but it helps, writes John Naughton If you thought Microsoft was an aggressively competitive company, then you’ve never heard of Intel, the outfit which makes the processor chips inside most of the world’s computers. Andy Grove, until recently Intel’s head honcho, was famous for his […]

steel Ben Turok In 1958 when Marius Schoon applied for membership of the Congress of Democrats (COD), the Congress Alliance (as the African National Congress-led movement was then known) was actively fighting to defend its policy of non-racialism against those who wanted to establish the Pan Africanist Congress as a basically anti-white organisation. The ANC […]