OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Monday 9.30pm. REPRESENTATIVES of Lesotho’s opposition parties were locked in discussions in Maseru on Monday night in an attempt to find a suitable venue for a meeting with the Lesotho government on the political crisis in the country. Opposition part coalition spokesman Vincent Malebo said that he hopes the parties will […]

CHRISTIAN FIGENSCHOU, Johannesburg | Sunday 8.30pm. ROBERT McBRIDE will brief the Cabinet and African National Congress leadership about what he was doing when he was arrested in Mozambique in March, according to ANC legal chief Mathews Phosa. Phosa said on Saturday that the Cabinet has assigned Safety and Security Minister Sydney Mufamadi to deal with […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Friday 8.30pm. THE three year talks between the European Union and South Africa over a sweeping free trade agreement fell through on Friday over the issue of concessions for agricultural products. The failure comes just days after both sides expressed hope that the three years of tough talks would be wrapped […]

Food : Matthew Krouse Alighting from one’s car and approaching the Wangthai Restaurant, in Pretoria’s genteel nook of Brooklyn, one is greeted by the strangest apparition. A bevy of blonde waitresses, in flowing saris, bowing in infinite submission. It’s the start of a fabulous romance – the love we feel for our stomachs. Wangthai is […]

Jim McClellan There has been no shortage of books about computers over the past few years. Politicians, academics and journalists have all spun out utopian or dystopian techno- visions. But programmers – the people responsible for making this technology work – haven’t produced any grand globe-spanning theories about the heaven or hell on Earth they […]

Jerome Burne Dreams are fascinating: they are personal, intimate and totally inaccessible to anyone else. And yet they are bizarre, mysterious and seemingly nothing to do with the dreamer. We still don’t understand why we dream, but new findings, presented to the recent Conference on the Scientific Study of Consciousness at Tucson, Arizona, have been […]

Donna Block : Share World Two nations united by history but divided by destiny, India and Pakistan are like estranged sisters fighting over the same man. They have fought three wars, two of them over the disputed region of Kashmir, and have displayed their nuclear capabilities. This long-running feud is affecting the stability and economic […]

Alex Sudheim : On show in Durban The residents of Emalendeni hostels are always hungry. The 90 physically-disabled children and youths living in the low, bleak buildings on the outskirts of Durban’s Umlazi township no longer receive food aid from the government, and survive on the 10 loaves of bread a day donated by a […]

SDIs are aimed specifically at boosting employment and black empowerment, but, asks Hein Marais, will they have the necessary finances? Right now the multi-billion rand Mozal smelter is just two holes in the ground – 3m deep, a kilometre apart, several football pitches wide – gouged out of a patch of pasture in Matola, outside […]

Belinda Beresford Careless use of your credit card could mean you are making your bank an interest-free loan. If you fail to pay your total credit card debt each month, your bank may charge you for the full outstanding amount – even if you have made a partial payment. Say your statement says you have […]