Sechaba ka’Nkosi South African Broadcast Corporation (SABC) television news editor-in-chief designate Phillip Molefe describes his whole life as a strange coincidence prescribed by fate: he was born in Sharpeville exactly two years before the famous massacre in 1960 when police killed more than 69 anti-pass law protesters in the sprawling Vaal Triangle township. He started […]
MONSTER MACHINES by Caroline Bingham (Dorling Kindersley) This book describes 12 different types of the “biggest, heaviest, chunkiest machines on the move”. These include a Boeing 747, a giant mining shovel with a mass of 240 tonnes and an enormous mobile crane with 18 wheels. The text is very simple and quite devoid of technical […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Dakar | Friday 11.00am. SOUTH African hammer thrower Chris Harmse, who is the African record holder in the event, won the gold medal at the African Athletics Championships in Dakar, Senegal ,with a throw of 72,11m on Thursday night. Nigerian competitors dominated on Thursday, with Clement Chukwu and Falilat Ogunkoya doing a double […]
Use investment as a tool to manage your money instead of letting it manage you, writes Donna Block The market is cruel. It gives with no joy and takes with no mercy. If anyone’s forgotten this, the events of the past few weeks should serve as a reminder. Stock markets have been tumbling worldwide and […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Friday 6.00PM. ZIMBABWE has increased the number of its troops backing the Democratic Republic of Congo army against rebels from 600 to 2800 in the past few days, which have seen an escalation in fighting, the Zimbabwe Independent reported on Friday. “Initially, we had underestimated the number of foreign troops in […]
The government’s economic policy will not be debated at the forthcoming jobs summit, writes Howard Barrell The government has beaten off the threat of a direct public challenge to its economic policy at the presidential jobs summit now due to take place before the end of October. This is another setback for embattled leftwingers in […]
Springboks Andy Capostagno Rugby It is tempting to say what a difference a year makes, but undoubtedly there are a few pedants out there who will point out that when South Africa meet Australia in Saturday’s Tri-Nations decider at Ellis Park, it will actually be only 364 days since the two last met in a […]
Angella Johnson VIEW FROM A BROAD It was a bitterly cold night. The kind where a chill seeps into the marrow of your bones and you think your body will never be warm again. Sitting in his car, Tiny Nortje let out a lengthy sigh; he had forgotten to wear a jumper for his vigil. […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Pietermaritzburg | Thursday 7.00PM. THOUSANDS of African National Congress members in KwaZulu-Natal have marched to the offices of the KwaZulu-Natal Attorney General Tim McNally to demand his resignation. Members of the SA Communist Party and Congress of South African Trade Unions also joined the march. The protesters handed a memorandum to the Deputy […]
The April 30 to May 7 edition of the Mail & Guardian carried a report headlined `NP leader in bizarre sex probe’. The National Party laid a complaint with the Press Ombudsman, Ed Linington, who decided on the matter last week. This was his decision: It is understandable that the National Party and its leader […]