Alan HenryMotor racing Ferrari are poised to offer Michael Schumacher a virtual blank cheque to prevent him defecting to the McLaren-Mercedes team in 1999, a year before the end of his contract. Fiat’s president Gianni Agnelli is said to have sanctioned a o52-million package to ensure Schumacher stays at Ferrari to the end of the […]
Andy CapostagnoCricket If this is the beginning of a new age, then it’s particularly appropriate that South Africa will go into the Newlands Test against opponents who are, in the best sense of the word, old fashioned. Sri Lanka may be the world champions in one-day cricket, b ut their approach to Test cricket, if […]
Hackers use a great variety of techniques to break into private computer systems. John Graham-Cumming reports In a frenzy of announcements over the past few weeks, Nasa, the Pentagon, the United States Navy and a number of universities revealed that their computers were under cyber-attack. Many of the attacks relied on tried and tested hacking […]
Pallo Jordan: CROSSFIRE ‘Twilight,” my friend Karl-Heinz explained, “is the quintessential dialectical concept. It is the transition from light to darkness, from day to night. It tells us also that both day and night are but moments in a continuing cycle during which each day i s transformed into its opposite by the passage of […]
Chris Gordon and Ann Eveleth Zambia sent 500 troops to its border with Angola on Monday following persistent allegations that arms to Unita are being ferried across it. After months of denial that the border was porous, the Zambian government this week finally agreed to take action. The agreement, announced by Zambian foreign minister Keli […]
Charlene Smith Time was when the weekend sun burned freckles on the backs and faces of a myriad of flea market shoppers and sellers; when shoppers would endure being jostled by thousands of others; when Zulu dancers or ageing jazz buskers would compete for coins; and W est African museums would be looted for African […]
Adam HauptOn stage in Cape Town The nightlife in central Cape Town is vibrant, and a casual observer watching the cars cruising and the dudes boozing might easily think that the multicultural beast that is South Africa is perfectly represented here. But this is a misapprehension. The m ore pretentious forms of cultural expression still […]
Tracy MurinikOn show in Cape Town Like a leaf skeleton, or a scrutinised microdot, or a highly convoluted mapping of space, Paul Edmunds’s assemblages inveigle themselves along the foundations of the Mark Coetzee Fine Art Cabinet in an installation entitled Once, Again. Hundreds of small plastic cable ties and bottle tops, all meticulously joined and […]
I find myself sitting next to Mike Atherton as the England cricket team crowds on to a small plane leaving Guyana for the next Test in Barbados. He is reading the memoirs of Pablo Neruda, the Nobel Prize-winning poet from Chile. Atherton is also impressively familiar with Guyanese literature and mentions the recent death of […]
fallout from Vryburg Bongani Siqoko The ongoing racial clashes at Vryburg High School in North West province have put a strain on many Afrikaans schools around the country – some of them battling to overcome the perception that they are all racist. The principal of Elandspoort High School in Pretoria, Sarel du Toit, said Afrikaans […]