Andrew Spencer : Golf There is something very special about the Nedbank Million Dollar Challenge at Sun City. Perhaps it is the size of the seven- figure purse – in American money nogal – or the simple fact that this is an elite field on an elite layout carved out of a slice of unremitting […]

Intel maintains its dominance of the microchip market by suing companies that compete with it. Tim Jackson tells the story of one of these battles In the mid-1980s, George Hwang decided to start a new business combining his own expertise in process technology and manufacturing with the talents of Bob Woo, a friend with an […]

Dawood Dithato Deputy Minister of Safety and Security Joe Matthews will not be prosecuted on 12-year- old charges that he embezzled his clients’ money while practising as an attorney in Botswana in the 1980s. The office of the attorney general in Botswana is abandoning its long pursuit of Matthews after the deputy minister reportedly repaid […]

FRIDAY, 2.20PM: SOUTH AFRICA’S last wickets fell quickly on Friday afternoon, taking the team to 468 all out, with Pat Symcox reaching 54. Western Australia have started off strongly, with 117 for 1 wicket at close of play on the second day. FRIDAY, 9.35AM: South Africa cruised to 440/7 at lunch on the second day […]

contempt Tim Jackson Gradually, the view took shape at Intel in the mid-1980s that the guys at Microsoft simply didn’t care that their programmes ran very slowly on Intel processors. Intel set up a team of three or four people inside the group developing its 386 microprocessor, and gave them the job of making sure […]

Elizabeth G Olson The World Wide Web site of a group called the Charlemagne Hammerskins opens with an image of an armed, masked man beside a swastika. A click on a button below labelled “Access for sub-humans” yields a picture of an apparent concentration camp, captioned: “Be assured, we still have many one-way tickets for […]

Mail & Guardian reporters The death of former Malawian president Kamuzu Banda invites the following question: who was he really? President Nelson Mandela seemed in two minds this week. Asked for thoughts on the departed despot, he acknowledged that Banda did not “have a very good reputation” because of his support of the old apartheid […]

rats from torture Alternative methods of drug testing could save animals from experimentation. Danny Penman reports Two weeks ago at an Aids meeting in Johannesburg, watchers were so horrified by film of animal tests of a new herbal immune system booster that they demanded the screening be halted. But European Commission scientists in Italy have […]

Charl Blignaut The year-long saga around the alleged financial mismanagement involving the board of the Performing Arts Council of the Transvaal (Pact) has continued to spiral. The Mail & Guardian has learned that the board is currently under investigation by the Public Protector. Also under investigation is Pact’s subsidiary Johannesburg theatre, the Windybrow Centre for […]

Drum magazine agony aunt and executive editor, Liz Khumalo, aka Sis Dolly, in the 15-minute interview. By Charl Blignaut Charl Blignaut: You don’t know how long I’ve wanted to interview you for. I read Dear Dolly every single week. Liz Khumalo: Oh, that’s so good to hear. CB: For how long have you been Sis […]