South African photography has reframed itself in the Nineties, writes Charl Blignaut Had you taken a stroll through Johannesburg’s art galleries five years ago you would most likely have come across precious few shows devoted to photography. And those that were would almost certainly have comprised the kind of slick, dangerous, Pulitzer Prize-winning news photographs […]

Chris McGreal The United Nations has accused the new government of the Democratic Republic of Congo (former Zaire) of showing little more respect for human rights and democratisation than Mobutu Sese Seko’s dictatorship. A report was released as UN investigators returned to Kinshasa to probe massacres of Rwandan Hutu refugees in the east of the […]

Andrew Muchineripi Soccer The Rothmans Cup temperature could reach boiling point in more ways than one when Sundowns host Orlando Pirates at Odi Stadium on Sunday in the second leg of a semi-final showdown. It reached 40 degrees north of Pretoria last weekend when Sundowns struck five goals past Santos, a club so used to […]

From Collins Dictionaries: 1896 Radioactivity 1897 Aspirin 1898 Krypton 1899 gamine 1900 Labour Party 1901 Fingerprint 1902 Teddy bear 1903 Tarmac 1904 Fifa 1905 Sinn Fein 1906 Suffragette 1907 Allergy 1908 Borstal 1909 Jazz 1910 Girl Guide 1911 Air raid 1912 Schizophrenia 1913 Isotope 1914 Vorticism 1915 tank 1916 Dada 1917 Cheka 1918 Bolshie/Bolshy 1919 […]

A dictionary says it has found a new word to represent each of the past 102 years. As if English were so limited. David Rowan and John Ezard report One of Western youth culture’s handiest, most lethal and (till recently) most universal devices of insult happens to be dropping out of the English language. The […]

Admitted to a clinic with a broken nose, Minas Michael left `a vegetable’. His parents, however, refused to give up hope. Angella Johnson reports A neglected basketball net hangs forlornly over the garage door of Minas Michael’s home. It was here that the teenager practised the shots which made him a Transvaal provincial player. Today […]

Bongani Siqoko Boxing Legendary champion Roberto Duran knows very well that if he is to get another crack at a world title, he has to win his fight on Saturday. Duran meets Englishman David Radford in a 10-round light-heavyweight non-title fight, in the Jumbo Cash & Carry “Amabutho Empi” boxing extravanganza at the Carousel on […]

FRIDAY, 5.00PM IT was a bad Friday for shares on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange, with the all share index dropping 139 points or 2,1% to finish the day on 6374. At one stage the market was down more than 3%. The industrial index slid 111 points to 7898, while the financial index plummeted 214 points […]

The Investors’ Conference into the Wild Coast Development unveiled R12-billion worth of new projects but critics argue only a chosen few will benefit, writes Craig Bishop `The Eastern Cape development train is in motion – don’t be left behind,” was the advice given by President Nelson Mandela to more than 500 delegates at last weekend’s […]

South Africa White South Africans may complain about the crime rate and the economy, but for African-Americans working here, this is a land of opportunity, writes Emeka Nwandiko `This is our last chance,” declares African-American James Prevost in his office in Sandton City. In a muffled southern drawl he intones: “If we don’t get our […]