THURSDAY, 6.20PM: SOUTH AFRICA ended Sri Lanka’s nine-match unbeaten record today, winning by 66 runs. But the Wills series final still lies ahead on Saturday, when the Sri Lankans, who were without three key players in this game, will make sure to avenge themselves. Hero of the match was Lance Klusener, who scored a fast […]

Luke Harding in Durban There was a certain wry symbolism as Prince Harry watched his father greet the crowds from the 12th-floor balcony of the Royal Hotel in Durban. As Charles shook hands in the civic square with British expatriates, Harry waved at his dad. Charles waved back at the diminutive red-haired figure above him. […]

for the human genome What links Elvis Presley, Marilyn Monroe and Abraham Lincoln? Well, a US company wants to sell their DNA. Mark Honigsbaum reports Earlier this year StarGene, a San Francisco- based biotechnology company, hit on a novel marketing idea. Using the latest DNA cloning techniques it would duplicate samples of DNA taken from […]

Marion Edmunds The Department of Defence wants to cut the army’s crucial crime-fighting activities, claiming its thinning resources should be concentrated on reshaping the defence force. Officials say the military cannot sustain its support for the police – which costs it around R1,2-billion a year – and its funds should be spent instead on strengthening […]

Rowley Leigh : Moveable feast Although I first ate and enjoyed polenta at a dinner party many years ago, I never got around to cooking it myself until the current vogue first started in the early Nineties. But the stuff I came up with in the kitchen was hardly the stuff of dreams, and came […]

FRIDAY 10.30AM: The South African Chamber of Business (Sacob) says South Africa’s growth, employment and redistribution (Gear) economic strategy is protecting the country’s economy from the harsh international evaluations other emerging economies are suffering. Releasing Sacob’s business confidence index on Thursday for October — which remained unchanged from the previous month — economic policy director […]

THURSDAY, 9.00PM: THE National Assembly has approved the controversial employment Bill after almost a year of controversy, by 228 votes to 78. Inkatha and the Pan Africanist Congress joined the ANC in supporting the bill, opposed by the other parties. Cosatu has raised objections that its 49 proposed amendments to the bill, agreed to with […]

Egyptian director Youssef Chahine recently won nine out of the 14 categories in the M- Net All-Africa Film Awards with his film Destiny. He spoke to Janet Smith A journalist could gush like a desert oil well after meeting Egyptian film director Youssef Chahine. He’s charming enough to persuade a glass of wine to replace […]

Barney Spender : Rugby Crossing the road in Bologna can be a difficult and dangerous business. The drivers of the cars and buses at least have the decency to lean on their horns before flying past; the ubiquitous Lambrettas, on the other hand, do not. They come from nowhere and are gone before the dawdling […]

Glynis O’Hara Tom Hark is one of those South African classic songs that simply won’t lie down and go away. Recorded by Elias and His Zig Zag Jive Flutes in the 1950s, it became a huge hit. It was played by big bands well into the 1960s; used as a theme song for a British […]