The hype and glory of the African Nations Cup created new enthusiasm for soccer in South Africa. Now it has to be harnessed for the good of the local game SOCCER: Mark Gleeson IT is amazing how quickly the poor crowd attendance, erratic shooting and errant referees were forgotten in the euphoria of South Africas […]

Business believes it has the answer to marketing tourism in South Africa, reports Karen Harverson South Africa is the fastest-growing tourist destination in the world but this is due more to its flavour of the month status initiated by the 1994 elections than its marketing activities overseas. With a shoe-string budget of R48-million for 1996 […]

Justin Pearce AN easy way to kill 80 000 people muttered the man at the Africa Cup of Nations final as the Boeing 747 swooped over to ruffle the hair of the crowd. Laurie Kay, the man who was in the cockpit, disagrees: In Hong Kong people wouldn’t turn their heads at something like that, […]

CARNAGE in the streets of the Sri Lankan capital, Colombo, where more than 80 people were killed and about 1 300 injured last week by suspected Tamil suicide bombers, is a terrible reminder of the human cost of civil war and of the limits of force in solving chronic ethnic conflicts. The violence shows no […]

Government is committed to reducing the national debt, but South Africa must not expect overnight miracles, reports Madeleine Wackernagel Chris Liebenberg, the Minister of Finance, has primed the markets for an overrun on the budget deficit to about 6% of gross domestic product (GDP) this year. Longer term, his aim is to trim it by […]

Gaye Davis It’s going to be the highest profile job in South Africa. And ideally the person who gets it should be black. An interviewing panel of Cape-based commissioners has drawn up a short-list of potential candidates for chief executive officer of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, but wants the net cast wider, which may […]

Visiting Johannesburg this week, renowned composer Kevin Volans spoke to GWEN ANSELL about music past and present, African and European SERIOUS music in the late 20th century is an esoteric and fragmented world in which performers and composers find survival a struggle. Audiences tend to be rigid adherents of one school or another, and fairly […]

Gaye Davis PUBLIC protector Selby Baqwa has a favourite story he tells to illustrate how his office can help the average individual. Mrs X approached us about difficulties she was having in getting the pension due to her after her husband’s death last year. He worked for the Venda government, which no longer existed. She […]

TENNIS: Jon Swift THE Davis Cup presents a very different face from the dour business of collecting ATP points. It showed in the seamless polite conversation at this weeks draw where glasses clinked during the announcements and gloved waiters passed around trays of genteel canapes druing question time. You have to believe that this difference […]

Roelf Meyer, newly appointed secretary general of the NP, in The Mark Gevisser Profile DRIVING to Pretoria to meet the New Face of the National Party on Monday morning, I heard FW de Klerk giving an interview about his party’s new direction on SAfm’s AM Live show. He affably said how happy he was to […]