Andrew Muchineripi Soccer The festive-season feasting on turkey, ham and plum pudding surely led to much moaning and groaning on the training grounds of Castle Premiership clubs this week as semi-fit players prepared for a resumption of hostilities. Mid-table Cape Town Spurs and tail- enders Dynamos kicked off the second half of the 1998/99 league […]
A REPORT into the August bombings of two United States embassies in East Africa has faulted several government agencies for failing to properly assess the security threat. The report, released by the US state department on Friday, found that the embassies in Nairobi and Dar es Salaam had not been provided with adequate security against […]
INTERNATIONAL credit rating agency, Moody’s Investor Services, has reconfirmed South Africa’s investment grade status and upgraded the outlook for the rating from negative to stable, the finance department announced on Thursday. The department said that Moody’s had indicated it is concerned about the rate of economic growth and the low level of employment creation but […]
poison CD of the week: Shaun de Waal One of the strangest and most interesting CDs of South African origin you are likely to hear this year -or any other – is dURBAN NOISE and scraps WORKS. On it, University of Natal composer Jurgen Bruninger, draws together 47 Durban players and any number of found […]
THE South African Broadcasting Corporation was served a second subpoena on Thursday in an attempt to force it to hand over to investigators video footage of the lynching in August 1996 of Hard Living gang co-leader Rashaad Staggie. Staggie was shot and burned to death by a vigilante mob in Cape Town in the first […]
Linda Chisholm:A SECOND LOOK If the matric exam did not exist, South Africans would have to invent it. As one of our major social institutions, the matric exam results each year signal whether we are succeeding or failing as a nation. This year’s results were no different. Whether they are a major or a minor […]
Thokozani Mtshali Arrive Alive’s billboard campaign to reduce deaths on South Africa’s roads this holiday season has been greeted with scepticism by many motorists. The campaign was launched 14 months ago in conjunction with traffic departments, the Ministry of Transport and the South African Police Service (SAPS) in a bid to reduce road fatalities. But […]
Kasia Boddy BIRDS OF AMERICA by Lorrie Moore (Faber &Faber) Like the birds they observe living “punishing, unblessed lives, winging it north, south, here, there”, Lorrie Moore’s characters are constantly searching “for a place of rest”. In one story a mother and daughter tour Ireland, searching for both “the past of America” and their lost […]
Stephen Gray THE JOURNAL OF GUSTAF DE VYLDER (Van Riebeeck Society) The latest (1998) volume in the Second Series of the Van Riebeeck Society’s noble list of publications has, in fact, been available to specialists from the National Archives of Namibia since 1992. But now, for a wider general readership, here is The Journal of […]
FORMER Lesotho prime minister Ntsu Mokhehle died on Wednesday night at a hospital in Bloemfontein, Lesotho government officials confirmed on Thursday. The 80-year-old former head of state fell ill during celebrations to mark his birthday on December 26 and was rushed to hospital in Bloemfontein, where he remained until he died. Mokhehle was treated for […]