Maureen Barnes Down the tube There is no crisis. That’s what Dr Khulu Mbatho from the Department of Home Affairs said to Chris Gibbons about our electoral . if you’ll pardon the expression . arrangements. Well it depends, of course, on your definition of crisis. Compared to the San Franscisco earthquake, the bubonic plague and […]

Angella Johnson: VIEW FROM A BROAD `Please let him touch your breast. They’re beautiful and he loves breasts,” pleaded the light-skinned black woman sitting on a sofa beside me and my partner. Her boyfriend, a bespectacled German engineer, was draped over the side idly plucking at my suspenders. In a room down the hallway of […]

Chiara Carter The University of Transkei (Unitra) council has accepted the major recommendations of a damning report on its affairs commissioned by Minister of Education Sibusiso Bengu. These include the immediate departure of the university’s controversial principal, Professor Alfred Moleah, the resumption of all official duties by its vice- principal Professor JM Noruwana and a […]

Donna Block: SHARE WORLD When the parties stop and the champagne haze wears off, 1998 will be a year that many of us would love to forget – at least from a financial point of view. Anything that could go wrong did. The mighty Asian tigers transformed into pussycats. The Russian bear got stuffed. Japan’s […]

These days, the Million Dollar Challenge is more about cracking the nod than it is about the prize money, reports Andy Capostagno The most delicious irony of the Nedbank Million Dollar Challenge is that you have to be a millionaire in the first place just to crack an invite. A decade ago when Welshman Ian […]

Andrew Hawks Enna Kayopa has never heard of the new drugs that are offering a future for so many Aids patients in Europe and North America. She lives in a village in rural Zambia, in Southern Africa. She will be dead before triple combination therapy is available through the public health care system here. After […]

World Aids day came and went this week with a big show of concern. President Nelson Mandela spoke out about the silence around Aids and everywhere people were wearing red ribbons. There is clearly a new public awareness trail that has been blazed by Deputy President Thabo Mbeki. But impressive though the awareness campaign has […]

Preview of the week: Anton Marshall `Hey, have you heard of Renaissance?” I ask experimentally, honestly believing the hype that clubbers are in and slacker journos are out. “Er … Wasn’t that a Leonardo da Vinci painting?” she replies innocently, sipping on a Mule as her low- key rave vest struggles to find a cling […]

Andy Capostagno Cricket South Africa’s selectors may be justified in believing that the first and most difficult hurdle has been surmounted. The four-wicket win against the West Indies at the Wanderers will have settled a lot of butterflies in a lot of stomachs. If there was going to be a fast pitch in this series […]

Not CD of the week: Sheryl Garratt Happiness is largely a matter of perception. But if the world is split into optimists who see a glass as half- full and pessimists who see it as half- empty, then Canadian singer-songwriter Alanis Morissette goes further: she sees the glass as a dangerous weapon that will inevitably […]