Stewart Dalby Spending it Travel literature is a field in which the collector would seem spoilt for choice. The variety is vast: exploration, seafaring, biology, outer space, anthropology, derring-do, geography, geology and meteorology. Some people collect modern tourist guides while others collect rare 16th- century books about how the world was first circumnavigated. What would […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Durban | Friday 10.00pm. FIFTY-THREE heads of state, five deputy presidents or prime ministers and 102 foreign ministers will be attending the Non-Aligned Movement summit which begins in Durban on Saturday. A further 12 foreign ministers will participate as observers, while up to 3000 delegates and several hundred media representatives will also attend. […]
Simone de Beauvoir described her companion and fellow philosopher, Jean-Paul Sartre, as her `greatest achievement’. But it was the American writer Nelson Algren who was the great love of her life. They began a passionate affair just as she was embarking on her landmark feminist text, The Second Sex. In her letters, she tells of […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Cape Town | Friday 3.00PM. POLICE raided six computer retailers in Durban and Cape Town this week, uncovering counterfeit software — mainly sourced from Asia — worth R4,5 million. Attorney Marco van der Merwe, who acts for the Business Software Alliance, said on Friday: “This was a very sophisticated counterfeit product. It would […]
Piet Gouws and PH `Tienie’ Groenewald A SECOND LOOK A serious problem has developed in the platteland. Brutal attacks against the farming community have reached such alarming proportions that, even though farmers are creating security structures to ensure their own safety and that of their labourers, the number of farmers in certain districts on the […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Sunday 1.30pm. THE Eastern Province rugby team caused probably the greatest upset of the 1998 Currie Cup championships by beating the Free State Cheetahs 20-7 in Port Elizabeth on Friday. The Elephants were ahead 14-7 at half-time, and defended with absolute commitment to keep the Cheetahs, last year’s runners-up in the […]
Howard Barrell Over a Barrel Thabo Mbeki, eloquent wielder of words though he is, has given himself a nigh impossible task: talking up an African revival. How the hell can the deputy president talk of an “African renaissance” when this continent is maimed by murder and misery? Look at Algeria, Angola, Burundi, Congo, Eritrea, Ethiopia, […]
An American academic believes the term `world music’ is merely an excuse for music companies to indulge in music cannibalism, writes Anthea Garman In the great age of discovery adventurers like Christopher Columbus sallied forth to explore the planet – with results that have continued to bedevil humanity into this century. Today in a similar […]
Sandra Spavins EMILY-KATE by Meg Jordan (Iris) This is a story about a little girl who temporarily goes missing on a farm in KwaZulu-Natal. It is a large-format picture book, but has more text than most books of this type. The average eight or nine year old should be able to read it, yet the […]
Karen Jackman A new computer game designed to make Charles Darwin’s theories of evolution fun for biology students has earned an international award for its South African inventor. For the average 18-year-old, stepping into a new life as a university student does not involve donning a biohazard suit, digging up the missing link or tracking […]