warfare Stewart Dalby It is my wife’s birthday soon, and going through a catalogue from the London auctioneers, Bonham’s, has given me an original idea for a present. I work at home and look after the children. My wife goes to the office. In the evenings I moan about bringing up children without help and […]
Suzy Bell Should South African fashion be fun, or should it reflect urban decline? Debbie Reynolds, producer of the glamorous annual fashion event, the Durban Designer Collection (DDC) and lifestyle editor of the Independent on Saturday said of this year’s contest: “The brief to the designers and the judges was directional fashion. They were looking […]
Ann Eveleth The highest bidder for resort parastatal Aventura instructed attorneys this week to force Minister of Public Enterprises Stella Sigcau to back down from her decision to choose the buyer before a parliamentary debate on the sale. Parliament’s public enterprises portfolio committee this week also accused Sigcau of “pre-empting the activities of Parliament” and […]
Smoking cigarettes can prevent breast cancer in women carrying rare genes that predispose them to the disease, suggests a highly controversial new study. An international team, co-ordinated by Steven Narod of the Women’s College hospital in Toronto, looked at the relationship between lifestyle and breast cancer in more than 300 women with inherited mutations in […]
Jacques Pauw, who implicated Ferdi Barnard in the murder of David Webster, reflects on the failure of the law to put away those who sent him to kill It was in the autumn of 1992 that I came face to face with Ferdinand Barnard for the first time. I had stood outside his Roodepoort home, […]
David Shapshak Now that Pakistan has shown the world that it could quietly purify enough plutonium for the five nuclear devices it detonated recently – and probably enough for many more – attention is turning to how to divorce nuclear weapons from nuclear power plants. And while conventional nuclear power stations have had a bad […]
Adrian Turpin Profile: Sam Rockwell To become a star every actor needs a quirk in his or her private life. A handy hook, preferably unconnected with work, something that allows people to say, “Yeah, that’s the guy who …” For Sam Rockwell, it’s what he does in bed. “My mother, let’s just say, was a […]
John Hooper Human rights observers were last week given a rare glimpse into the workings of one of the world’s least known – and least savoury – regimes. In Malabo, the capital of theEformer Spanish colony of Equatorial Guinea, 117 people went on trial accused of separatist violence. The defendants, many of whom face the […]
Mark Gleeson in Baiersbronn World Cup It is a persistent debate as to which is bigger and better and commands the most prestige – soccer’s World Cup or the Olympic Games. Both claim television audiences in the billions, unscientific figures that still seem to seduce multi-million dollar marketing packages out of corporate coffers. The World […]
Iden Wetherell A banking crisis is followed by economic collapse. The International Monetary Fund (IMF) steps in with a harsh rescue package. Student-led anti-corruption protests precipitate the fall of a dictator whose rule has only recently been praised as providing regional stability. Zimbabwe may at first glance appear far removed from Indonesia. But recent events […]