FRIDAY, 5.00PM: Cape Town housing chief Billy Cobbett has decided to stay on in his post in spite of death threats from Cape Flats gangsters. Cobbett returned Cape Town on Friday after spending two weeks in London with his wife and four children, visiting his ill mother-in-law. He fled there a fortnight ago after threats […]
Maurice Hamilton: Motor racing: If JacquesVilleneuve and Michael Schumacher pick up where they left off at the end of last year, they are in danger of fighting for the crumbs rather than the biggest slice of championship cake when the season opens in Melbourne on Sunday. Schumacher’s questionable habit of crashing into his opponent as […]
suit Who is . . . Morgan Tvsangirai? Mercedes Sayagues Trade union leader Morgan Tvsangirai, who has captured the hearts of many Zimbabweans, has emerged as President Robert Mugabe’s public enemy number one and a leading figure on Zimbabwe’s political scene. With his simple lifestyle, casual, tie-less attire, easy laugh, straight talk and quick wit, […]
Robert Kirby: Loose Cannon Our own police administration isn’t the only one coming in for continual and unwarranted media criticism. You should hear what they’ve been saying recently about that paragon of constabular integrity, the British police force. More especially the doings of someone they’ve dubbed “Condon of the Yard” – Sir Paul Condon, metropolitan […]
‘Braknaars’ of Sourvomit Sickened by Cape Town’s disrespectful tourists, ever-increasing living costs, its daily whitening and a coloured populace Americanised into clones, Zebulon Dread moved to the unknown The unknown is Afrikaans, white Swellendam, 230-odd kilometres from Cape Town, and its twin, coloured Suurbraak 20km away. There I squat on private land amid the mountainous […]
Chris Hall This week’s accusation that the African National Congress has a 6% interest in Cyropreservation Technologies, the manufacturer of the industrial solvent and experimental Aids drug Virodene, sounds uncannily similar to a Kenyan Aids scandal. Kenyan officials were accused in 1990 of rushing an unproven, experimental Aids drug on to the market to profit […]
stand Jansie Kotze and Jonathan Ancer The volk were armed with cellphones. And the leader was reduced to flogging off two bottles of mampoer dressed in a vierkleur, in his last-ditch bid to stay out of jail. It was all a long way from the Battle of Majuba. Or, for that matter, the heady days […]
Southern African sisters got their very own Web address when WomensNet was launched. A project of the Southern African non- governmental organisation network (Sangonet) the website and training scheme has taken less than a year to hit the information superhighway. It was conceived in June last year when interested women got together to plan the […]
Investing in listed companies with interests in the gaming sector may be a dangerous gamble, but some are bound to hit the Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE) jackpot. Legislation passed a year ago legalised casino gaming in South Africa for the first time, setting in place a race between local and international gaming companies for the […]
Andy Duffy, is truly muddle-headed. In his article “UWC debt collector’s deal”(February 13 to 19) he gets his story wrong in so many areas that I must wonder about his competence. Now for the facts: Professor Ikey van de Rheede was appointed as vice-rector (student affairs) by the broad-based process which the university adopted in […]