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 […]
Stepping from the relentless glare of a Johannesburg summer morning into the cool darkness of the Wits Theatre is not unlike entering a secret, parallel universe. One minute you’re dodging a stream of sausage-factory suits hurtling along the pavement to work, the next you’re watching a man in a loincloth sweep his arms over a […]
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 […]
Dan Glaister in London He played a priest in True Confessions and the devil in Angel Heart, but these blasphemous associations did not stop the Vatican approaching Robert de Niro to ask him to contribute to a CD recording of the poems of Pope John Paul II. But now the invitation has been withdrawn. The […]
Before you fly off to foreign shores, consider the cost of leaving home, warns Belinda Beresford With accountants taking overseas exams while doing their South African articles, and medical students reportedly planning to leave en masse, the sound of the packing of bags has become background noise to many South Africans. While many people don’t […]
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 […]
Chris Gordon The Angolan ambassador to the United Nations, Franca van Dunem, has accused Unita of preparing for war. The crisis, occasioned by the rebel movement’s repeated failure to meet UN deadlines for completing peace protocols, came to a head this week with the government warning of a major increase in hostilities. A meeting between […]
Krisjan Lemmer Krisjan Lemmer has decided to introduce an annual “Zuma Award” for the public official making the most innovative appeal to racism to cover up government incompetence. The prize is an all-expenses-paid weekend in George with the Groot Krokodil as host. The award is named after the Minister of Health in tribute to her […]
politicians It seems there may be some kind of inverse correlation between the popularity of political parties and public figures in the media on the one hand, and with the public on the other. At the very least the issue would provide fertile ground for research for a PhD thesis! During the 1994 elections, most […]
THURSDAY, 5.45PM: THE South African Chamber of Business’s Business Confidence Index (BCI) strengthened in February, on the eve of the Budget, Sacob announced on Thursday. Regardless of the economy’s slowdown and the weakness of consumer demand, the BCI improved by 1,5%, after remaining static since November last year. The falling inflation rate, expectations of lower […]