The Franschhoek Valley will now be remembered for a happily successful three-day-long celebration of the written word, writes Pat Schwartz
Every year, we begin the Super 14 (or 12, and before that 10) with high hopes and every year it takes about six weeks for those hopes to be utterly dashed. On the occasions when one of our teams sneaks into fourth position it is forced to travel across the Indian Ocean towards inevitable defeat.
It will become one of those great quiz questions on South African soccer in years to come. Which team beat runaway champions Mamelodi Sundowns in four out of four matches in the 2006/07 Premier Soccer League season? The answer, of course, is Ajax Cape Town, who have been like a breath of fresh air this campaign.
On May 12, the <i>Guardian</i> reported on Google’s plans to psychologically profile online gamers and then hawk the information to advertisers. The company has filed patents for a technology that analyses the tactics we use in games like <i>World of Warcraft</i> and <i>Quake</i>, so that in-game ads can be individually doctored to the player.
<i>Mail & Guardian</i> reviewers examine meaning and myth in Mmatshilo Motsei’s The Kanga and the Kangaroo Court
Master of the middlebrow or late magical-realist? Isabel Allende discusses her writing with Aida Edermariam
China’s rapid rise into an economic powerhouse offering aid and soft loans is changing the aid picture in Africa — winning China its share of critics but also the gratitude of governments who say its engagement makes a difference. China has pledged to double development assistance to Africa by 2009 and write off another 10-billion yuan (,3-billion) of debt.
Paul Wolfowitz lost his battle to hang on to his job as president of the World Bank on Thursday, announcing his resignation after a bitter international controversy. However, he managed to extract a statement from the bank’s board exonerating him for wrongdoing in engineering a generous pay rise for his partner.
Custom magazines outshone the other categories in the first Audit Bureau of Circulations (ABC) figures released for this year. This category showed a massive overall growth of 47.8 percent, according to circulation figures for the period between January and March 2007, which were released on Thursday.
When, a couple of years ago, environmental conferences were held and issues of the Earth discussed, men in suits carrying briefcases were few and far between. But as climate change and environmental politics edged itself higher on to the world agenda, things have changed dramatically.