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/ 22 January 2007
When Micho Sredojevic’s contract with Orlando Pirates was mutually terminated last week, the Serbian described how he "felt like Mandela being released from prison". It is sad that the "grand old lady" of South African soccer has been turned into something of a circus with problems on and off the pitch.
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/ 22 January 2007
When Condoleezza Rice left the Middle East recently sizing up the chances of relaunching an Israeli-Palestinian peace process, her first port of call was not Downing Street. And it certainly was not Paris. Rather, the United States secretary of state headed for the gleaming palace of steel, glass and concrete that is the German chancellery at the heart of the new Berlin to swap notes with Angela Merkel.
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/ 22 January 2007
"While you sleep!" is a catchphrase on hundreds of internet sites selling products that are supposed to help you, for example, "overcome fear of clowns" and "master the bagpipes". "Sleep learning" comes out of the "self-empowerment" movement, dating back to the 1930s. Instructions on how to do all manner of things while having a snooze used to be contained in cassettes kept in the section of the bookshop next to macrobiotic cookery books.
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/ 22 January 2007
It’s just one of those Johannesburg phenomena you have to get you head around, I suppose. I currently live in the eastern suburb of Observatory and my nearest friendly shopping neighbourhood for food and such like is the formerly predominantly Jewish suburb of Cyrildene.
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/ 22 January 2007
Is it perhaps time to say "<i>yebo baba</i>" to a bleached sphincter? Yes, you. Is your sphincter too brown? An open-ended question, if ever there was one. You can now have a sparkling brown eye by having it bleached. Some beauticians are billing it as the new Brazilian wax.
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/ 22 January 2007
David Macfarlane is one of the better education journalists in the land. He has been a long time in the business and has a nose for a good story. He regularly peppers the education bureaucracies with emailed questions, from which he draws his own conclusions. He probably pays closer attention to the minister’s speeches than most others. But, in his critique of the role of the minister of education we have seen a blind spot, writes Duncan Hindle, director general of education.
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/ 22 January 2007
Six months after thousands of tonnes of fuel oil spilled into the Mediterranean when Israel bombed a Lebanese power plant, the waters are still spitting out black poison despite efforts to clean up the mess. "The rain and the low tide have created new pollution zones," Ahmed Kojok of the Sea of Lebanon association told the media.
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/ 22 January 2007
In the past few years, South Africa’s currency has gained recognition as one of a handful of the world’s traded commodity currencies. This term applies in countries where the world commodity price of the country’s commodity exports has an important effect on their real exchange rate.
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/ 22 January 2007
Whoever wants to be the next president of the African National Congress will probably have to go through president Thabo Mbeki, who has been asked by the party’s most influential province to guide the 95-year-old ANC towards its centenary years. Senior members of the Eastern Cape provincial executive committee (PEC) of the ANC are convinced that this “son of the soil will never say no to a mandate by the ANC”.
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/ 22 January 2007
The sun has dropped below the horizon and the muezzins in Gaza and Egypt produce two distinct walls of sound at either side of the deserted strip that buffers the border. Darkness falls quickly on the no-man’s land that used to be patrolled by Israeli tanks. The 100m-wide strip is a graveyard of bulldozed houses. Mounds of rubble and steel spikes are monuments to what used to be streets.