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/ 25 February 2005
Raymond Mhlaba, who has died aged 85, dedicated his formidable talents to the struggle against apartheid. A member of the Rivonia group with Nelson Mandela, he was sentenced to life imprisonment, but emerged to take office in 1994 after South Africa’s first democratic elections.
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/ 25 February 2005
Lower-division teams will have an uphill battle in the Absa Cup this weekend, with only four of the 16 ties pitting non-Premier Soccer League (PSL) sides against each other. But the Davids might surprise as a couple of the PSL Goliaths are playing poorly at the moment. In particular, Santos and Sundowns — both former league champions — look ripe for a fall.
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/ 25 February 2005
As the four South African franchises have one last go at winning the Super 12, the competition that gave southern hemisphere rugby its identity is being somewhat overshadowed by events elsewhere. The lobbying has begun for the right to host the 2011 World Cup and International Rugby Board chairperson Syd Millar is already accusing the Japanese media of misquoting him.
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/ 25 February 2005
The Libyan secret agent convicted of the Lockerbie bombing was moved on Thursday from his specially constructed ”Gadaffi’s cafe” cell to Greenock prison where he will be free to mix with other inmates. Abdel Baset al-Megrahi has been in Barlinnie prison, Glasgow, since 2002, following his conviction in January 2001 of the murder of 270 people.
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/ 25 February 2005
Pope John Paul II on Thursday night underwent successful surgery to his windpipe after being rushed to hospital for the second time in a month with what the Vatican described as ”acute” respiratory difficulties. His spokesperson, Joaquin Navarro-Valls, said the 30-minute tracheotomy ”was performed and completed positively”.
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/ 25 February 2005
Cape Town’s Sea Point Pavilion’s walkway and the salt-water pool have become places where people from different cultures, economic groupings, generations and races mix, writes Jean Barker.
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/ 25 February 2005
Kate, in her mid-50s and married several times begins to feel a change, begins to care less about the material world and, in an attempt to prove this to herself, burns "several hundred-dollar bills just to demonstrate to herself that these items were not the God/Goddess of her life"
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/ 25 February 2005
Two apparently unrelated pieces of news came up last week. In one of these, much was being made about the extravagant parties and celebrations that have become a regular feature of political life these days. The day after his State of the Nation address, President Thabo Mbeki threw a celebratory lunch-time banquet for no less than 1 500 guests.
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/ 25 February 2005
In 1911, Gustave Flaubert launched a valiant but vain broadside at the hypocrisy, doublespeak, platitudes and banality of the bourgeois chattering classes. Three years after the publication of <i>A Dictionary of Received Ideas</i>, World War I broke out. In 2005, Tom Eaton presents, in three parts over the next three weeks, a new dictionary of ideas.
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/ 25 February 2005
Schabir Shaik’s defence is hanging by a thread — albeit a substantial thread named Jacob Zuma. As Shaik began testifying in his defence in the fraud and corruption trial in Durban this week, it became increasingly clear that crucial aspects of his evidence rely on Deputy President Jacob Zuma for corroboration.