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/ 27 February 2004
"I never saw such an extraordinarily beautiful place in life as there, hundreds of feet below us stretched out the whole valley with our huts looking like specks, and in the distance there were hills rising one above another, with a splendid blue tint on them." I don’t know exactly where Cecil John Rhodes was when he penned the above lines, about 130 years ago, but it must have been somewhere very close to the viewing platforms overlooking the Umkomaas Valley at Duma Manzi.
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/ 27 February 2004
Lesedi Cultural Village, a traditionally styled multi-cultural centre close to Hartbeespoort Dam, is currently undergoing extensive renovations. Situated on the R512 en route to Sun City, just 10km north of Lanseria airport and with easy access from Pretoria and Johannesburg, Lesedi (the Sotho word for "light") is becoming one of Gauteng’s more unusual conference venues.
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/ 27 February 2004
"Considering it’s the world’s biggest metropolis, Mexico City is surprisingly short on trendy hotels. The super-minimalist Habita was hailed as a trailblazer when it opened in October 2000; but it remained the city’s only design hotel for the next three years". Mexico is the latest destination for chic hotels. Isabel Choat chooses five of the best.
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/ 27 February 2004
In these times of pre-electoral fever the South African public is finding itself beset with a host of so-called party manifestos. People unfamiliar with the nomenclature and style of these usually imaginative exaggerations can easily be bewildered. In a short series of “For Dummies” explanations, this column will attempt to make things easier for those without the time or experience to learn the hard way.
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/ 27 February 2004
This fusion of the traditional and modern is taking place in Tanga, a north-eastern region on the Tanzanian coast, where the Tanga Aids Working Group is combining modern voluntary counselling and testing methods with the knowledge of local healers in treating opportunistic infections associated with HIV/Aids.
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/ 27 February 2004
As a company Anglo American is moving in the right direction, but it will need a "mega" merger if it is to make a quantum leap in growth, says Chris Law, a mining analyst at HSBC Securities in London. Describing the results as "very good", he said the London market was finally waking up to his long-held contention that Anglo "is a great group with great assets".
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/ 27 February 2004
Despite casting aspersions on the opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) this week, Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe conceded the need to engage his arch-rivals in a bid to find a negotiated settlement to the current crisis. The Zimbabwean leader understands that a negotiated settlement is the only way forward.
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/ 27 February 2004
The Zimbabwe government has announced it will embark on a countrywide exercise to update the voters’ roll ahead of parliamentary elections, due in March 2005. "We want to ensure that all eligible voters are registered in time for the general elections," Home Affairs Minister Kembo Mohadi announced over the weekend.
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/ 27 February 2004
To his fans, Marco Pantani was Il Pirata. Since his death in The Roses apartment hotel in Rimini on the evening of Valentine’s Day, Pantani’s other, hidden life has been brutally exposed. It was not Stevenson’s “drink and the devil” that did for this pirate, but men in smart suits peddling cocaine and its derivative, crack.
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/ 27 February 2004
The legend of The Greatest is as healthy as ever, even if the man himself is not. Whenever an Olympic torch is needed to be held shakily aloft, Ali is there. Whenever Americans vote on the greatest sportsman ever, Muhammad Ali invariably edges out Dan Marino, Wayne Gretsky and Xena, Warrior Princess.