Not to skewer the post-census euphoria, but we have to face our linguistic selves in the morning mirror. The language landscape in SA is not pretty, in two troubling ways: we have virtually no idea who speaks what, and policymakers don’t care.
Fifty-eight years later, using recently discovered large-scale Japanese maps, sophisticated computer models and new radiation measurements, scientists have completed a painstaking reconstruction of events in Hiroshima.
Until recently I was under the impression that marriage was just a disgracefully patriarchal cattle market. But then my friend Dave asked me to be best man at his wedding. Undeniably, there are problems inherent in the idea of a female best man.
Nearly every household in Changwe Village, Malawi, cares for at least one child orphaned by Aids. But because parents look after their own family first, often the orphans do not have enough to eat. A hard look at life in rural Malawi.
Now, the Oom’s memory is longer than a Kruger elephant’s stream of piss, but even he was stretched by some claims made this week by our very own RW ”Cecil John” Johnson.
French Open champion Juan Carlos Ferrero and Wimbledon champion Roger Federer fell in the second round of the Tennis Masters Series in Cincinnati on Wednesday as an upset-bug hit the tournament.
Mike Tyson’s recent bankruptcy filing has delayed the ex-heavyweight champion’s best shot at a potential huge payday: his civil lawsuit against promoter Don King.
India’s 36 top cricketers assembled in Bangalore on Thursday for a 13-day pre-season fitness camp amid a growing row over the government’s decision to waive import duty worth thousands of dollars for a Ferrari given to superstar Sachin Tendulkar.
Mark Butcher and Nasser Hussain’s unbroken stand of 56 checked South Africa’s progress in the third Test at Trent Bridge in England on Thursday. At lunch on the first day England were 85 for two with Butcher 37 not out including seven fours and former captain Hussain 20 not out.
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