The Khomani San still live in squalor four years after they were granted land in the remote Kalahari that consultants say could make the small band one of the richest communities in South Africa.
Margaret Atwood’s latest novel, Oryx and Crake (Bloomsbury), is not, she insists, ”science fiction” but ”speculative fiction”.
Winter in the cookery book industry was announced with the release of Topsi Venter’s Fooding about with Topsi (Eie Ruimte Publishing). Something of a coffee-table art book, it includes works by such artists as Brett Murray, Beezy Bailey and Xolile Mtakatya.
Some say he’s cold, inhuman, overly intellectual. Some say he’s the greatest American writer of his generation.
There are two greetings used by members of Her Majesty’s sporting press when they greet each other on a foreign field at the start of an event.
Unemployment has become a human crisis told in cold statistics. The official unemployment rate was 29,4% in February last year. In reality, it was about 40% — the official figure leaves out people too demoralised to get on another taxi, or make another call from the local tickey-box.
The great GDP myth
Zimbabwean Abigail Govere goes down in history this week by becoming the first female touch judge in the annals of Natal rugby.
Australian test cricket captain Steve Waugh was named an Officer of the Order of Australia (AO) on Monday for his charity work at an Indian orphanage.
Champions League winners AC Milan have revealed that they have made England captain David Beckham their top transfer target. .
United Nations Deputy Emergency Relief Co-ordinator Carolyn McAskie was due to arrive in Eritrea on Monday to assess the situation in the drought affected country, amid a warning from the UN World Food Programme that the rate of malnutrition was rising ”alarmingly”.