The Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research (WISER) only opened its doors last September, and yet it has already become a vital hub of international intellectual activity on the University of the Witwatersrand’s Braamfontein campus.
Between 70 000 and 85 000 refugees and asylum-seekers currently live in South Africa, and Johannesburg now hosts one of the largest refugee populations in Africa.
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Maria Mutola grew up in a civil war. The world’s best 800m runner, who retained her Commonwealth title in Manchester, may be involved in a battle of a different sort now.
Sitting at home in Cape Town, Rob Louw received a phone call last weekend telling him that Manchester was experiencing a heatwave. But by the time Louw, the manager of South Africa’s Sevens team at the Commonwealth Games, arrived on Monday, normal service had been resumed: it was coming down like stair-rods with thunder and lightning to boot.
When the racing season ended on Wednesday, Mike de Kock won the trainers’ championship by the comfortable margin of more than R2-million in stakes earned.
The South African Football Association (Safa) announced this week that there was no suitable person in the country to assume the position of technical director.
So, were they floored or just flawed? Despite a week characterised by a host of marvellous athletic performances — none were better than those from South Africa’s golden boys and girl.
Sponsorship deals from the SABC of R500-million and R140-million from South African Breweries came in handy in the Premier Soccer League’s (PSL) decision to cut down to 16 teams from 18.
The boys at the bar could not help chuckling at former SABC news head Snuki ”Moyo” Zikalala’s article on the Mail & Guardian in the Sowetan this week. Moyo wrote the article, he assures us, ”in his personal capacity as a journalist”. This is a very flattering self-assessment.