One of the biggest computer revolutions of the 1990s remained hidden from most consumers, in spite of being extensively used by anyone who worked for a large company.
Everybody wants to be famous, but sadly, few will be. It’s far easier to just support those lucky souls who have made it to the big time, and these are some of the people taking part in the National School of the Arts’s (NSA) Festival of Fame, featuring the "truly famous, newly famous and about to be famous".
A rather unkind commentator, in his ruthlessly camp way, once described Brett Bailey as "the Stromboli of community theatre" — comparing the enfant terrible of South African theatre with the old man who created Pinocchio in that old European fairy tale. It was a sourly humorous comment.
I know I tend to blather on about the absurdities of political correctness, but once again I can’t contain myself from reporting on another mindless foray by the PC brigade.
The state of track and field in this country offers a remarkable juxtaposition.
Lawrence Sephaka’s mates used to shake their heads when he went off to rugby practice, or if he told them that his dream was to become a Springbok.
It is never a good idea to suggest that the All Blacks are there for the taking, but beneath the confident veneer lies a team unsure of itself.
More than a century after King Leopold II of Belgium claimed Congo as his personal colony, an investigation into his country’s murky colonial past and long-ignored allegations of genocide is to be carried out. Some of the country’s most eminent historians have been commissioned.
As United Nations and world attention is focused on the looming famine in South Africa’s neighbouring states, a similar tragedy within the country’s borders is already in the making. A staggering 12,8-million people will be affected by severe shortages in staple foods.
Senior communist Jeremy Cronin — accused this week of lying about the African National Congress in a controversial interview — was in fact defending the ruling alliance and disputing the far-left view that South Africa is inexorably sliding towards tragedy.