Bush’s "war on terror" has provided cover for Sharon’s brand of state terror. As we drove through Ramallah I will never forget how he changed. Jamal, our interpreter. A lean, bookish, quietly spoken man.
Cricket, at least, is transforming strongly. There came a point, over an hour into the afternoon’s session last Saturday, when Makhaya Ntini and Paul Adams began to wilt.
Already it is becoming clear that the South African bureaucracy lacks the confidence to see that openness is a friend and not a foe.
New York seems to have shrunk in more ways than one. And, though at least one in four cars and homes fly the Stars and Stripes, the impression is that of a muted nation. The recession is hitting Manhattan hard.
Professor Jonathan Moyo, Information Minister Plenipotentiary in the government of President Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe, is sometimes capable of making a surprisingly lucid statement in the face of rabid questioning from the world’s gutter press.
Born in America, at home in Africa. Are Negroes the Wandering Jews of Africa? The question arises because I, for one, am becoming aware of more and more Negroes wandering into South Africa — and often wandering in to stay.
A lot of Christians (as well as adherents to other religions and the general mass of non-believers, of course) would envy the ease with which Muslims are allegedly able to terminate marriages that have passed their sell-by date.
Durban is losing its lustre. If there is no smoking gun behind the mysterious decline of our beloved rand, then I’m a Dutchman. While the rich (and especially the very rich) get richer, the poor get more and more baffled about the meaning of life.
When the state uses violence to suppress personal liberties, it sends the message that it is acceptable to violate the rights of others
And when you are exhausted from all that dancing, eat a bar of chocolate, slowly