John Matshikiza’s acid depiction of Durban sinking into the post-apartheid twilight zone (“The not so Golden Mile”, March 15) preoccupied me as I walked at low tide along its beaches. Many points he makes are right: bumbling and greed are a destructive combination and its consequences are apparent in many places. But not everywhere. My […]
Jaspreet Kindra Moses Mzila, a Movement for Democratic Change (MDC)MP for Plumtree North, is a hurt man. Almost two decades ago he left his job as a schoolteacher to become a member of Joshua Nkomo’s Zimbabwe African People’s Union (Zapu) and opened his home to African National Congress freedom fighters in Bulawayo. He was among […]
Sussana Coleman Sixty-year-old Thoko Ndlovu has just seen an optometrist for the first time in her life. For five years she has had excruciating headaches and each time she sees a doctor she is referred for an eye examination. Living outside Stanger on the KwaZulu-Natal North Coast, her only option was the R60 round trip […]
At 15 Mario Vargas Llosa was a crime reporter. Still in his teens, he eloped with his aunt and later turned the story into a comic novel. He has been attacked by fellow Latin American writers for his right-wing views, and his political ambitions reached their peak when he stood for president in his native […]
Shyaka Kanuma What are Joe Nkosi and Lawrence Ngubane doing on the Bafana Bafana technical bench? New South African head coach Jomo Sono chewing on a chicken drumstick at a media conference last week said no African should ask such questions about muti people; or “special projects” men, as Nkosi and Ngubane have euphemistically been […]
Glenda Daniels Big Brother interference or just sour grapes? This is the latest fracas tearing South Africa’s already tattered civil society process apart with less than six months to go before Johannesburg hosts the World Summit on Sustainable Development. Some leftist NGOs want out of the present process because “the government has taken control of […]
A team has been set up to make the World Summit environmentally friendly Fiona Macleod When more than 50 000 delegates descend on Gauteng in August for the World Summit on Sustainable Development, one of the things they should not be asked to do is drink out of polystyrene cups. Pollution-causing fossil fuels are used […]
Rough diamond Llewellyn Herbert is determined to show who’s king of the one-lap hurdles Martin Gillingham Llewellyn Herbert may not have a career waiting for him in the diplomatic service when his hurdling legs give up on him, but in a country that in recent months has exported an entire production line of sporting losers, […]
Hong Kong | Friday CHINA will launch the third test flight of its fledgling space program within days, sending a model of an astronaut into orbit in preparation for a future manned mission, it was reported Friday. The Shenzhou III (Divine Vessel III) craft will take off from the Jiuquan Space Launch Center in northwest […]
Manila | Wednesday A PHILIPPINE legislator on Wednesday filed a bill seeking to have sex offenders castrated, Senate officials said. Opposition Senator Luisa Ejercito, wife of deposed Philippines president Joseph Estrada, said there was a need to come up with more imaginative measures to fight sex crimes. ”Given the inability of the justice system to […]