Simply Salmon was hailed as a champion in the making when reeling off impressive wins from his first two starts, but a knee injury just before his intended third start put him off the track for eleven months. Further setbacks have restricted the son of Western Winter to a total of just five runs since […]
Palesa Motanyane visits Classic FM to find out how it is coping with local content provision While radio stations such as Ukhozi FM boast of an extensive reservoir of maskanda or isicatamiya music, Classic FM scrapes the surface in search of recordings of locally produced classical music. The ever-decreasing financial support for symphony orchestras around […]
Former President Nelson Mandela is being careful not to offend the Thabo Mbeki with his comments on Aids.
A Home Affairs decision which some say had more to do with influence-mongering than an impartial application of the rules has been rescinded Stefaans Brmmer Minister of Home Affairs Mangosuthu Buthelezi late this week overruled his own director general to allow a top mining executive back into South Africa. Mark Wellesley-Wood, a British citizen, had […]
Only political change will put the economy back on its feet, writes John Robertson Like the front-runner in a demolition derby, Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe has left behind a trail of destruction as he races for the finishing line, frantically trying to avoid being overtaken. Whoever wins, a massive amount of restoration work will have […]
Wisani wa ka Ngobeni The Southern African Catholic Bishops Conference (SACBC) has slammed the New Partnership for Africa’s Development (Nepad), calling some of its proposals “dubious” and criticising a lack of consultation with those it would affect. Speaking at the end of a one-day SACBC conference in Pretoria attended by Nepad representatives, the church leaders […]
Business is chafing as the new Immigration Bill is held up by party politicking Marianne Merten The long-delayed Immigration Bill is set for a further round of public opinion sounding by Parliament’s home affairs committee, prompting complaints of “paralysis by consultation”. It is understood that Minister of Home Affairs and Inkatha Freedom Party leader Mangosuthu […]
If all the soccer were not enough, the other two of South Africa’s big three sports, cricket and rugby, are also getting more time on the box. It will be interesting to see how many masochists tune in to watch the home side take on the Australian cricketers again in the second Test, followed almost […]
Some government departments are helping to break the poverty cycle Angela Field Last year James Mlawu’s team although he sees himself as part of the team, not its leader won the top Impumelelo Innovations Award for the KwaZulu-Natal government. Since then delegations from all tiers of government and even from the United States have come […]
Mike Marqusee Dancing shoes is dead: A TALEOFFIGHTINGMENINSOUTHAFRICA by Gavin Evans (Doubleday) Ever since the ringside cry of “Don’t let the nigger win!” went up at the epic 1810 bout between the black American ex-slave Molineux and the English champ Cribb, the theatre of boxing has been infused with the politics of race. Not surprisingly, […]