South Africa and the global economy Andrew Feinstein When I arrived at the University of Cambridge to undertake postgraduate studies in economics, a famed post-Keynesian professor asked me where I had done my undergraduate economics. I responded that I hadn’t, that my first two degrees had been in clinical psychology.”A far better training for studying […]

There are, these days, supposed to be no victims no living ones, anyway. There are only survivors. There are rape survivors, Aids survivors, racism survivors, assault survivors you name it. I am an African National Congress survivor. Only the dead, it seems, can now respectably lay claim to having been victims. And the dead, as […]

RUGBY’SYEARIN REVIEW Andy Capostagno A traumatic year for Springbok rugby began with a false dawn. The Sharks and the Cats played each other in the semifinal of the Super 12, a fact that not only prompted talk of South African teams having finally come to terms with the competition, but guaranteed one of them a […]

It has been a war fought like no other hi-tech,one-sided and very rapid. The Afghan campaign will revolutionise the way we think about conflict Paul Harris and Gaby Hinsliff in London, Ed Vulliamy in New York, Peter Beaumont in Quetta and Jason Burke in Jalalabad Hamid Karzai stood outside the ancient walls of Kandahar and […]

David Macfarlane and Mungo Soggot Kanthan Pillay, a top executive at e.tv, has lodged a criminal defamation charge against noseweek editor Martin Welz for an in-depth analysis entitled”Backstage with the pricks and big dicks at e.tv”. Among other things, the article broached the alleged sexual antics of e.tv bosses, and the station’s allegedly dictatorial and […]

Derek Bauer (47), left, whose savage cartoons elevated the tone of The Weekly Mail for many years, died at the weekend in a car crash near Kleinmond on his way to deliver presents to friends. An artist who worked with ad agencies, he joined the Mail six weeks after its launch in 1985. “He gave […]

George Ellis One of the major discoveries of the past century was finding that the universe is expanding and changing with time. Indeed it has evolved from a very hot early state, when it consisted of nothing but hot gas, to the state we see today with numerous clusters of galaxies each containing billions of […]

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