Neil Manthorp in Adelaide Gary Kirsten stared at no one in particular and, as calmly as if he was ordering a club sandwich from room service, told 38 journalists and five television stations that South Africa believed they could win the series. Whats more, he admitted that that may not have been the case four […]

An alternative dining experience in Bloemfontein food Francois Fourie In a song that shares its name with the city, Valiant Swart referred to Bloemfontein as the gramadoelas, a word that roughly signifies a place far removed from civilisation. Bloemfontein has always had to bear the brunt of jokes in the more cosmopolitan cities in our […]

Q&A: PETERCOHEN Matthew Krouse Bright Blue is South African musics cutest success story, a band that has bridged form and time. Their lively jive sound, mixed with the rythms of mbaqanga, became popular on the early multiracial music circuit of the 1980s, a time of musical protest to apartheid, coming from even the most middle […]

Jaspreet Kindra The Treatment Action Campaigns crusade for the provision of anti-retroviral drugs to people living with HIV/Aids is to serve as a model for a civic campaign for the expropriation of land from absentee landlords, and of unutilised or underutilised land. Frustrated with what they consider the governments inadequate land reform policies, the South […]

Minorities don’t have the benefit of their interests officially being taken care of, writes Koos Malan When the Democratic Alliance was formed last year, some believed, rather optimistically, that South Africa was firmly on its way to a fully-fledged two-party system. This development was supposed to place South Africa in the company of the best […]

Sandile Ngidi The fledgling community radio movement was dealt a blow last month with the closure of the South African Community Radio Network (Sacrin). Sacrin was an initiative by the Congress of South African Trade Unions Centre for Democratic Communications, which was launched in 1997 to provide a satellite link-up platform for community radio stations […]

Companies are stalling on repatriating their export earnings Mungo Soggot and David Macfarlane A leading South African economist, SG Securities Nico Czypionka, says South African companies listed offshore are maximising their returns by taking their cash flows offshore. Czypionka is referring to outflows to South African companies listed abroad, which, he says, “are a major […]

Harriet Mazansky of Boston is shaken by South Africans’ America bashing (December 7). She needs to know the real bad news: the attack on our currency has made us feel that elements within the globe-gobbling superpower have made themselves our enemies. If someone tries to mug us on the street, we shoot to kill lest […]

From page 48 players try to rattle their cage, the more they betray their own self doubts. Even Adam Gilchrist, the calm, sensible vice-captain, got it embarrassingly wrong before the Test started. “Every time we play against South Africa it is regarded as the world championship,” he said, promisingly. “There is a lot riding on […]

Khadija Magardie and Esa Conning The art of qiraat or recitation of Islams holy book, the Quran, is as old as the Quran itself. Muslims regard the Quran, revealed to the Prophet Muhammad in the seventh century, as the pure, unadulterated Word of God and place strict injunctions on the believers to both recite and […]