YACHTING John Young When Columbus was hanging around the Portuguese court trying to find a sponsor for his yacht to cross the Atlantic, King Joo II lied to him about the location of the Cape of Good Hope. Knowing that the information would get back to Spain, the king told Columbus it was 10 degrees […]

Size, not subtlety, is the name of the game for the Springboks’ first Test on tour Andy Capostagno in Paris In the foyer of the Springbok team’s hotel in Paris stands a replica of “The Winged Victory of Samothrace”. This is the Goddess Nike, who through the intervening millennia has been transformed into the trademark […]

BOXING Deon Potgieter It’ll be pride against pride on November 17 when Hassim (the Rock) Rahman defends his universal heavyweight world championship against the man he dethroned for the title, Lennox Lewis, in Las Vegas. This bout will not be about athletic prowess, it will be about who has the biggest heart. Lewis claims the […]

We cannot have an alleged criminal running around the streets in a Metro police uniform and gun, says an outraged Durban councillor Paul Kirk A Durban Metro policeman who was implicated in an investigation into a car hijacking syndicate has been promoted to the rank of acting sergeant and put in charge of the force’s […]

Barry Streek Safety and Security Minister Steve Tshwete this week restated the African National Congress’s grim determination to drive through a law allowing public representatives to cross the floor at all three levels of government, even if Parliament has to be recalled to consider the legislation. Tshwete’s statement seems to scotch rumours that, having succeeded […]

While there is justified concern over the shortage of teachers in South Africa, it is ironical that the Department of Education is reluctant to re-employ teachers who, although having opted for voluntary severance packages, are prepared to re-enter the education system, realising that their calling is in education. Admittedly, there is a decided shortage of […]

Glenda Daniels Communists and trade unionists are ambivalent about the possible tie-up between the New National Party and the African National Congress, endorsing it as a strategic compromise but also seeing it a potential a boost for ANC rightwingers. A Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) statement this week attacked the NNP as “a […]

South Africa is hosting the United Nations’ International Telecommunication Union exhibition and forum event for the second time Jubie Matlou More than 200 companies from 40 countries will display the latest information and communication tech-nology equipment at Gallagher Estate next week. In addition, 200 speakers have been lined up to deliver papers on a wide […]

Belinda Beresford While the World Trade Organisation prepares itself for a full and frank discussion on costs and access to medicines in Qatar next week, the Democratic Alliance has stepped into the fray by submitting a private member’s Bill to Parliament to allow easier access to anti-retroviral drugs in South Africa. Unveiled yesterday, the Bill […]