Matt Haig One thing to have survived the dot.com slump intact is the obsession for e-business acronyms, and B2T, referring to the business-to-teenage online market, is the latest. As teenagers are typically receptive to new technologies, companies targeting this market are being advised to use the Internet not only as a medium to communicate their […]

It is with much disgust that I note your lack of professionalism as an editor of a major South African publication when you tell Hansie Cronje to “fuck off”. A more objective and insightful view is what I would expect from an editor like yourself, but what should I be expecting from someone as crass […]

analysis Khadija Magardie Last week’s violence at the Zandspruit informal settlement in Gauteng, last month’s looting and burning of Somali-owned shops in Uitenhage and undoubtedly several undocumented attacks directed at foreigners, pose a serious question. Not whether locals become salivating mobs at the thought of a “kwere-kwere” moving in next door. But whether public education […]

I refer to the article by David Macfarlane titled: “We can’t afford silence” (October 26). I don’t understand why leading educationists in South Africa, the Education Department and Kader Asmal don’t just spell out the reason for the 85% drop in qualifying teachers, other than the effect of HIV/Aids. Government policy has caused the closure […]

Santos eliminated Ajax Cape Town to enter the semifinals of the Coca-Cola Cup Ntuthuko Maphumulo It took 90 minutes of regulation play, 29 minutes of extra time and a golden goal by Jean Marc Ithier on Wednesday to secure Santos a berth in the Coca-Cola Cup semifinal against Kaizer Chiefs this weekend. Ajax Cape Town […]

Jaspreet Kindra African National Congress officials at a top-level meeting last weekend tried to persuade the South African Communist Party to withdraw its support for the Congress of South African Trade Unions’s anti-privatisation campaign. The ANC pulled out its heavy artillery for the meeting between the two alliance partners on Sunday. Its delegation was led […]

Barry Streek An apartheid-era proposal to licence journalists in the Southern African Development Community (SADC) has been incorporated into a protocol that was signed by the heads of state of its 14 member countries in August. “State parties shall establish a regional and internationally recognised SADC accreditation system or procedure for media practitioners with specific […]

I do not like to bore readers with slanging matches. But allow me to make an exception with Ebrahim Rasool’s letter of October 26 (“Does Rhoda Kadalie want a job with the DA?”). Let me respond to Rasool’s main charges. First, the African National Congress’s “coconut” advertisement is racist. It is a cheap shot that […]

Neal Collins Lucas Radebe faces an uncertain future in the game that has been his life. According to sources at Leeds United, the Soweto-reared centre-half might never be able to train properly again, such is the state of his creaking 32-year-old knees. The Chief, Rhoo, Lucas, call him what you will, but life has been […]

Although he pioneered the PlayStation 2, the favourite toy of Sony chief Ken Kutaragi is not its games console, as Steven Poole discovers ‘Plus plus plus plus plus plus!” That, according to Ken Kutaragi, is the videogame business. The smiling, dapper president of Sony Computer Entertainment Inc is talking, in his charmingly idiosyncratic way, about […]