Kenya proved they aren’t always the whipping boys Peter Robinson Of all the international captains currently tramping through world cricket, easily the most engaging is Kenya’s Maurice Odumbe. Put it this way, if you were planning to throw some steak on the braai and pass a few beers around, then the cricketer to call to […]

Michael Hartnack Zimbabwe’s in-your-face Department of Information was at it again last week, fulminating on everything from first lady Grace Mugabe’s right to keep secret her abysmal London University law exam results, to the alleged conspiracy of whites behind South Africa’s planned deportation of Zimbabwean farm workers. Playing the race card, an unnamed “authoritative source” […]

REVIEW David Shapshak Quicken 2001 Deluxe, about R429 Once Microsoft has its eye on your particular segment of the software market, you might as well pack up your bags and go home, many in the information technology industry believe. Like its now dominant Internet Explorer, through which Microsoft took on Netscape and won, the feeling […]

The dollar has grown from strength to strength and dominates international trade with all the major currencies keeping track of their value against the greenback. Commodities such as gold and oil are sold in dollars and there seems no end in sight for the continual dominance of the United States currency in world trade. The […]

Barry Streek The government spends just R3,9-billion of the R26-billion it receives annually in taxes and licence fees on roads – despite a R23-billion backlog in road maintenance and development. Government underspending could prove a costly error. A recent high court ruling found that, in terms of the Constitution, the authorities are civilly liable for […]

African National Congress Women’s League President Winnie Madikizela-Mandela was on Thursday released on bail of R5 000 after appearing on fraud charges in the commercial crime court in Pretoria. She was arrested when she reported to court officials earlier in the morning. Madikizela-Mandela arrived at court in a luxury Mercedes Benz, and was greeted by […]

Washington | Tuesday ALARMS over possible anthrax contamination kept police busy around the world on Tuesday as new cases of the deadly disease are discovered in the United States. Police in Japan, Canada, Europe, Latin America and Australia were investigating cases of suspicious powders or liquids, though there were no reports of anthrax contamination in […]

US President George W Bush said Thursday he was ”amazed” by the hatred many people in the Islamic world have for the United States. ”I’m amazed that there’s such misunderstanding of what our country is about that people would hate us,” he told a news conference. ”Like most Americans, I just can’t believe it because […]

IRAQI leader Saddam Hussein is an ”evil man” whom the United States is watching carefully, US President George W Bush said on Thursday. At a news conference here, Bush did not specify any particular action he planned to take against Hussein in the United States’ war on terrorism. But he said: ”There is no question […]

Demand for gas masks has soared in France since the terrorist attacks in the United States and the subsequent strikes on Afghanistan, with several military surplus stores in the capital reporting record sales. ”We have been selling 70 to 80 gas masks a week since the attacks, to people of all ages and walks of […]