Barry Streek French scientist-artist Jean-Marc Philippe came to South Africa this week to promote the world’s largest and, perhaps, wackiest art project: to launch a satellite into orbit with six billion messages that will come back to Earth in 50 000 years’ time. “It is a gift from man of today to the man of […]
The horror of addiction can be replaced with a new threat in rehabilitation centres Hazel Friedman “I began my life right on track Then my enemy appeared. His name is crack. But as the vapour explodes in your head, Be prepared for an early deathbed.” These are extracts from a poem penned by Kevin Castle […]
Martin Gillingham athletics South Africa’s top-ranked athlete, shot putter Janus Robberts, has admitted that until last month he had no intention of competing at the world championships and changed his mind only when the world governing body’s rulebook was waved at him by local athletics officials. The 22-year-old from Louis Trichardt, who studies and competes […]
Eddie Butler rugby Without wishing to be too catty, the touring Lions are not great time-keepers. A lot of it has to do with the fact that Graham Henry is notorious for losing track of the clock in training. And if he’s bad, then Andy Robinson is worse. And Phil Larder worse again. It’s quaint […]
According to law, children should be jailed only as a last resort, but this has never been clearly communicated to magistrates by Correctional Services. Barry Streek reports Two boys, aged 12 and 13, arrested for alleged housebreaking, have been removed from Pollsmoor prison. The acting head of the prison, Eric Morton, initially refused to admit […]
Tracey Farren A Cape Town photographer was robbed, stripped and left in the bush with a sock stuffed in his mouth in February. A policeman rounded up the culprits on the same day and returned the man’s goods to him. Three of the suspects were below the age of 18 and this was their first […]
The Australian leg-spinner brought colour to cricket but his powers have been fading recently David Hopps The one thing that can be predicted with certainty about Shane Warne’s Ashes summer is that there will not be another Ball of the Century. The bleach-blond Australian may still be one of cricket’s leading attractions, but life does […]
Ntuthuko Maphumulo soccer The South African under-23 Amaglug-glug squad this week began preparing for the All Africa Games and the 2004 Olympics to be held in Athens. They kicked off the Sasol Four Nations Cup with a 1-1 draw against Mozambique at the Orlando stadium in Soweto on Monday and followed that up with a […]
Site content and community were vital to plans to get rich quick. But sites with great content and large communities are still being forced to close, writes Jim McClellan In the mid-1990s, techno-gurus claimed that successful websites needed to focus on “the three Cs” content, community and commerce. Of these, content as in stuff to […]
Lynda Gilfillan DRINK That exotic margarita you’ve just knocked back may well have come from the Karoo. Tequila is being made in a great white barn of a building outside Graaff-Reinet and is exported to Europe. Agave Distillers, a partnership between South African and French investors Rockwood and Hines, is pioneering the distilling of tequila […]