Guy Willoughby When is a foul-mouthed bore with a taste for urinals more than a foul-mouthed bore with a taste for urinals? When s/he’s a fully paid-up comedian in the Danger Zone at the Smirnoff International Comedy Festival, that’s when. Now in its fifth year, this hugely successful funny-folk festival has made marvellous strides. Time […]

Mboniso Sigonyela The two listed companies that have on their boards South Africa’s former defence minister, Joe Modise, who is embroiled in the government’s arms procurement scandal, still stand by him. In so doing they risk damaging publicity, should he be arrested like his comrade, former African National Congress chief whip Tony Yengeni, for his […]

RUGBY Andy Capostagno It would be nice if we could concentrate on the final round of Currie Cup Super Eight matches due to be played this weekend, what with six teams still in the hunt for the semifinals and all. Unfortunately, however, as the domestic rugby season draws to a close, foot-shooting season is upon […]

GOLF Andy Capostagno The field for the 2001 Nedbank Golf Challenge was announced in Johannesburg this week. There are four new names for the 21st playing of the tournament that used to be and in most circles still is known as ”The Million Dollar”. Among the quartet are two of this year’s four major winners, […]

David Macfarlane Tensions are rising sharply over the new school curriculum as teacher unions and other educationists rush to submit their responses to the lengthy draft curriculum statement released for public comment at the end of July. The deadline for responses is today. One area of concern is that there are a number of new […]

Unsociable Giant breaks US all-time home-run record Rob Steen Being the son of a celebrated father has been a burden for many in sport, where memories are elephantine, the past aspic-coated. Think Richard Hutton, Gary Nicklaus, John Bradman. Yet Barry Bonds has overcome this disadvantage so serenely that recollections of his father, the record-breaking San […]

Sipho Seepe’s article (”Language, truth and logic”, October 5) is right on the money. However, I propose that the ruling elite, far from their inability to structure their thoughts or present dissent on the issues of the day, are largely hamstrung by the vagaries of English discourse. This language historically resides in Graeco-Roman and/or Anglo-Saxon […]

The official launch of World Summit 2002 took place in Johannesburg this week. Victor Munnik explains what it’s all about Nations are works of the imagination. People become part of a nation when they think of themselves as citizens. Nations come into being in words and symbols. The words that make up history, constitutions, political […]

The government’s reluctance to allow release of the Medical Research Council (MRC) report on Aids deaths in South Africa continues its policy of shooting the messengers rather than supporting the research needed to understand and control the HIV/Aids epidemic. This reluctance has some disturbing wider implications. First, the collection and summary of vital statistics, that […]

CHARMAINE PRETORIUS, Durban | Thursday BANKS in South Africa last year dismissed 926 of their employee contingent of 120 000 due to fraud, Absa Bank said on Thursday. Enterprise wide risk management general manager Maadian Botha of Absa’s forensic services department, was addressing a group of Durban business people on Thursday on fraud risk management […]