Lauren Shantall food Our tummies are global gourmets, burbling loudly in favour of a worldly identity. We don’t realise how much the myth of a national character is corroded by our own digestive enzymes, or how the notion of “Rainbow cuisine” colours our palates in far more languages than a mere 11. For in any […]
Paul van Eeden in San Diego There can be no doubt that the United States faces a serious deflationary threat. More than $4-trillion has been lost in the stock market and, regardless of how you spin the numbers, that money is gone. Even though Federal Reserve chief Alan Greenspan has been inflating the money supply […]
Reality TV is controversial, lucrative and very popular. Sylvie Kerviel examines a cultural phenomenon In 1999 the Dutch “reality television” show Big Brother, in which a group of contestants was isolated from the rest of the world and kept under 24-hour surveillance, was an instant hit. It was so successful that it immediately spawned similar […]
Harry Viljoen finally admits Montgomery is a flop as the Boks’ on-field general Andy Capostagno It would be easier to believe Springbok coach Harry Viljoen’s assertion that he is building for the 2003 World Cup if he had not made five changes to the starting line-up for the second Test against France in Durban on […]
This one-time glamour stock has fallen from R22 to R1. But is it a fundamentally sound business and is it offering value at these levels? Belinda Anderson Nicolaas Vlok, the CEO of Idion, has successfully managed to turn what was once a family business into a global software group. The catalyst was the purchase of […]
Joel Avni ROCKS OF AGES: SCIENCE AND RELIGION IN THE FULLNESS OF LIFE by Stephen Jay Gould (Jonathan Cape) THE PLEASURE OF FINDING THINGS OUT by Richard PFeynman (Penguin) Religion and science seem to have dominated intellectual discourse for centuries. Ironic, isn’t it, that two of humanity’s main intellectual systems come up with such contradictory […]
CHARLENE SMITH, Johannesburg | Friday A SOUTH African is 12 times more likely to be murdered than the international norm, according to a leading medical researcher. A South African is also two-and-a-half times more likely to be murdered than to die in a road accident. And a teenager in Cape Town is more likely to […]
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Pretoria | Wednesday SOUTH African Trade and Industry Minister Alec Erwin denied on Tuesday that the government deliberately misled the public about the cost of a multi-billion dollar strategic defence package. Speaking at a public hearing into alleged corruption into the $5.5-billion deal, Erwin defended an original cost estimation in 1998 that put the price […]
POLICE in northern Tanzania were holding 17 people on Wednesday and had seized nine tonnes of marijuana, state-owned radio Tanzania reported on Wednesday. Quoting regional police commander Paul Ntobi in Mara, the radio said that the suspects were arrested in four villages, following a swoop launched after a tip-off by local citizens. Ntobi said some […]