A tougher test than the Dane is needed before Lewis John Rawling After battering the gallant though outclassed Brian Nielsen to defeat, Mike Tyson said he needed two more fights before he would be ready to attempt to regain the world heavyweight title. He is probably right, but the television powerbrokers who dictate the course […]

channel vision Robert Kirby Last week’s Special Assignment on the subject of child prostitution opened with a real stinger. In her usual soulful tones, Annaliese Burgess announced that permission to have themselves filmed, interviewed and transmitted had been granted by a collection of child prostitutes. What seems not to have struck Annaliese or her reporters […]

Matthew Burbidge Top hotel chefs in Gauteng feel like frustrated artists: no one appreciates their work, South Africans just want bigger slices and they’ll never be really, really rich, they moaned in the Hyatt’s kitchen this week. Seven chefs, or sevens stars, as they are called, from the South African Chefs’ Association are performing at […]

Who does Robert Mugabe think he is, that he can take over businesses as well? He is a thief, a low-life, someone who looks at others’ possessions with envy and then plots to steal them. I am repulsed to have such an immoral man claiming to be the leader of Zimbabwe. He must have no […]

The links between Orlando Pirates and Jomo Cosmos which almost amount to a father and son relationship stretch back to the days when Jomo Sono use to play for Pirates. The “Black Prince” left the Buccaneers to go and play for a team known as New York Cosmos in the United States. On his return […]

The era ushered in by terrorism will not be a time of freedom analysis Anthony Holiday Odd as it may seem, there is a category of professionals, drawn from every nation, class and creed, for whom terrorism and the global war against it have brought bountiful rewards in terms of profit and prestige and the […]

Marianne Merten “Let’s talk about sex”, goes the popular song. But organisers of an international sex tourism conference found the chambers of Parliament are not the place for such frankness. Instead, about 100 delegates – ranging from a matron to an activist, with a smattering of men – relocated to a corner of historic Cape […]

Gary Cotterell Levi, Diesel, Nike the Y-Generation is branded from head to toe. With money to burn, these 20-somethings present an attractive slice of the pie for banking strategists. But this market is a tricky one. Dino Fifas, MD of Logistix Kids SA, says the youth market has traditionally been costly for banks maintaining thousands […]