CRICKET Peter Robinson The point about arrogance is that it usually helps to have something to be arrogant about. Shaun Pollock’s South Africans were accused of arrogance on the grounds that they spurned the opportunity to warm up in Harare, arriving in Zimbabwe just two days before the first Test, but it took them less […]

WILLIAM O BEEMAN, Providence, Rhode Island | Thursday NEW forms of electronic surveillance, often derided by privacy activists, are being re-evaluated as a means to improve security in the wake of Tuesday’s unprecedented terrorism attacks. Proponents of a new branch of technology known as biometrics — including face-scanning technology, iris recognition and hand geometry — […]

Barry Streek Far from shunning small and medium enterprises in the fishing industry as most other finance houses have done until now, Business Partners established after the demise of the Small Business Development Corporation (SBDC) has continued to support them. Business Partners, which is 80% owned by the private sector and 20% by the government, […]

Patrick Collinson Insurers on the World Trade Centre’s twin towers will pay out for the loss of only one tower because experts believed that the collapse of both towers simultaneously was too far-fetched to be worth insuring, it emerged on Wednesday. The Port Authority of New York, the owner of the towers, is likely to […]

Giles Foden Stories about him are legion. How he was known as one of the “Gucci muj”, the scions of rich Arab families who poured into Afghanistan in the late 1980s to help the rougher-hewn mujahedin fight the Soviets. How, having won his spurs, Osama bin Laden led an assault in the siege of Jalalabad […]

Mail & Guardian reporter March 1993 signaled the end of an arduous struggle for the shareholders of New South Africa Fishing Enterprises (NSAFE) who were finally granted a hake quota of 1 000 tonnes after 26 years of unsuccessful applications. The company is headed by Pedro Williams and his life and business partner, Diana Williams. […]

The US president has tough choices to make, writes Julian Borger in Washington President George W Bush faced a defining moment in his presidency this week, only eight months after taking office, as he sought to muster an international coalition against the terrorists responsible for Tuesday’s devastating onslaught. Talking to reporters after a meeting of […]

The elusive G-spot doesn’t exist after all BODY LANGUAGE Tim Dowling So farewell then, G-spot. This well-known if poorly charted bit of female geography, first discovered in 1944 and popularised as the seat of sexual pleasure throughout the 1980s and 1990s, is now said to be a complete myth. A report by Dr Terence Hines, […]

Marianne Merten Vito Palazzolo, the Cape-based alleged Mafia boss, has halted an investigation into his possible involvement in international money-laundering and won a stay of prosecution related to his illegal 1986 entry into South Africa. Two Cape High Court orders last Friday effectively stalled years of efforts by South African authorities to investigate the alleged […]