David Macfarlane Short of cash? Accuse a colleague of theft, and pocket R500 from your grateful employer. If you don’t like one of your work-mates, invent a theft charge, pocket the R500 bounty and get your colleague dismissed. These are some of the perks Rhodes University a haven and defender of liberal values makes available […]
Iraj Abedian The title of this year’s World Economic Forum (WEF), held last week in Durban, was “Acting on Realities, Confronting Perceptions”. Ostensibly, it was an attempt to confront and deal with the widely held view in South and Southern Africa that the rest of the world, and the Western world in particular, retains a […]
Paul Kirk A report that sought to clear the University of Durban Westville’s (UDW) highly controversial vice-chancellor Mapule Ramashala during a vote of no confidence has been slammed as a “worthless whitewash using taxpayers’ money”. The report by Mandla Adonisi of Adonisi and Associates has set the scene for the worst confrontation the university has […]
Ntuthuko Maphumulo soccer The National Soccer League (NSL) met the June 6 deadline to submit its new rules and regu-lations on player transfers to bring them in line with the Constitution. But the new system does not satisfy the South African Football Players’ Union (Safpu). The new system came about after the Andre Coetzee judgement […]
Grant Shimmin in Wellington netball She’s the biggest thing to happen to netball in New Zealand in years. In fact, it wouldn’t be stretching a point to say that without Irene van Dyk, the Silver Ferns might not have scored their two recent momentous victories over archrivals Australia. The latest, a 55-40 trouncing of the […]
Ross Garland A Second Look Following his extradition from South Africa, Khalfan Khamis Mahomed was convicted on May 29 in New York for embassy bombings in Tanzania and Kenya in 1998. He may face the death penalty. Two South Africans, one in Botswana, another in Swaziland also face the possibility of hanging. The capital punishment […]
Ufrieda Ho The Nan Hua Temple in Bronkhorstspruit rises like a displaced pagoda in the middle of fields of sun-bleached highveld grass. For the new abbess of the Buddhist temple, these contrasts and contradictions are opportunities to fire up the great melting pot of modern culture. Venerable Man Ya (47), who joined the temple at […]
When Steve Gibson’s website was repeatedly attacked by a hacker, he discovered a secret society of cyber-anarchists. Stuart Millar reports In one corner, Steve Gibson, world-renowned computer security expert with his own research corporation, regular adviser to the United States federal authorities and former child genius. In the other, a 13-year-old amateur hacker with a […]
It is 25 years since the Soweto uprising. Jeremy Baskin examines three new books that reflect on that seismic event Where were you on June 16 1976? The question has an iconic status among South Africans of a certain age, the way Americans remember where they were when JF Kennedy was shot. Three new books […]
Ntuthuko Maphumulo soccer Bafana Bafana and The Democratic Republic of Congo have both already qualified for the African Cup of Nations finals in Mali next year and the match between the sides at King’s Park in Durban on Sunday afternoon is being billed as a “celebration”. But the home team will be playing for more […]