Marianne Merten soccer The National Soccer League (NSL) has six months to change its regulations on player transfers to bring its rules in line with the Constitution. The Cape High Court this week ruled as “inconsistent with the Constitution of South Africa” those NSL regulations prohibiting players from becoming free agents once their contracts with […]

Xolamzi ka Sam A SECOND LOOK Thuli Nhlapo’s article, “Colour me yellow” (November 17 to 23), made me cry for her, for myself and for the others out there, who have been labelled and called names. What really got to me was when Thuli said that “since my attempts to be accepted were unsuccessful, I […]

Simon Singh E=mc2: A BIOGRAPHY OF THE WORLD’S MOST FAMOUS EQUATION by David Bodanis (Macmillan) After a magazine interview, Hollywood actress Cameron Diaz was asked if there was anything she wanted to know. “Yeah,” said Diaz, “what does E=mc 2 really mean?” The journalist laughed, but Diaz reiterated that she really did want to know […]

The Bafokeng are sitting pretty, fuelled by the millions made off the mineral rights to platinum on their land Khadija Magardie The fame of Phokeng “The Place of the Dew”, a township 5km outside Rustenburg, in the Northern Province, stretches way beyond its borders. It is said that Phokeng’s streets, which eventually become the road […]

‘Free as the air we breathe’ Could a United Kingdom model for digital community networking be applied in South Africa? Sean Dodson Using an aerial, a lightning conductor, a floppy disk and a microwave transceiver little bigger than a credit card, a pair of techies are hoping to beat the world’s big telecommunication companies and […]

Richard Spoor’s e-mail about being spanked by MTN’s Jacques Sellschop (as published in Krisjan Lemmer, December 1 to 7) brought back a flood of memories. Though I was fortunate enough not to have been on the receiving end of his cane, I can recall vividly the day he “flapped” three boys in front of our […]

Ntuthuko Maphumulo soccer This year has not been kind to South African soccer, from losing the 2006 World Cup bid to the violence that marred Banyana Banyana’s loss to the Super Falcons of Nigeria in the final of the African Women’s Championship at Vosloorus. Hopefully the South African under-20 team can break the hoodoo. They […]

Steve Whiting in Christchurch England’s eight-wicket win over Ireland in the Women’s World Cup on Thursday moves them back into the top four semifinal places and puts the pressure on South Africa to take maximum points from Sri Lanka on Friday. As former captain Kim Price says: “We are behind England now, but it is […]

Ten lucky readers can each win a hamper of Justine skincare products to the value R1?000. Justine is one of the sponsors of the Miss South Africa pageant. The hampers will go to the first 10 readers to correctly identify the 1973 winner of the Miss Africa South pageant featured on the cover of Friday. […]

Jane Rosenthal Chameleon on the Gallows by C Louis Leipoldt (Human & Rousseau) This novel, written in 1929, was the first of what CLouis Leipoldt conceived of as a trilogy. This is the first time it has been published, in conjunction with a new paperback of its sequel, Stormwrack (first published in 1980; both were […]