Neal Collins soccer English Premiership side Leeds United have made an approach for South African striker Benni McCarthy on the recommendation of his Bafana Bafana captain, Lucas Radebe. Leeds coach David O’Leary, who paid a record 18-million for defender Rio Ferdinand last week, is desperate to sign a goal-getter, with Australian Harry Kewell and Michael […]

Standard computer equipment and software can often be the key to a better life for disabled people Mandy Collins Most of us take technology for granted we have computers at home and at work, we can access the Internet, we have smart cards, smart phones, palmtop organisers the list is endless. The future, too, is […]

Serjeant at the Bar Gilbert Marcus, SC, dealt most effectively with the complaints of Rex van Schalkwyk, once a judge of the supreme court (“Constitutional Court: A triumph over repression”, November 17 to 23). Hence the question as to why the need to traverse the same ground yet again. The reason is simple: Van Schalkwyk’s […]

Notes & Queries Who first described aristocratic blood as “blue” and why? n The warriors of Islam called the Moors (or more poetically by the lyrical name Blackamoors) ruled over most of Spain for five centuries.?Toward the end of their rule the Spanish aristocrats of Castile began to distinguish themselves from these darker-skinned people by […]

Valentine Cascarino It’s dawn on a weekday and Joubert Park, former playground of nocturnal romance, is already busy. Its occupants are homeless characters, lying flat on their stomachs a technique they claim relieves the incisive pains of hunger. Outside the grounds schoolkids muscle their way through boisterous taxi drivers and passengers while within the park […]

The Shangaan community in the Northern Province fears it will be sidelined in the municipality shake-up Evidence wa ka Ngobeni For the past two years Mzamani Mathebula has been queuing at Nandoni dam, an incomplete water reservoir project in the Northern Province, in search of employment. Mathebula, who has been unemployed for the past seven […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Harare | Friday AFRICA’S two most powerful nations, Nigeria and South Africa, have demanded that Zimbabwe abide by its laws in its controversial program to confiscate white-owned farms. Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo and South African President Thabo Mbeki, after two-and-a-half hours of talks with embattled President Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe, stopped short of […]

JUSTIN ARENSTEIN and SIZWE SAMAYENDE, Middelburg | Friday THE foot-and-mouth outbreak in Mpumalanga this week, which could drive the South African meat industry to the brink of disaster, could well have been caused by cattle imported from a neighbouring country. The outbreak, which has seen Swaziland close its border with South Africa for imports of […]

Anthea Johnston music Jazz, as everyone knows, started more than a century ago in the Deep South. In the early years of the 20th century jazz migrated north and settled in cities like New York and Chicago. It was always recognised as the United States’s unique contribution to music and is enjoyed by millions around […]

Steve Whiting cricket Aworld-record unbeaten ninth wicket partnership of 66 between Yolande van der Merwe and captain Kim Price could not prevent an eight-wicket loss as South Africa began their bid to be women’s world cricket champions with a difficult match against India in Christchurch, New Zealand, on Thursday. The South African total of 128 […]