Every music legend deserves a good pilgrimage. Jimi Hendrix fan Hugh Clench visits the state-of-the-art museum inspired by the guitar hero who died 30 years ago If, like me, you are old enough, and committed enough, to have seen Jimi Hendrix play live more than once, then you’ll know the significance of September 18 1970. […]

Howard Barrell and Barry Streek A former Cabinet minister is named on the Internet as having received R10-million for facilitating the purchase of corvettes from Germany in South Africa’s controversial R43,8-billion arms deal. The local and foreign websites also name a senior African National Congress MP as having been one of a group of South […]

Neal Collins soccer Lucas Radebe this week likened rumours of inducements to perform well in European soccer matches to the Hansie Cronje match-fixing scandal. The Leeds United and Bafana captain was upset by offers allegedly made to Milan’s players by Barcelona. The Spanish club was accused of offering Milan 1,6-million to beat Leeds in the […]

Niki Moore The controversial handover of land to the Mbangweni community at the Ndumo Game Reserve on the Mozambique border in Maputaland has been put on hold indefinitely, according to a statement issued by the Land Claims Commission. But according to a source inside regional land claim commissioner Thabi Shange’s department, the signing over of […]

Scandal and retirements have changed the face of the South African team – but not its heart Peter Robinson Not everyone will see it this way, but common sense at last managed to infect the South African team this week when Daryll Cullinan and Jonty Rhodes were allowed to take decisions that affected their own […]

Di Soutter Capetonian Judy Walsh (34) was in court in Ireland last week when her father was sentenced to 52 years’ imprisonment for repeatedly raping and violently assaulting her sexually when she was a child. Noel Walsh (55) of Dublin will serve an effective 131/2-year prison term – one of the heaviest penalties ever handed […]

Howard Barrell The success of South Africa’s efforts to recover its international standing of eight months ago could depend substantially on whether Republican George Bush or Democrat Al Gore grabs the knife- edge United States presidential election, which now turns on a few hundred votes in the state of Florida. Foreign affairs commentators, among them […]

state Rhoda Kadalie crossfire Glenda Daniels captures very eloquently in ”Give us a good reason to vote”(October 27 to November 2) the sentiments of people on the left about voting for the African National Congress in the next election. She mentions her lack of confidence in her party; that to abstain from voting is to […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Thursday THE South African rand has fallen to a record low of 7.76 against the US dollar on Thursday on the back of a weaker euro and jitters surrounding Argentina’s steep interest rate hike. The rand dipped to new lows as the euro – the currency of South Africa’s major trading […]

SWAZILAND’S three most powerful labour unions have called for a two day general strike next week to force the kingdom ‘s monarchist government to accept pro-democracy political reforms. The strike on November 13 and 14 is the latest protest in an escalating public campaign designed to force absolute monarch King Mswati III to repeal a […]