His body wracked by drugs, Diego Maradona would love to return home to a quiet life – but it will never happen Simon Kuper ‘It was as if we had beaten a country, more than just a football team,” writes Diego Maradona in his new autobiography. “Although we had said before the game that football […]

Matthew Engel in the city going crazy over a game of baseball If you wander around the cheapo art shops on Seventh or Eighth Avenue in Manhattan, you can probably still find a framed print of the famous old New Yorker cover which plays tricks with perspective to depict the world as seen from the […]

David Le Page The abundance of unscrupulous players in the fitness industry, and its failure to set about self-regulation, could make life a lot tougher for the new owners of the Health and Racquet Club (H&RC), whoever they may be. The Department of Trade and Industry has proposed regulations in terms of the Unfair Business […]

Lehlohonolo Shale Buchaki Theatre’s projects have always had the ability to infuse comedy in order to penetrate some of our social taboos – principally betrayal in relationships. This is the line that runs through Wrong Day, its current offering at Hillbrow’s Windybrow Theatre. Formed during the turmoil of the Eighties, the company produced some of […]

Rupert Neethling Invasion of privacy is a hotly debated topic on the Web. Which is not surprising, since surfers’ personal details are of interest to anyone from government agencies to marketers. This may not be a big deal to many users, but it is the debate between privacy advocates and marketers, in particular, which is […]

Ten people were killed on the R66 route to Eshowe in KwaZulu-Natal after a taxi driver allegedly overtook on a barrier line in rainy conditions and crashed head-on with an oncoming truck. Five men, including the taxi driver, and five women died instantly. Four other women were taken to hospital in a serious condition. The […]

FIVE more people have died of the deadly Ebola virus in northern Uganda, bringing the death toll in the latest outbreak to 69. The total number of cases of known victims of the gruesome disease also rose by nine to 191. However, 73 people are known to have recovered from Ebola, a viral disease which […]

PRODUCTS from the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (Comesa) trade bloc still find it difficult to penetrate the EU market despite an existing trade arrangement with African, Carribean and Pacific (ACP) nations, a Comesa official said this week. Erastus Mwencha, Comesa secretary general, urged Comesa members at a meeting of the ACP-EU Contonou […]

PRO-GOVERNMENT south Sudanese militia have razed three camps of the rebel Sudan People’s Liberation Army (SPLA) in the south-east, killing at least 53 rebels. The militia, identified as “Peace Forces,” destroyed equipment, killed 53 rebels and forced the remaining SPLA men to flee into the bush, the state-owned Al-Anbaa daily newspaper reported. The SPLA has […]

innovations Handspring is taking its range of personal digital assistants (PDAs) upmarket with a pair of highly specified new models. Available from Handspring’s website now (www.handspring.com) and due in the stores in November are the company’s first colour PDA, the $449 Handspring Visor Prism, and its fastest model, the $299 Handspring Visor Platinum. The products […]