This month Pieter-Dirk Uys takes his Aids education mission to a higher level Marianne Merten Who will ever forget the biting satire of Pieter-Dirk Uys’s PW Botha and his wagging finger that elicited laughter during the harshest apartheid years? Or Evita Bezuidenhout, the glamorous ambassador to Bapetikosweti, who turned homeland politics upside down. And the […]

John Barker Despite the heady trillion-dollar predictions for e-commerce, the reality is that life is hard for dot.com companies. The promise of great riches has produced hordes of wannabe sites, often grossly over-funded but run by inexperienced people. Even worse, the bricks and mortar outlets are starting to fight back. In this situation you can […]

Thebe Mabanga in your ear The battle for the hearts and minds of South Africa’s 28-million adults has spawned an industry that in 1999 attracted advertising worth R4,3-billion. According to a report by PriceWaterhouseCoopers, between 1995 and 1999 returns on capital invested in the entertainment and media declined by 34%. But taken at face value, […]

Class will out in the Currie Cup and the top sides have made it through to this weekend’s semifinals Andy Capostagno The rugby season that began on Friday February 25 is almost over. Those players who do not make Harry Viljoen’s Springbok touring squad of 40 can look forward to at least two months that […]

A RURAL traditional healer has been arrested on allegations that he kidnapped and kept a teenager as a sex slave for five days in Northern Province. The 43-year-old man was arrested after the 14-year-old girl’s family members, who were afraid to fetch her, reported the matter to police doing patrols in the area. She told […]

DUMISANE LUBISI and OWN CORRESPONDENT, Pietersburg | Friday A PIETERSBURG brother and sister’s 20-year incestuous relationship – which produced two children – has been exposed after their younger brother spilled the beans after a blazing family row. Police say the man is in his early 40s and his sister in her late 30s. They have […]

HOWARD BARRELL, Johannesburg | Friday PRESIDENT Thabo Mbeki’s standing among South Africans has plummeted in recent months, according to the results of a wide-ranging public opinion poll released this week. Only one in two South Africans (50,2%) approves of the job he is doing, according to a survey by the Institute for Democracy in South […]

SOME of the 2.76bn pounds allegedly looted from Nigeria by the late dictator Sani Abacha has been traced to bank offices in London, the Financial Times has reported. According to the newspaper, investigators employed by Nigeria’s president Olusegun Obasanjo believe Abacha used the London offices of the banks to launder the cash. The banks, including […]

In Africa, where you lay your hat is not necessarily your home, writes Arthur Maimane Robert Gue

David Beresford Another Country As a student I turned up at my favourite pub one evening to find myself banned from the premises for having danced on the tables the night before. I had not been there the night before and I had not danced on the tables (although I subsequently made a point of […]