Gwyn Topham discovers the Web’s answer to Egoli If Web-based digital entertainment to date has generally consisted of little more than dancing hamsters or slapping a Spice Girl, all is set to change with Freeserve’s move to bring custom-made Net drama to a browser near you. Online Caroline, which appeared yesterday for the first time […]
Iden Wetherell CROSSFIRE ‘African regional leaders have rallied behind President Robert Mugabe and Zimbabwe’s principled stance on land,” crowed Harare’s Sunday Mail – the ruling Zanu-PF party’s main mouthpiece – after the Victoria Falls talks where Mugabe met with three neighbouring heads of state last weekend. This triumphalist message was reinforced by Minister of Information […]
Grant Shimmin OLYMPICS But for one slight problem, Brendon Dedekind would be ideally placed to step into the gulf left by the injured Bobby Skinstad as the poster boy of South African sport. He’s got it all – bar a stud through his tongue – striking good looks, a torso you’d struggle to push a […]
The post-Nyerere Tanzania is returning to a bustling capitalism, but there are signs of further colonialism John Matshikiza ‘Many years ago,” says my friend Juma, “Mwalimu [Julius Nyerere] didn’t allow any of these kind of businesses. He only allowed state shops. Now you see small shops everywhere.” It’s odd. I don’t feel that old. But […]
Franco Barchiesi ELITE TRANSITION: FROM APARTHEID TO NEOLIBERALISM IN SOUTH AFRICA by Patrick Bond (Pluto/University of Natal Press) Studies of the South African democratic transition have seen in the past few years the consolidation of a powerful, academically established orthodoxy, whereby studies of a progressive, social- democratic origin have risen to prominence. Notable among these […]
Howard Barrell OVER A BARREL The first secretary general of the United Nations, who had the rather unfortunate name Trygve Lie, once remarked that a “real diplomat is one who can cut his neighbour’s throat without having his neighbour notice it”. None of us is privy to what happened at the summit at Victoria Falls […]
sector Glenda Daniels The National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) president, James Motlatsi, who stepped down at the union’s 10th national congress in Pretoria this week, is expected to join the Mine Workers Investment Company. The union would not confirm Motlatsi’s move to the private sector, but sources said this was the case. The veteran trade […]
Fossil remains first discovered five years ago were presented to the world this week Elisabeth Lickindorf Sensational fossil remains presented this week at Wits University have been dubbed Orpheus and Eurydice by their discoverer, Dr Andr Keyser, “because they came from the underworld”. The remains were stumbled upon by amateur helpers volunteering on a dig […]
ANDREW MUCHINERIPI, Johannesburg | Friday 3.00pm BAFANA coach Trott Moloto’s late naming of his squad for the Cosafa Cup match against Lesotho has had two casualties in more club-versus-country rows. His surprise recall to Switzerland-based striker George Koumantarakis has been turned down by his club Basle, while Free State wing back Thembe Seli will also […]
ANDREW MUCHINERIPI, Pretoria | Friday 11.00am THERE was a big win for Orlando Pirates, a little win for Kaizer Chiefs and a thrilling draw between Free State Stars and SuperSport United when the dust had settled on the Wednesday night Castle Premiership action. Pirates were five goals ahead of hapless Mother City within 35 minutes […]