Barbara Ellen Body Language More and more over the past 12 months, IOve found myself bearing witness to lesbian comings out. Or should I say, listening to drunk women tell me theyOre Oso sickO of guys, theyOre Oseriously consideringO becoming lesbians. OWhy not? Why not, I ask you?O the latest one cried the other evening. […]
Get the best out of your Internet service provider David Mallinson Some things are easier to get into than out of. Subscribing to an ISP (Internet Service Provider) is one of these things. The problem is that many people discover what they really want from an ISP only after subscribing (possibly to an unsuitable one). […]
Andrew Muchineripi soccer After winning the Castle Premiership for three consecutive seasons, Sundowns Football Club have decided the time has arrived to raise their sights a little bit higher. The natural progression from being champions of a country is to become champions of a continent and that is what the Pretoria-based club has set its […]
CHILD-PORN accused Leon van Nierop’s services as an SABC continuity announcer have been suspended pending the outcome of his court case. The SABC has also suspended van Nierop’s movie review show Fliekflikkers, but they’ve decided to continue broadcasting the series Stralerjakkers, which he wrote and directed. Van Nierop, 47, was arrested on Monday along with […]
Chris Dunton Born in South Africa, Beverley Naidoo went into exile in Britain in 1965. There she became a children+s writer and educationalist. Like all her four novels to date, her first book, Journey to Jo+burg, combined an exciting plot with uncompromising realism. A -discovery+ story, it took in subject-matter such as rural poverty, student […]
Former president Nelson Mandela has been asked to mediate in the Middle East peace process.
Ebrahim Harvey Left field In the first article that I wrote for this paper a year ago, I stated: OThe ANC is on a collision course with its own support base and could suffer come the 2004 election.O This view, expressing the negative impact that the economic policies of the ruling party has on the […]
Alexander Sudheim THEATRE Ever since Darwin claimed them as our kin, man+s fascination with the ape has been a deep and divided one. The idea that we humans, the supreme species on the planet, may have links to the missing link closer than many might consider comfortable, inspires revulsion in some and enthrallment in others. […]
E-mail virus warnings spread as fast as the viruses themselves but are often only hoaxes Rupert Neethling Alarm at the prospect of a new computer virus is both healthy and justified. But it seems that many users have yet to discover that not all virus warnings are true. Ironically, e-mail hoaxes posing as virus warnings […]
Brenda Atkinson crossfire While the idea of woman-hatred is commonplace and spans most cultures, hatred of men is generally considered the narrow preserve of embittered radical lesbians and the odd feminist. On the surface of things, director Catherine BreillatOs controversial and infinitely subversive film Romance demands that equivalent term, misandry: the message it conveys about […]