destructing Mercedes Sayagues The owners of the town house I rent ring early on Monday morning. Their neighbour Allen Dunn was tortured and killed by a hit squad Sunday afternoon on his farm in Beatrice, 40km from Harare. Can I vacate the house in two days? They are panicking. My mouse crashed on the floor. […]
As the HIV/Aids crisis in the region deepens, it is adding to the social decay in Zimbabwe Mercedes Sayagues Zimbabwe was billed as a peaceful country, with low crime and racial tension – far safer than South Africa. A constitutional referendum took place in February without any violence. Today, mob rule and terror reign. How […]
Neil Thomas I very much admired the way Lastminute.com co-founder Martha Lane Fox stuck to her guns on a television programme last week. When gently sautd rather than grilled over the pricing of the flotation of Lastminute, she admirably stuck by the decision to float at that level and managed, in the space of a […]
crown Deon Potgieter BOXING On May 24 Baby Jake Matlala will attempt to become the first South African boxer to win four world titles, and that in two weight divisions. He will be challenging the tough and tenacious Peter Culshaw for the World Boxing Union (WBU) flyweight world title. Pushing him on, however, is not […]
M&G reporter British banks last week launched a scheme to reunite Holocaust victims and their heirs with money frozen in United Kingdom accounts since World War II. The British Bankers’ Association (BBA) has published names of 10 800 dormant bank accounts holding 2,8-million frozen during the war to prevent the cash reaching enemy hands. The […]
Jean Spear Microlighting is like being on a scrambler, 600m up. There is something only a microlight pilot can describe about being so high, so vulnerable, with the wind in your face and the ocean below your feet. That’s because the passenger is too busy screaming and trying to breathe. “This is proper flying,” says […]
globalisation A view from the US on how the most important international economic institutions bleed the world’s poorest countries dry Mark Weisbrot On December 1 1999, as clouds of tear gas hovered over the streets of Seattle, President Bill Clinton said yes to 50E000 protesters when he wanted to say no. He agreed to make […]
champions Bob Fisher Miscrosoft founder Bill Gates is bankrolling a multimillion-dollar bid by the United States to persuade the world sailing champions to abandon their native New Zealand and instead race under the Stars and Stripes. As well as money, the US is promising American citizenship to the New Zealand crew, holders of the prestigious […]
Ivor Powell The SABC’s chief executive, the Reverend Hawu Mbatha, was axed this week as a major restructuring of the troubled corporation’s top management kicked into action. Senior sources in the public broadcaster said that a letter amounting to a dismissal was sent this week to Mbatha under the signature of SABC board chair Dr […]
Luvuyo Kakaza CD OFTHEWEEK Busi Mhlongo’s second album, Urban Zulu, released five years after her debut, Babemu, held the number-one hot spot for two hard-hitting months in the world charts, edging ahead of notable veteran Afro-beat stars such as Congolese virtuoso composer Ray Lema and Femi Kuti. Now with the release of Urban Zulu: The […]