Namibia Tangeni Amupadhi Just when it seemed as if cross-border attacks on north- eastern Namibia by Angolan gunmen had stopped, the killing has started again. At least three people were killed and close to half a dozen have been injured in the past three weeks in the Kavango region, following a month-long lull in raids […]
Deon Potgieter BOXING Realising early on in his career the importance of having an image in boxing, Charles Mailula opted to wear a cowboy hat when entering and leaving the ring. Is it merely a coincidence or perhaps an omen that when he challenges for the World Boxing Union junior featherweight world title this Saturday, […]
Andrew Muchineripi SOCCER To most countries in Southern Africa the Castle Cup is manna from heaven, a rare opportunity for cash- strapped football associations to make money while spending none as the brewer foots travel and accommodation bills. For South Africa it is less of a blessing because the national association is extremely wealthy by […]
Glenda Daniels While a lower-level employee at the African National Congress headquarters said last week she was looking for another job because she did not get an increase this year and earns only R2 600 after tax, ministers who earn about R40 000 a month got a 10% increase. Top ANC officials such as secretary […]
Glenda Daniels A senior official of the National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (Numsa) has been dismissed for criticising the union’s handling of a strike amid claims by some of his colleagues that he was targeted for being too left wing. Dinga Sikwebu, who has been nominated for the post of general secretary, was […]
July 20 is the 75th anniversary of his birth. Richard Pithouse reflects, from Durban, on the unusually heroic life of a brilliant intellectual When McDonald’s opened their first branch in Durban a local business columnist read the landing of the empty smile and iconic arches in Old Fort Road as an advance blessing from the […]
Edward de Bono is a leading authority on communication. So why is he so bad at conversation? Emma Brockes Edward de Bono, inventor of lateral thinking and a man who regards himself as a more powerful visionary than Plato, is outlining his plans for our interview. We are in his ground-floor flat in Albany, the […]
The Tiger Woods star treatment extends even to the entourage Jamie Wilson There was only one show in town last weekend and everybody wanted a piece of Team Tiger. Even the autograph of the world number one’s caddie, Steve Williams, reputed to be the highest-paid New Zealand sports star through his association with Woods, was […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Friday 10.00am. SHAREHOLDERS in Nando’s, the fast food chain, voted overwhelmingly in favour of a controversial merger between Nando’s Group Holdings and its loss recording offshore operations, controlled by Nando’s chairperson Robbie Brozin. Critics including some Nando’s shareholders said that the deal was designed to salvage Brozin’s interests and protect them […]
Riaan Wolmarans The massive Oppikoppi August music festival is this year expanding more than just the size of the stages – a separate festival is taking place near Worcester and an exchange programme is bringing Belgian musicians to this country. The arrangement between Oppikoppi and the organisers of the Pukkelpop festival in Belgium, which attracts […]