Ebrahim Harvey CROSSFIRE At the outset I must make it clear that not only do I not represent this paper or work for it, but I also have some serious differences with the views of some of its columnists and editorials. However, the latest outrageous accusation of the ruling party against the paper compels me […]
WHAT’S NEW Missing toddlers and truanting teenagers could soon be things of the past with the development of a revolutionary satellite tracking system which willenable parents to keep an eye on their children 24 hours a day. A tiny gadget called KidBug will enable parents to monitor the movements of their children – and the […]
The squeaky-clean captain of South Africa has thrown the game into chaos. I’m not entirely bowled over Matthew Engel It was, as one sage put it this week, as if Queen Elizabeth had been caught fiddling her taxes. If anyone was making a book on the next cricketer to be exposed in a betting scandal, […]
Johann Kirsten CROSSFIRE Concerns about the viability and justification of the new approach to land reform by the Minister of Agriculture and Land Affairs, Thoko Didiza, have been raised since she announced her new approach in February. But Didiza’s new approach is an appropriate intervention when one considers that the land reform programme went off […]
Dermot Bolger has been pushing Irish literature for decades. Now his anthology of it has been expanded Nicholas Wroe Dermot Bolger wasn’t the only teenager with literary pretensions growing up in 1970s Dublin, but surely no others have had such a lasting influence on the modernisation of Irish literature. Instead of scribbling some embarrassing verse […]
Cameron Duodu LETTER FROM THE NORTH The British media have gone totally overboard over the Zimbabwe issue. No doubt because of President Robert Mugabe’s intemperate use of language – especially his unwise homophobic remarks, among others – he is being portrayed in a manner akin to the treatment received by Idi Amin of Uganda in […]
Liberia’s most famous export is not only great on the pitch, but a good guy off it Amy Lawrence It was an average Sunday afternoon. Semi- comatose on the sofa, half an eye on the Italian football on television. It was AC Milan versus Verona, nothing special, until with a couple of minutes to go […]
GALE-force winds off flood-battered Mozambique are expected to pound the southern coast and adjacent interior with up to 50mm of rain on Thursday, the South African Weather Bureau reports. It said the subtropical low-pressure system over the Indian Ocean could develop into a cyclone by Friday. Bureau spokesman Ewert Scholtz said it is quite late […]
Shaun de Waal Norman Catherine’s new show at the Goodman Gallery extends and recapitulates images that are familiar from his work over the last decade or so. This show is mostly sculpture, whereas his 1994 show (his last solo exhibition in South Africa) was chiefly painting, but the two media increasingly overlap for Catherine -his […]
Andrew Muchineripi SOCCER With Sundowns winning again in midweek and now just nine points away from a third consecutive Castle Premiership title, the Bob Save Super Bowl represents the sole hope of salvation for Orlando Pirates and Kaizer Chiefs. Not that Sundowns are going to let them have it all their own way, as they […]