Neal Collins cricket Today, I will talk of the tree. Not to the tree you understand. England may be losing regularly to Zimbabwe but I haven’t lost my sanity. Yet. The tree? There is only one worth talking about in cricket. You may have seen it on telly recently, while the West Indies were getting […]
Alex Clark Martin Bauman: A Novel by David Leavitt (Little, Brown) The confessional genre, the colossal growth area in non-fiction of recent years, has attracted a healthy readership and a rather unhealthy amount of critical disdain. Why, detractors protest, must writers shine a light on the shabby corners of their lives simply because they have […]
Nigella Lawson Body Language For the first time in years, someone asked me how many men I’d slept with. To tell the truth, I couldn’t remember. That’s not because my youth was spent in such an oblivious promiscuous whirl – I think I probably lack the promiscuity gene, although I don’t, either, claim a nun-like […]
Adrienne Carlisle More evidence is emerging from apartheid- era documents that the State Security Council (SSC), staffed by top apartheid politicians and securocrats, including former presidents PW Botha and FW de Klerk, may have discussed and, at least in principle, approved the assassinations of activists. The Mail & Guardian has obtained copies of top-secret minutes […]
Gear may soon be a thing of the past as the ANC debates what our new economic strategy should be Howard Barrell Yes, it appears it may really be happening. The seemingly endless – and little understood – economic debate about the government’s market-friendly macroeconomic policy may be coming to an end. Gear, the acronym […]
Belinda Beresford Hundreds of Cape Town penguins owe their lives to recycled cooking oil and a schoolboy inventor. Louis Kock was 17 when he developed and patented BD1, a chemical that helps strip crude oil from feathers. The product, which is produced from vegetable oil, is being used to clean the penguins caught in the […]
Outgoing Transnet managing director Saki Macozoma has ruled out any possibility of returning to full-time politics when his contract expires with the transport company next year. Macozoma, who announced last week that he will not seek renewal for his contract, this week said he was looking at spending most of his time at Standard Bank […]
Sechaba ka’Nkosi The SABC this month begins searching for someone to fill the country’s top media executive position – head of the public broadcaster’s beleaguered news department. The position is expected to be advertised soon, as well as the posts of CEO and chief financial officer. The news candidate is expected to harmonise what has […]
A UN report predicts that by 2015 Aids orphans will constitute between 9% and 12% of South Africa’s total population Charlene Smith The government will reach the point where it will not be able to train teachers fast enough to replace those who die from HIV/Aids. South African schoolchildren – sexually active as young as […]
Andrew Muchineripi soccer How do you react to an overcrowded fixture list that has resulted in probably the first 12-month soccer season in the world? You add another competition, of course. On Saturday at Johannesburg stadium, Kaizer Chiefs host Wits University in the first BP Top 8 quarter-final, followed 24 hours later by the clash […]