innovations An altogether new kind of Internet service has been created by Hypersend, for those occasions when you need to get a top priority document – of large proportions – from A to B without the delays and security risks involved in sending it via e-mail. The service simply requires you and the receiver to […]

After many years in the football wilderness, Lamontville Golden Arrows have been promoted to the Premier Soccer League Merryman Kunene If Lamontville Golden Arrows’ ascendancy to the Premier Soccer League was a straight- forward issue of clinching the MTN First Division Coastal Stream crown, then staying in the company of the elite boys will require […]

weapons deal Director Keith Mokoape’s personal stake in this lucrative deal is the latest in a series of scandals surrounding South Africa’s arms procurement Ivor Powell A director of the South African defence parastatal Armscor and former head of African National Congress military intelligence is the head of a newly formed company that stands to […]

National Women’s Day is important in continuing the struggle for women’s emancipation Baleka Mbete Seeing the veterans of the 1956 march on the Union Buildings on National Women’s Day had an invigorating effect. For as long as women do not yet enjoy most or all their human rights, we need National Women’s Day. This day […]

Home affairs botches permits for Mother Theresa’s missionaries Marianne Merten The government has given marching orders to three nuns of the late Mother Teresa’s Missionaries of Charity, who have been running an HIV/Aids care centre in Khayelitsha outside Cape Town. One Mission of Charity sister has been told to leave in January; another in July […]

Andy Capostagno GOLF This has been an Oedipal year for professional golf. Before the new millennium was ushered in we knew Tiger Woods was good, but we didn’t know how good. Now Ernie Els has summed up the talent of the man by admitting that every other pro golfer on the planet is living in […]

rights Liesl Gerntholtz There can be little doubt that women have made great strides since 1994. We have seen a large number of laws put into place to empower women and improve their status. As Nohlanhla Mjoli-Mncube says: “Gender equality is receiving more attention than in any other period in the history of South Africa. […]

Neil Williams HATE NO MORE by Arthur Maimane (Kwela) This novel reflects a reality that creates ripples of destruction – ripples of destruction that occur both in the characters in the novel and the reader, who reacts with horror to some of its events. It examines the madness created by ideology. In present-day post-apartheid South […]

Howard Barrell over a barrel I have spent several days this week trying to understand the basis on which Thabo Mbeki says Tony Leon is a racist. I have read, reread and read again the speech in which Mbeki did so – the second Oliver Tambo Lecture, delivered in Johannesburg last Friday. I have enlisted […]

cut off James Hall A Swazi man who instructed a traditional healer to cut off his wife’s clitoris has been fined R120 by a traditional court – a fine his wife, who almost bled to death, ended up paying. The case has sparked debate about the judgement of conservative elders who hear cases involving abused […]