Martin Whiting Gerald Durrell: the Authorised Biography by Douglas Botting (HarperCollins) Douglas Botting, author of three other biographies including that of Gavin Maxwell (Ring of Bright Water), now provides a detailed account of the life of Gerald Durrell – conservationist, educator, writer and champion of endangered species and animals the world over. Best known for […]
sector cannot be avoided Claude van Cuyck Investors may be wary of the TMT (technology, media and telecoms) sector following Nasdaq volatility in the past six months, but it continues to be the fastest growing sector in the world and investors who ignore it will miss out. Sectors geared to the superhighway (TMT and electronics) […]
Neal Collins The very first helmet camera to hit British television screens belonged to Richard Johnson, a Grand National jockey, in 1998. Sadly, Johnson, riding a horse called Banjo, fell at the first fence. Though it was a spectacular crash where we saw turf, fence, sky and turf again, we were given no further glimpses […]
David Le Page The extremely cold weather that has hit the country this week may feel aberrant to most of us, but meteorologists and climate modellers are adamant that it’s nothing unusual. A cold front, or large and unpleasantly cold mass of moist air, moved across the Western Cape on Wednesday afternoon. Preceding it, along […]
Deregulation of the unit trust industry means that the small investor may have to pay more to management companies Sarah Bullen Earlier this year the unit trust industry was given the flexibility to restructure its products into different classes. As part of the deregulation of the industry, the Association of Unit Trusts (AUT) and the […]
The recent icy weather has added another danger to the many already faced by circumcision initiates Khadija Magardie Police in the Free State town of Bethlehem have opened a murder docket after three boys attending a circumcision school at nearby Frisgewag farm died of exposure. Temperatures in the area have plummeted during the recent spell […]
Andy Colquhoun in Christchurch It’s cold in Christchurch. The city clenches its shoulders against the freshening breeze coming off the Pacific or tumbling out of the freezer of the southern Alps. No one dawdles in the streets, the tables and chairs optimistically placed on the pavement by cafe proprietors sit empty. It’s as far from […]
Bill Elliot golf Five hundred years after it was first used for something that at least vaguely approached golf as we know it, the jury is still out on whether the Old Course at St Andrews is a work of erratic, supernatural genius or just an erratic work. Views vary from the reverential tone of […]
Jaspreet Kindra The African National Congress has launched a concerted effort to woo the Afrikaner community ahead of the local government elections. A sense of urgency has been added to the recruiting drive with the launch of the newly formed Democratic Alliance (DA) of the Democratic Party and the New National Party. The ANC is […]
The new book by Pamela Jooste, prize- winning author of Dance with a Poor Man’s Daughter, is out Shirley Kossick Like Water in Wild Places (Doubleday) is Pamela Jooste’s third novel, following the prize-winning Dance with a Poor Man’s Daughter (1998) and Frieda and Min (1999). Like Water in Wild Places tells the story of […]