A FUEL fire erupted again at the scene of the blaze in which more than 250 people died this week while villagers risked their lives scooping fuel still gushing from the vandalised duct. Flames leapt eight metres into the sky and a huge column of smoke billowed into the air above the village of Ovire […]
POLICE ‘arrested’ an escaped penguin waddling down a railway line at Cape Town station. A police spokesperson said it was believed the penguin had escaped from the South African Foundation for the Conservation of Coastal Birds emergency cleaning station in an old railway shed at Salt River where birds contaminated by oil from the sunken […]
Johannesburg | Friday 11.00am. Zimbabwe’s electricity debt to Eskom has hit R126.9m some of which is more than three months over due and concern is rising that South Africa will be left bearing its northern neighbour’s debt burden. Zimbabwe is under contract to pay its power supply account within 45 days but some payments are […]
Capostagno golf Whether or not you enjoyed the 1999 Open Championship at Car-noustie rather depends on your view of professional golfers. If you share their view that the public wants to see birdies and eagles then you probably thought it was all a shocking waste of time. If on the other hand, you believe we […]
Andrew Muchineripi soccer The annual pre-season Iwisa Charity Spectacular competition was a noble idea with football giving desperately needed funds to some of the many less fortunate members of our society. There was also a novel method of choosing the four contestants with phone calls and letters from the public dictating who appeared before the […]
households Khadija Magardie Xolani Zungu (9) smiles shyly and unhesitatingly says, when asked what he wants to do when he grows up, that he wants to be a doctor. Like many boys his age, Xolani likes sweets, and playing with toy cars, and whispering behind the teacher’s back at school. But unlike his friends, he […]
More than 50% of the world’s population live in cities and a phenomenally higher percentage is projected by 2020 David Macfarlane and Glenda Daniels Globalisation has led to a crisis of poverty and social disintegration in cities around the world. Traditional cities as coherent spaces of communal interaction are being overtaken by metropolitan sprawls. Reconstructing […]
Matthew Krouse ‘Will those who want to see the Nguni spirit possession please proceed to level two …” the instruction rang out above the din of revellers who had come to launch the Urban Futures conference exhibitions programme. The halls of Newtown’s MuseuMAfrika, on July 10, had not seen anything quite like it before. Dried […]
The father of Venus and Serena has coached them into the history books. But his greatest achievement may have been to teach them there is more to life than tennis Richard Williams (no relation) and Duncan Campbell What he likes best is to get people off balance. One day he will be talking about buying […]
With Aids rampant and no cash for Western drugs, Africa is condemned to hopelessness and resentment Maggie O’Kane Malita Maxwell has Aids. But so does just about everybody else in the women’s ward of Chiradzulu hospital, with its broken air conditioner, smell of old, sweet urine and greasy mattresses covered in bright green plastic. In […]