The new-look, Cat-filled Springboks are in for a mauling in the Mandela Trophy Andy Capostagno The Stormers failed so let’s try the Cats. That’s the implication behind Nick Mallett’s selection for the Mandela Challenge at the Colonial Stadium in Melbourne on Saturday. Out go Pieter Rossouw (at last), De Wet Barry, Braam van Straaten and […]

stealing R7m Evidence wa ka Ngobeni Norman Knight, one of the doyens of South Africa’s pharmaceutical industry, has been sentenced to five years in prison for stealing more than R7-million while working for his former employer, the Premier Group. Knight, who has instructed his Mpumalanga legal firm to appeal against the judgement, has been convicted […]

Kathryn Smith Consumers entering or exiting various shopping meccas in Johannesburg and its immediate peripheries last Saturday morning were likely to be accosted by a different sort of panhandler. The sort that gives you something. Pupils from Alexandra, Soweto and Hillbrow formed colourful chorus lines (in costumes designed by Preston van Wyk from World’s End […]

David Beresford Another Country Some years ago, trying to get an interview with the Rain Queen, I was persuaded to have a lesser sangoma (male) throw the bones for me in a hill-side kraal near Duiwels Kloof, in the northern Transvaal. I was seated in a position from which I could look out the door […]

Julia Hartley-Brewer More than 500 years after Leonardo da Vinci sketched his design, a Briton has proved that the Renaissance genius was the inventor of the first working parachute. Adrian Nicholas, a 38-year-old skydiver from London, fulfilled his life’s ambition to prove the aerodynamics experts wrong when he used a parachute based on Da Vinci’s […]

Moses Isegawa’s first novel has drawn lavish praise. Soon to visit South Africa, he speaks to Brenda Atkinson In Abyssinian Chronicles (Picador), debut novelist Moses Isegawa has written an opus to which the usual superlatives apply: it is a rich and perfectly measured tale of contemporary Uganda, a story that grips with the ambiguous allure […]

THE Tanzanian government has stopped importing chloroquin because of the increased resistance of the malaria-causing parasites to the drug. Deputy Health Minister Tatu Ntimizi has said. Ntimizi told parliament at Dodoma in central Tanzania on Tuesday that government-owned medical stores were no longer mporting chloroquin anti-malarials. Official records show that Malaria is Tanzania’s leading killer […]

GLENDA DANIELS, Johannesburg. The Mineworkers Development Agency, the job-creation wing of the National Union of Mines, is one of the few financially sustainable organisations in South Africa. In the face of massive job losses in the mining industry, about 300 000 over the past decade, the agency has developed a programme of support for enterprise […]

PUBLIC Service & Administration Minister Geraldine Fraser-Moleketi said on Sunday that government is willing to negotiate employee benefits with public service unions but will not budge from its 6% salary increase across the board. “The 6% offer on the salary increase is final, but we are open to discussion on areas related to benefits.” Most […]