The longer you wait before you buy life insurance, the more it’s likely to cost you Judy Barnes One of the most important things you will ever undertake before shuffling off this mortal coil is purchasing life assurance. It’s a process likely to be complicated as everyone you know attempts to advise. Because our date […]
Charlene Smith In 1995 (when 35 000 rapes were reported) the Human Sciences Research Council reported that South Africa had 149,5 rapes per 100E000 population, compared to 34,4 rapes per 100E000 in the United States. The danger of being raped is five times higher in South Africa than in the US. According to rape homicide […]
Barry Streek Production of maize in the former homelands last year fell to its lowest level in six years. Minister of Agriculture and Land Affairs Thoko Didiza told Parliament this week that during the 1999/2000 financial year, more hectares of maize were planted than in previous years, but only 415 729 tonnes were produced, and […]
Andy Capostagno RUGBY It was only a matter of time, really. South African rugby is in crisis, let’s find a scapegoat and ask Louis Luyt, if he’s not doing anything important, whether he would like to ride to the rescue. Things have been entirely too stable in the corridors of power, it’s time for the […]
Nearly half the illegal immigrants on a repatriation train last week jumped off before it arrived in Mozambique Khadija Magardie It’s early morning on the repatriation train to Mozambique, and police Captain Pieter Cloete, clad in a T-shirt and sleeping shorts, is running bewildered through the carriages. “Where are all the people?” he shouts – […]
Ex-prisoner 885/63 revisits Robben Island as his book on the subject is reissued Henk Rossouw When Indres Naidoo returned from exile, his nephew handed him a tattered photocopy of his memoir, banned in 1982. “It was still full of curry marks,” chuckled Naidoo as we drove down to the harbour to catch the early ferry […]
Howard Barrell and Jaspreet Kindra Jeff Radebe, minister of public enterprises, misled the Human Rights Commission (HRC) on Wednesday when he presented the submission of the African National Congress to the HRC’s public hearings on the media. Radebe told the HRC panel that Phillip van Niekerk, editor of the Mail & Guardian, wrote an article […]
Neil Manthorp CRICKET Herschelle Gibbs is to the South African cricket team what a glass of Eno is to the nocturnally reckless come the morning after – a welcome shot of effervescence and bubble. He’s the one who keeps the guys going when tours start disappearing over the psychological horizon; he’s the tension- breaker on […]
Deon Potgieter BOXING Tsietse Maretloane etched his name in the history books on November 14 1977 when he became South Africa’s first “supreme” featherweight national champion. The bout was a unification of the black and white national titles. Maretloane is a former minister who has turned his hand to promoting boxing. He seeks to honour […]
The first place a visitor normally looks for in any city is a good caf, where you can catch the spirit of the city while lingering over a cup. We look at the ten best in the world and five in South Africa Sarah Turner 1 Vienna – Braunerhof, Backerstrasse 9: A trip to Demels, […]