To paraphrase from a character in one of Toni Morrison’s great novels: “The trouble with these people is that they just don’t know when to stop.” OK, I admit it, I’m still smarting. Sitting in the centre of the African continent, staring out at its myriad wonders, I find myself still smouldering like the magnificently […]
Up to 25-million people are infected with Aids in Africa, according to the United Nations Aids Programme Khadija Magardie The continent with the highest number of people with Aids was chosen to host the 13th International Aids Conference. Altogether, there are now 16 countries in Africa in which more than one-tenth of the adult population […]
Guy Willoughby ‘I saw this medieval woodcut of Adam and Eve at the tree of knowledge. Beneath the tree there’s an ape picking up an apple, a windfall, wanting to eat of the tree as well … Is this inexcusable, or ghastly and bizarre? That is the moment in which our play takes shape.” Basil […]
Angus Begg Cruising through the quiet Mpumalanga highlands town of Machadodorp, you’d be forgiven for thinking that the entire town had just attended its own funeral. Unemployed youths linger around the general dealer in trademark fashion, an attractive, period-piece church stands as a landmark in the town centre and an assortment of 4×4 vehicles pass […]
affair Andrew Muchineripi SOCCER Amid all the hype and hope of the 2006 World Cup bid, it was all too easy to forget that there is the small matter of an important qualifying match for the 2002 World Cup on Sunday. Bafana Bafana travel to Harare on Saturday for a Group E showdown with Zimbabwe […]
Can Europe see beyond its own nose? We fear not. Can Germany conceive of interests more important than its own greedy aggrandizement? It seems not. Is the rich north able to grasp the paradox that, by sharing things around a little, it may enrich not merely the rest of the world but, also, itself? Evidently […]
multiparty democracy Ebrahim Harvey left field The increasing convergence between the ruling African National Congress and the state, similar to National Party rule before, represents dangers for our infant and fragile democracy. This is so in spite of the fact that white racist rule is gone and we have had a non-racial democracy since 1994. […]
Margaret Court has no time to practise now she’s preaching Jon Henderson Margaret Court, one of the great Wimbledon campaigners, stepped back on to Centre Court last week for the first time since her playing days. Or, to be more precise, it was the Reverend Margaret Court who returned to the world’s most pampered patch […]
The high price of anti-Aids drugs, socio- economic issues, wars, disrupted family lives, untreated sexual diseases and now possible genetic mutations – all factors in the epidemic that is Aids Ready for a fight: The Zimbabwean Movement for Democratic Change, which announced it will challenge 27 of the 62 seats Zanu-PF won in last month’s […]
Two former Durbanites are on an epic motorcycle trip that started in New York 15 months ago and is still far from finished Gavin Foster ‘I was in New York, working on Wall Street, when Noah sent me an e-mail from London, where he was living,” remembers Trevor Sproat. “He suggested that it was time […]