Tracy McVeigh Body Language One of the world’s most revered scientists has developed a theory that fat people are happier than thin ones. James Watson, the Nobel Prize-winning geneticist who was jointly responsible for discovering the structure of DNA, believes that plumper women are also likely to enjoy a better sex life than their thin […]
INNOVATIONS There’s long been software available to do personal make-overs – hair, make-up and so on – but like many software applications, this one has now found its way online, at www.makeover.com. You can upload your own photo (or use that of a model with similar looks) and try out different hairstyles, different make-up combinations […]
Paul Kirk and Marianne Merten The man hired by Golden Arrow buses to provide security to its besieged drivers is the KwaZulu-Natal hotel owner who allegedly offered a security guard money to withdraw a rape charge against tycoon Jonty Sandler. Norman Reeves, the managing director of the Combat Group of Companies, is a former regimental […]
Tom Cox CD OFTHEWEEK Masquerading as the best bar band in the world, The Jayhawks, for anyone who’s actually played their last three albums more than once, are in fact trail-blazing studio scientists: the most complex of all the alternative country bands. The fact that they were written off as too “straightforward” and “trad” seems […]
Jeremy Cronin Crossfire The newly launched Democratic Alliance (DA), dominated as it is by Tony Leon’s party, represents two not entirely converging impulses found in the Democratic Party. On the one hand there is the electoral juggernaut that quite shamelessly stirs the racial phobias of minority constituencies. On the other, there is the DP’s Thatcherite […]
Peter Dickson With most of the land still in private hands and R40-million spent on the development model for the Coega industrial development zone, Portnet and the Coega Development Corporation (CDC) are using a worldwide study tour for a costly, last- minute rethink on the Eastern Cape’s “economic miracle”. Meanwhile, back home, South Africa’s leading […]
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 […]