mail Yazeed Kamaldien As South Africa continues to promote an international image of a country in transformation and reconciliation, most citizens of the world are confronted with a contradictory image on the website www.creativewebs.co.za/apologies/. Created in 1998 to encourage white South Africans to apologise to their black counterparts for the injustices the latter suffered during […]

Adam Sweeting When the American record industry dishes out its annual awards this month, all eyes will be on Carlos Santana, the 52- year-old guitarist who has been nominated for 10 Grammys. That would be a remarkable achievement in any circumstances, but only a year ago Santana was thought of as a 1970s throwback with […]

sale Mike Loewe Transport parastatal Transnet is planning to sell scores of remote railway properties in the Eastern Cape that have become home to hundreds of evicted farm workers and retired railway workers. The inhabitants of the railway buildings have been renting them from Transnet, which is now poised to sell the properties to neighbouring […]

With a new film out and a new job as chair of the UKFilm Council, how does Alan Parker see the future for British movies? Tim Adams ‘Oh, I’m much calmer, less controlling, more relaxed these days,” says Alan Parker, smiling, telling me how he has not only written and directed the film version of […]

South African soccer is trying to clean up its image just weeks before a delegation from world governing body Fifa arrives to assess South Africa’s bid to host the 2006 World Cup Evidence wa ka Ngobeni, Jubie Matlou and Connie Selebogo South African soccer is set for a major shake-up as the government moves to […]

Paul Kirk Smuggling. The very word conjures images of drug dealers and hardened criminals. But in the United States, a special squad of dogs is trained to separate South African travellers from their smuggled biltong. Owing to restrictions on uncooked meat and vegetables the US does not allow biltong to be imported. That means South […]

Mercedes Sayagues The queues for paraffin at the petrol stations were longer than the queues at the polling stations. Some of the four million people, or 80% of registered voters, who abstained must have been queuing. Others instead voted because paraffin, petrol and diesel are scarce but hardship is abundant. On two days, 1,33-million Zimbabweans […]

Andy Capostagno RUGBY The first time anybody mentioned cost was when the New Zealand Rugby Football Union (NZRFU) suggested that it could not afford the extra camera(s) required to assist the “tellyref”. Until that moment the Super 12 was the competition where size mattered and money was no object. Now Australia wants not one, but […]

EIGHT Mozambican rescue workers have drowned on the Limpopo river in the floodstricken southern province of Gaza, taking the death toll across Mozambique to at least 67. Radio Mozambique said the eight died on Thursday when their boat capsized due to strong waves in the Gaza district of Guija. They were members of the district […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Friday 2.00pm. A BATTLE of epic proprtions awaits spectators at Vosloorus Stadium when South Africa’s national under-23 side, the Amaglug-glug take on Cameroon in an Olympic qualifying match on Saturday. The visitors sport a team studded with African Nations Cup jewels, and the Amaglug-glug wil have their work cut out to […]