Gavin Evans BOXING It was on a Sunday night, during a dinner party, that Brendan Ingle finally managed to reach me on my cellphone. He’d been leaving messages for me all over London, asking me to contact him as a matter of urgency. Ingle – the Irishman who created “Prince” Naseem Hamed, serving as a […]
How 007 could send an unbreakable coded message to Moonraker Michael Brooks In New Mexico the light can be truly astonishing. Not because it gives the desert a strange aesthetic beauty, but because it contains coded messages. Researchers at the Los Alamos National Laboratory announced recently that they have written data into single photons, the […]
Barry Streek The accrued backlog for the upgrading, maintenance and repair of South Africa’s national roads, excluding provincial and district roads, was estimated at R3- billion at the start of the 1999/2000 financial year, Minister of Transport Dullah Omar has revealed. However, only R775-million was allocated in the 1999/2000 financial year by the Department of […]
Thebe Mabanga The stature of South African musicians is set to be drastically improved. This is if the recommendations of the Music Industry Task Team (Mitt) are successfully implemented. The recommendations are contained in a draft report that has been prepared after a week-long seating for Minister of Arts, Culture, Science and Technology Ben Ngubane. […]
Peter Dickson Still weary from flood relief and mercy missions in Mozambique, South African Air Force (SAAF) helicopter pilots were this week plucking stranded victims from raging river waters in southern KwaZulu- Natal and northern Transkei. Pilots of the SAAF’s Durban-based 15 Squadron rescued 13 pupils and teachers from Riverside Primary in Port Saint John’s […]
Alan Henry MOTOR RACING When the Formula One (F1) paddock reconvenes in Melbourne this week, the main topic of conversation will for once not surround the future of a particular driver or team. Rather it is the very future of the sport which is of paramount concern after the recent revelation that its commercial controller […]
The opportunity to institute a constructive policy to deal with the HIV/Aids epidemic is slipping out of reach as politicians and scientists argue over who knows best Mail & Guardian reporters Minister of Health Manto Tshabalala-Msimang confirmed last week that her department is busy setting up a panel of approximately 30 local and international experts […]
This weekend Cape Town city will razzle to the sound of chainsaws, DJs and one- man bands Erika Schutze Staring at the blackened face, woollen hat and scruffy overalls of Luke Jane I’m reminded of a chimney sweep from a novel by Charles Dickens, only he’s slightly more menacing. And the Blue Temple Night Festival […]
Tanzania’s vast plains are home to the world’s most dangerous and most beautiful beasts Stephen Pritchard Africa is a vast gymnasium for the senses. Sight, hearing and smell are given a punishing workout; tired, urban eyes become sharper, ears more alert and noses are offered new, stimulating aromas. Driving across huge landscapes in search of […]
floods David Le Page A University of Zululand researcher publicly predicted the dramatic flooding in the Northern Province and Mozambique, but his warnings went unheeded by authorities, particularly dam managers. According to a report published this week by British magazine New Scientist, Mark Jury made his predictions as long ago as September. Jury is currently […]