PRESIDENT Nelson Mandela arrived in Bahrain on Thursday on the second leg of a mini-tour of the Gulf. Mandela is due to present his condolences to the Gulf island state’s new emir, Sheikh Hamad ibn Issa al-Khalifa, who succeeded to power last month following the death of his father. Mandela is accompanied by Foreign Minister […]
Kevin Mitchell Boxing Brendan Ingle says Naseem Hamed has been abandoned by his friends and will be finished as a top-flight fighter within two years. Given the turbulent nature of the business, it is not surprising that boxing generates such bitterness between old associates when they discover that their long-held trust is the sham they […]
Cameron Duodu:LETTER FROM THE NORTH Are you as confused about the Kosovo situation as I am? On the face of it, Nato is doing a great job: bombing Slobodan Milosevic into stopping the atrocities he’s been inflicting on the ethnic Albanian population of Kosovo. The stories of these atrocities are harrowing. Young men rounded up […]
extremism The country’s first election since the genocide was an important test for Hutus and Tutsis. Chris McGreal reports from Rubona Sosthene Niyitegeka is an unsung hero of the Rwandan genocide. After the killing began five years ago this month, the Hutu shopkeeper cajoled, bribed and blackmailed dozens of his neighbours into sheltering Tutsis from […]
David Shapshak While cellphones are leaping forward, the big business players who determine which protocols they operate on have been lagging behind. Developments for the next, or third, generation of cellphones have been stalled while the two dominant players, Europe and the United States, were deadlocked over which of their protocols should be the new […]
There’s no escaping it.You’ve dabbled in the Internet, made a few trades and earned a few bucks. You think you’re pretty good. You’re not alone. The ease and low cost of trading over the Internet coupled with the boom in major stock markets have convinced many people that they’re the greatest traders of all time […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Friday 91.30am. CONTROVERSIAL playwright Mbongeni Ngema’s estate was sequestrated in the Pietermaritzburg High Court on Thursday in the wake the Sarafina II Aids play debacle. The sequestration follows legal action by the Heath Special Investigation Unit in its continued attempts to to recover some R14-million in taxpayers’ money spent on the […]
PLAY was suspended in Augusta, Georgia late on Thursday at the 63rd US Masters due to inclement weather, with more than one third of the field still on the course. Lightning was spotted in the area of Augusta National Golf Club. Americans Davis Love, Brandel Chamblee and Scott McCarron shared the clubhouse lead at three-under […]
The government’s new diamond valuer has challenged the big daddy of the diamond industry, writes Mungo Soggot A row which could involve millions of rands of tax revenue is brewing between De Beers and the South African government’s official diamond valuer. The valuer has rejected De Beers’s evaluation of a consignment of rough diamonds due […]
Jonathan Jones One day last August the great photographer Henri Cartier-Bresson opened his copy of Le Monde and was shocked by what he saw. There next to each other were two pictures – one of his old friend Pablo Picasso, the other of a new car, the Citron Xsara Picasso, bearing not just Picasso’s name […]