Riaan Wolmarans You’d better shape up, you’d better not cry, you’d better go shop, I’m telling you why … Tidy Trax is coming to town. Yep, the amazingly successful United Kingdom dance label launches an aural attack on our local rave floors at the weekend’s Mother rave, taking place in Cape Town on Friday June […]
priority The Border Rural Committee (BRC) and Eastern Cape provincial office of the Department of Land Affairs were shocked to read in the Mail & Guardian (“Back to the bad old days”, June 18 to 24) the allegation of a lack of departmental interest in the Extension of Security of Tenure Act (Esta). The article […]
Larry Elliott in Cologne The World Bank is wooing the world’s biggest drugs companies with a multibillion dollar package of guarantees to encourage the development of a low-cost Aids vaccine for poor countries. Alarmed by the relentless spread of the HIV virus, the bank is proposing the creation of a global health insurance programme to […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Wimbledon | Friday 3.30pm. AMANDA COETZER will be relying on wider experience at the top levels of professional tennis when she faces Kim Clijsters in their third round match-up at Wimbledon. Clijsters, at only 16, is highly regarded by many observers, and is barely younger than Jelena Dokic, who sent Martina Hingis packing […]
David le Page Finding out that there is a special cellphone service for deaf people was a little puzzling. After all, surely any phone with a vibrating alarm, which is pretty standard, and a normal short message service (SMS) – just as standard- can work perfectly well as a wireless communicator for deaf people? Sure […]
Stephen Bierley Tennis It is an axiom of sport, and particularly tennis, that when a great champion dominates the game, most yearn for a change, and that when the game is in an obvious state of flux everybody yearns for a great champion. For the past 18 months, the only theme running through men’s tennis […]
Niki Moore James Mthembu is a frustrated man. For five years, this tribal elder from the Mbila community in Sodwana, on KwaZulu-Natal’s unspoilt tropical coast, has been trying to get permission to build a small tourist resort on Lake Mgobozeleni. Sodwana falls within Maputaland, advertised extensively by government planners as the next El Dorado for […]
Xolela Mangcu Guest Column Five years ago I invited Sam Nolutshungu and Mamphela Ramphele to Cornell University to discuss South Africa’s prospects for democracy. I remember complaining to Nolutshungu about the overtly political nature of Cabinet appointments in our first democratically elected government. I wanted people to be appointed on the basis of their knowledge […]
The appointment of his Cabinet fitted the last pieces into a power jigsaw that will guarantee President Thabo Mbeki control over every level of South Africa’s government, reports Ivor Powell With a full minister of government attached to the Office of the President; a beefed up Cabinet secretariat to co-ordinate and oversee the implementation of […]
The Microsoft trial is back in full swing and just in case you’re feeling sorry for William Gates III, just stop by the Bill Gates Personal Wealth Clock, . Philip Greenspun at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology runs a little programme on his site which updates the Spectacled One’s fortune based on the daily price […]