Friday night Marianne Thamm Friday nights in the city are rather predictable. I’ve never really liked them. Most of us are generally too tired from the week’s toil to really let rip. There’s nothing brave about going out on a Friday night. Friday nights are for the faint- hearted. But Monday nights are another thing. […]
There is something uncomfortably familiar about what has become known as the Tuli elephant scandal and it is not just the tradition of cruelty by man to dumb animals. It lies in the apparent impunity enjoyed by some individuals who are engaged in activities which, if not criminal, are anathema to the rest of society. […]
At the end of his own century, the veteran economist JK Galbraith sums up the state of the planet. Some inhabitants are gloriously free from toil. Others starve I was born and reared on a farm in Canada. To this day I never awaken in the morning without a sense of satisfaction that I will […]
Riaan Wolmarans Let’s face it. Raves are getting a bit boring. You have your big venue, your carefully label-dressed crowd of several thousand, the laser lights, VIP ticket holders glaring snootily from some balcony … it could be a description of any of the big dance events of the past few months. Now don’t get […]
A top official at the University of the North has been accused by a commission of inquiry of forging former state president Nelson Mandela’s signature on a fundraising letter to raise more than R600-million. Documents that form part of the findings of a commission appointed by the university to probe irregularities show that John Wiltshire, […]
Kasia Boddy THE ANGLE OF INCIDENCE by Alex Benzie (Viking) Alex Benzie’s novel begins with a Freudian primal scene. Five-year-old Cameron stumbles upon his parents in the act of generation. Rather than sending her son away, his mother, Catherine, insists that he watch. She wants him to understand that it is not an act of […]
David Shapshak Western Cape scientists, working with their counterparts in Texas, have discovered the gene that causes one of the most common forms of blindness. Now that they know where the gene is, scientists can begin work on a drug to act specifically on it. The scientists used Silicon Valley analysis techniques to mine the […]
Housing for the All Africa Games is being built within sight of the Alexandra offices where refugees from factional battles sheltered in 1992 … and still live, writes Thokozani Mtshali A young woman died of pneumonia in Alexandra this week. She had lived in the former muncipal offices, into which about 300 people have been […]
Net users used to say that “information wants to be free”, but the new trend is for websites that will pay you to read them. Frequent surfers can collect cash in the form of “ipoints” or beenz the way frequent flyers collect air miles, as website owners sign up for rewards schemes that encourage customers […]
The Springboks have never won at the House of Pain in Dunedin, but the return of Os du Randt to the scrum might just be the boost the team needs. Andy Capostagno reports Three weeks ago South Africa had never scored 100 points in a single Test match. Two weeks ago Wales had never beaten […]