Iden Wetherell Zimbabweans are at each others’ throats over the ground rules for a poll next year that could decide the future of President Robert Mugabe’s 19-year grip on power. At the centre of the controversy is a constitutional review process launched by the government in May in response to growing demands for reform to […]
Tony Twine Data published by Statistics South Africa (SSA), which effectively wrote the economic recession we thought we were living through out of the history books, appears to have been accepted by analysts, while astounding the man in the street. Is it simply smoke and mirrors, or something more sinister along revisionist lines? The definition […]
Architects and theorists gathered in Paris to discuss the current state of architecture. Globalisation in the form of cyber-culture was the main topic of conversation, writes Michael Nurok If a bomb had gone off in the Palais de Chaillot last week, architecture’s past, present and future would have ceased to exist. Rarely have the doyens […]
Andy Capostagno Rugby In case anyone is still depressed about the showing of the young guns in Cardiff, there is further bad news: the golden oldies ain’t what they used to be, either. Naas Botha took a team of former greats to the fourth Tusker Safari Sevens in Nairobi last week. Included were such luminaries […]
Deon Potgieter in Copenhagen Denmark has fewer boxers than South Africa and certainly fewer world champions, but they have a positive attitude towards the noble art, which is sorely lacking in the southern tip of Africa. In fact local boxers travelling to Copenhagen may find that they have larger appeal in the Danish capital than […]
Friday night Alex Sudheim Its a dry, flinty wind that blows across the plains and greets me like a John Wayne handshake as I step off the stagecoach and pat the prairie dust from my jeans. The bare-boned bite of the air is advance warning that this place takes no prisoners, so I square my […]
assault Luvuyo Kakaza A human rights radio producer, Toto Futa, has laid charges against the sheriff of the Soweto West court after he was brutally assaulted last week. Futa says the sheriff was sent to confiscate goods from his home on the grounds that payments for municipal services was in arrears. He says he was […]
Alison Whelan Body Language Celibacy was a subject I would giggle and snigger at. It was for people who were too ugly or too weird to get sex anyway. So it is with more than a little humility that I admit to having committed myself to a six- month celibacy contract, with an option to […]
Paul Trueman Online gaming is the fastest-growing industry on the Internet, where players spend hours online sharing information … and killing each other. Some friends and I blew up the Death Star last night, freeing the galaxy from the emperor’s evil tyranny. Not bad for a night’s work. I used to be someone who got […]
Sathima Bea Benjamin. The name rings with enough familiar mystique to enthrall the musically conscientious and the politically conscious. It’s a name rekindling memories of her pristine interpretations of the songs of Duke Ellington, her musical mentor. It rings with the reminder of her somewhat funky 1988 tribute to Winnie Madikizela-Mandela on her most well-known […]