THE United States wants an assurance that three US nationals arrested in connection with smuggling weapons into the country will not be ill-treated while in police custody. An official at the US embassy in Harare said his office will register its concerns if it finds the three are being mistreated. The state-controlled Herald newspaper reports […]
Neil Manthorp in Christchurch Cricket `It couldn’t have happened at a better time in my career. I grew up more in that week than I did in the rest of my life put together. If I hadn’t and I’d been the same person I was before then, I would never have survived, I just wouldn’t […]
Andrew Worsdale Movie of the week `Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.” So said award-winning playwright Tom Stoppard who, together with Marc Norman, penned the faultless script for Shakespeare in Love. If they don’t get an Oscar nod for […]
THE South African relief mission to flooded areas of Mozambique is proceeding, with two Oryx helicopters flying emergency supplies to Maimelane and Inhassorro. Assistance from a Japanese aid organisation was anticipated from Thursday night while the Red Cross and other organisations are already on the scene. They are working to pre-empt famine after the destruction […]
SPARKED by crop damage fears, white maize futures reversed their upward sprint on Wednesday and turned back from the R1000-a-ton mark. A dealer said white maize futures reversed between R10 and R16 on five of the six contracts because of failed export orders for the staple grain. Traders are revising their estimates for the total […]
Ouagadougou, the capital of the tiny West African country of Burkina Faso, is also the self-styled capital of African cinema. Every two years it hosts Fespaco, the festival of films from Africa and the African diaspora. John Matshikiza, who attended for the first time this year, talks about two of his favourite films from this […]
ANDRE MARKGRAAFF has picked two new caps for the Cats team to play the Sharks in a Super 12 rugby match at Ellis Park on Saturday night. Pieter O’Neill from South Western Districts and Riaan van Jaarsveld from Boland will be playing at flyhalf and centre respectively. In another backline change, Jorrie Kruger comes in […]
BRITAIN on Thursday denied that five of its officials who were told to leave the Democratic Republic of the Congo are spies. London said the men had been working on contingency planning for a possible evacuation of its embassy in the capital, Kinshasa. “These people were not spies. Their purpose was wholly innocent and we […]
Rebecca Smithers Product: JUMP AHEAD BABY knowledge adventure Requirements: PC: Windows 3.1; 8Mb Ram; Mac: System 7; 8Mb Ram I was initially sceptical about introducing my daughter Mabel to the world of computers at the tender age of 12 months. But after just half-an- hour of trying out Jump Ahead Baby, she was bashing the […]
Loose cannon Robert Kirby I have heard that during his heyday PW Botha was something of an enema freak. Before stressful occasions like making important speeches, blustering his way through Broederbond meetings, helicopter big-game shooting expeditions and so on, the Great Crocodile used to enjoy having a bucket of warm soapy water pumped up his […]