Only a masochist would beg their bank to be allowed to shovel ever- increasing chunks of their salary in to the gaping maw of bond repayments, and to do it twice a month. Or someone who knew that, bizarrely, it could prove quite profitable. According to Standard Bank, by splitting your bond repayment in two, […]
Tracy Murinik On show in Cape Town Just in case you overlooked him, I can report that Caliban is, indeed, alive and well, and effectively leaving many a little speechless and thunderstruck in his eloquent wake. Mustafa Maluka’s latest solo exhibition in the Artsstrip at the AVA, entitled (the (UNSTOPPABLE) rapist), engages, through an elaborate […]
WEDNESDAY, 6.30PM: FOLLOWING an urgent application by the Namibian Ministry of Lands, Resettlement and Rehabilitation the Namibian High Court has ordered the eviction of 56 families who have illegally occupied 10 Government farms in the Kunene, Omaheke and Otjozondjupa regions. The illegal settlers, who allegedly raised Cain on the farms they occupied in November last […]
Newfangled appliances don’t only make our lives easier, they create thousands of jobs, writes Ian Wylie According to Garfield, the cartoon world’s laziest cat, the greatest inventions ever are labour-saving devices such as the microwave pizza and the remote control. But it could be argued that the best inventions are those which need labour and […]
Paul Martin Wimbledon The weight of Wimbledon has, literally, frustrated Wayne Ferreira’s quest for glory on what should be his best surface – grass. He is complaining not so much about the weight of his own expectations, but rather about the heaviness of the tennis balls now being used in the men’s game. This is […]
Jack Lundin: PERSONAL HISTORY Until a few weeks ago you could have seen him on the corner of Pretoria Street and Quartz: filthy dirty, stinking of glue, begging from cars. Twelve years old and one of the small army of Hillbrow street urchins. My notes on Elias start at 9.50 am on October 1 1996, […]
Electronic commerce is on the rise on the World Wide Web. But there are still a number of problems in this new market place, write Alex Brummer and Nicholas Bannister There comes a point with a technological process when the world wakes up to the possibilities of what can be achieved. A decade ago the […]
Leonard Doyle John Sweeney and Peter Beaumont Algeria is the winner of an alternative world cup – for the worst abuser of human rights. The garland of dishonour emerges from findings in The Observer’s Human Rights Index, launched to mark the 50th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. With the backing of a […]
Stephen Bierley Tennis The warning from Russia’s Yevgeny Kafelnikov is brutally blunt: “Tennis has a big problem and is slowly going downhill. We definitely need to make some changes.” Nobody in their right mind would ever pretend that tennis, an essentially middle- class game, could ever rival football or any other of the world’s major […]
Mercedes Sayagues A SECOND LOOK The news of Alioune Blondin Beye’s death in a plane crash found me writing in my mind an angry letter to the Mail & Guardian, prompted by its latest stories on Angola. My anger was not about the stories nor directed to Beye (although nothing bad is said about the […]