Businessman Strive Masiyiwa was all set to introduce Zimbabwe’s first cellphone network when the government stepped in. Jan Raath reports from Harare STRIVE MASIYIWA says it is fair comment that his conversion to born-again Christianity coincided roughly with an offer he could not refuse from two political heavyweights in Zimbabwe’s ruling Zanu party. A Cabinet […]

* Moral and religious harm of advertising: Commercial advertisers sometimes include religious themes or use religious images or personages to sell products. It is possible to do this in acceptable ways, but the practice is obnoxious and offensive when it involves exploiting religion or treating it flippantly. * Cultural harm: Advertising also can have a […]

It is four years since Chris Hani’s death, and speculation is growing that assassin Janusz Waluz was not alone, reports Stefaans Brmmer WHEN Polish immigrant Janusz Waluz was arrested shortly after he gunned down Chris Hani, his only words were that the murder weapon – found in his getaway car – had been “planted”. After […]

IT has been observed that it is as well to be remembered after one’s death, but better not to be found out before one’s death. Chris Hani has been blessed in both respects. Hero-worshipped by millions before his assassination, he has now been remembered in perpetuity — or something approaching it – by having the […]

Ann Eveleth STATE-OWNED port operator Portnet has donated taxpayers’ money to Durban’s top cultural centre in a mysterious deal arranged by a former member of Umkhonto we Sizwe. Bartel Arts Trust (BAT) says it still has to establish where it is supposed to invest the R50 000 it received in February from Portnet’s Reconstruction and […]

With his experience of African conditions and solidity in defence, Gavin `Stability Unit’ Lane looks the right man for the job in South Africa’s vital clash with Congo SOCCER: Andrew Muchineripi GAVIN LANE could complete a fairytale rise to international football this weekend when South Africa play Congo in a crucial qualifying match for the […]

Rescheduling has led to a struggle to save programmes, reports Jacquie Golding-Duffy AN embattled SABC current affairs division is scrambling to salvage some of its programmes in the wake of a shake-up in the department’s schedules. Viewers of SABC3 will only have one current affairs slot a week, scheduled for 9.30pm on Thursdays, while viewers […]

Hazel Friedman AFTER months of expectation, this week saw the launch of the National Arts Council (NAC) – an independent statutory board established to allocate funding for the arts. Even though the NAC Bill has yet to be passed by Cabinet, the official NAC lift-off was announced by the Minister of Arts, Culture, Science and […]

Marion Edmunds MEETINGS WITH REMARKABLE TREES by Thomas Pakenham (Weidenfeld and Nicolson, R195) LEAVING the skirmishes of the Boer War behind him, and the unsightly scramble by colonialists for Africa, award-winning historian Sir Thomas Pakenham has chosen still, silent subjects for his most recent research. Meetings with Remarkable Trees is an unusual and beautiful picture […]

TENNIS:Andrew Spencer THERE is, in the Swedes, the kind of chill aloofness about the way they go about the business of churning out top tennis players that reflects, in many ways, the engineered correctness of their heavy industry. The thought of flaws and setbacks being anything other than a temporary aberration simply does not exist. […]