The violence-torn taxi industry is slowly changing, reports guest writer Pippa Green.

GRAPES and wine contain a natural antidote to cancer, a discovery that could help explain the so-called ”French paradox” – the lower rates of heart disease and cancer of nations like France, Italy and Spain. John Pezzuto, of the Illinois College of Pharmacy in Chicago, and other scientists report in the American journal Science that […]

CHRIS ROPER loves the production but resents the author of The Winter’s Tale Will Shakespeare peers smugly out of the homely imported foliage that flanks the Maynardville audience, his honest Englishman’s brow softened by the silvery uplight strategically placed to keep him visible throughout performances of his masterworks. Big Bard is watching you, but the […]

Mungo Soggot A SUPREME Court judge has been reported to the chief justice after ordering a leading campaigner for gender equality to adopt her husband’s name before he would grant her a divorce. Loretta Jacobus, the African National Congress MPL who chairs Gauteng province’s committee on gender equality, says she was stunned and “disgusted” when […]

Jacquie Golding-Duffy speaks to the people behind the sweeping changes in current affairs programmes The launch this week of a new current affairs programme – Question and Answer (Q&A) – marks the revamp taking place within the SABC’s television news department. It has taken the new head of SABC-TV’s Current Affairs division, Sarah Crowe, less […]

The National Symphony Orchestra (NSO), ditched last week by its sugar daddy, the SABC, finds itself in the position of most South African cultural organisations: under-funded and in danger of collapse. It will have to fight for its survival by attracting support in competition with such bodies as the Market Theatre or township art centres. […]

Boris Becker is devoted to tennis and to his family. While one is threatened by age and injury, the other is threatened by racism and hate. Stephen Bierley reports THERE is a thin stream of fear that constantly trickles through the minds of all the world’s top sportsmen and women. Pressure, stress, anxiety, apprehension, loss […]

The truth commission has released details of the Steyn Report, concealed since 1992 – and it contains startling disclosures. Stefaans BrUmmer reports FORMER state president FW de Klerk entrusted action on the elusive Steyn Report, which linked the apartheid military to “third force” activities, to three top military officials who were themselves implicated – including […]

When playwright Ronnie Govender – a former beer salesman and this week’s guest writer – attended a beer sellers’ reunion, he couldn’t help noticing what had – and hadn’t – changed THE giant fig tree behind the Umbilo Hotel stood reluctant sentinel to the beer garden which had seen better times. Layers of soot and […]

bloom Brett Fromson YOU’VE heard of the Nasdaq Stock Market, but how about the Rasdaq? The Rasdaq is Romania’s new stock market; it is one of dozens of financial bazaars to spring up worldwide in the thaw following the end of the Cold War. As communist and socialist governments have fallen, the new regimes have […]