Bruce Cohen THEY surfed in by the score. Shyguy, DarkFlame, Chops, Porky, Jack Frost … and they proved that cyberspace can be an anarchic place indeed. Poor Post and Telecommunications Minister Pallo Jordan was swept along in the chaos of Wednesday’s Internet chat show on the Green Paper on telecommunications. The questions came like bullets […]
They retired to Orania to escape majority rule. Then South Africa’s first black president came to have tea with Hendrik Verwoerd’s widow. David Beresford was there
RUGBY: Jon Swift A SCANT three weeks separates South Africa from the first Test as world champions — on September 2 the World Cup holders face Wales at Ellis Park. On the face of it, Wales do not present an insurmountable hurdle. The game is currently at a nadir in the principality and the revamped […]
Creativity, melodrama and humour left no room for practicality at the SA finals of the Smirnoff Fashion Awards, writes HAZEL FRIEDMAN THERE was a delicious irony in arriving at the Swartkops Airforce Base — the training ground for South Africa’s Special Forces — and being escorted by khaki-clad recce-types in Casspirs to a fashion show […]
Teachers in the Western Cape are demanding proper protection from the gangsters disrupting their schools, reports Rehana Rossouw GANGSTERS prowl schools in the Cape Town suburbs of Belhar and Delft, shooting and stabbing pupils, disrupting classes and trashing the premises. At one school, teachers have downed chalk in protest against the authority’s reluctance to provide […]
Smart drugs? Smart drinks? What’s the difference? And are they really a healthy alternative to booze and SMART DRUGS: Justin Pearce TOMORROW’S going to be a heavy day. You’ve got a major presentation and need to be on your toes to give spot- on answers to the tricky questions you’re likely to So whaddaya do? […]
Anne Eveleth The former State Security Council’s dirty-tricks operation Stratcom (Strategic Communications), was not disbanded in 1991, a former security policeman has Suspended security policeman Sergeant Gary Pollack claims Stratcom became a top-secret structure known by its Afrikaans acronym “Trewits” (Teenrevolusionere Strategie — Counter-revolutionary Strategy). Under pressure to cease political operations following the Peace Accord […]
Ivory Coast’s wing is far from bitter despite his terrible injuries that cast a shadow over the recent World Cup RUGBY: Alex Duval Smith MAX BRITO’s memories of the Rugby World Cup are the same as anyone else’s. But the vision of President Nelson Mandela in Springbok shirt and matching cap, and the spectacle of […]
Rehana Rossouw Although touted as a model for primary health care in many parts of the world, the Alexandra Clinic is dying for lack of support in South Africa. For more than six decades the clinic has served its underpriveleged community, now numbering about 300 000, caring for up to 500 patients a day. This […]
They are the remnants of an ancient hunter-gatherer society — and they’re still on the move, in carts that carry their homes. Sheep-shearing is their livelihood, and their life is often harsh and violent. But it is also gradually disappearing. Eddie Koch visited the Something about the word “verge” best defines the life that Johanna […]