THE MTN Champions Tournament starts at Sandton Square, Johannesburg on Wednesday and although they’re a good few years older than when they lit up the courts around the world with their talent with a racquet, hopefully these players still retain many of the skills that made them such great champions. ORDER OF PLAY: Wednesday October […]

Nelson Mandela’s autobiography has been filleted and served up in a new, shorter and cheaper version. PHILIPPA GARSON reports IF reading President Nelson Mandela’s autobiography Long Walk to Freedom is still on your “things to do” list, chances are the century will draw to a close before his bestselling tome gets taken off the shelf. […]

Maurice Hamilton charts the line of succession of Sunday’s rivals for the Formula One world championship as they prepare to dice wheel to wheel in a make-or- break charge for glory in Japan GRAHAM HILL and Gilles Villeneuve did not race in the same era, never mind being team- mates and fighting for the world […]

IT seems that a good place to find South African literature these days is on the radio. Especially for those who aren’t able to read the latest and best locally produced works, SAfm’s various programmes featuring South African fiction must be a boon. Presently being read in over the air in the 10pmslot, Mondays to […]

Medicine Prize TWO scientists were awarded the Nobel Medicine Prize this week for a discovery 23 years ago in Australia. Australian Peter Doherty (55) and Swiss Rolf Zinkernagel (52) received the award for joint work at the John Curtin School of Medical Research in Canberra, between 1973 and 1975. The pair discovered how the immune […]

Ann Eveleth WARM sun chased the shadows from the hills around Mandini on the KwaZulu-Natal north coast last Sunday, but all that lit the main rondawel of the Shandu kraal was the glimmer of a single white candle burned in memory of the two young men gunned down there last week. Women mourning on straw […]

Roger Cowe SAINSBURY and the Co-op signalled the start of a new era in British high-street retailing last week when they launched a project to transform their trading relationships with Third World producers. The two grocery groups have teamed up with the Fairtrade Foundation to develop codes of conduct that should result in improved conditions […]

Jacquie Golding-Duffy A CABAL of about 15 staffers at the Independent Broadcasting Authority (IBA) have hauled the management of the regulator before the public protector for an investigation into allegations of financial mismanagement and misappropriation of taxpayers’ funds. A memorandum from this group, which outlines grievances and alleged malpractices by some top IBA executives, will […]

One of the greatest things the local science and technology industry has going for it is its people. Lesley Cowling reports STATISTICS released this month confirm what South African scientists and engineers have long suspected: they work in difficult circumstances, no one understands them and they are brilliant. The Foundation for Research Development’s recently published […]

Marion Edmonds POLITICAL parties are anticipating a review of the Constitution next year, leading to future amendments to the text, finalised by the Constitutional Committee this week. Both the National Party and the Democratic Party say they will take the opportunity of a review next year to change the clause which prohibits parliamentarians from crossing […]