David Beresford WHEN the United Kingdom’s Conservative government ann-ounced plans to launch its national lottery in 1992 – the last country to do so in Western Europe – nobody realised the extraordinary impact it would have on British society. With an estimated 65% of the population handing over their 1 every week in pursuit of […]

WE live in a solar-powered world, yet nearly two-and-a-half billion people are desperately short of energy with which to improve their existence. There are two energy crises: the one we know about, in which 21% of the world’s population guzzles 70% of the world’s commercial energy output, mostly in the form of pollution-causing fossil fuels. […]

Justin Arenstein PROVINCIAL ministers and political office bearers in Mpumalanga allegedly used R1,3- million from a low-cost housing budget to renovate their state houses, including the construction of a swimming pool and lapa. The expenditure, which was severely criticised in a confidential government report more than a yar ago, was allegedly made without Cabinet or […]

SOCCER:Andrew Muchineripi WITH no Premier League fixtures scheduled for this weekend, all attention will be focused on the Coca-Cola Cup, formerly known as the JPS Cup, which reaches the semi-final stage. Out of the four sides that have reached this stage of the competition, two – QwaQwa Stars (1994) and Bush Bucks (1993) -have already […]

THERE is something about Sonia Combrink that drives men to protect her. Charles MacDonald resisted identifying her when he gave police the baby she had stolen and pretended was theirs for two years, and current lover Jaques Snyman is vowing to stick by her in the event of a prison sentence. Combrink (26) was found […]

Gilles Paris in Tripoli WHEN the artificial “great river”, which is fed by fossil water extracted from the depths of the Libyan desert, was inaugurated earlier this month with all the lavish trappings of a Hollywood spectacular, it gushed out of the city’s antiquated conduits and flooded the streets. While that was going on, Colonel […]

JUDITH WATT takes men’s corsets out of the closet and into the parade IN her book Fabulous Nobodies, Lee Tulloch had her protagonist give all her dresses names and characters. Tulloch says it’s not just about trying on frocks, but about becoming them: “When people criticise fantasy clothes on the runway, I always defend it […]

Primedia Broadcasting, in THE MARK GEVISSER PROFILE Comrade Capitalist `IF we don’t get the bid here,” said Stan Katz to Rina Broomberg as they stood waiting, for hours, for the Independent Broadcasting Authority to decide who would get Radio Highveld, “we’ll take it to the supreme court.” Broomberg and Katz, the gurus behind 702 Talk […]

While South African companies establish themselves in China, they should prioritise upholding human rights in that country, argues Nol van Breda SOUTH AFRICANS, and in particular the business community, should take stock of the atrocious human rights record of China, one of the permanent members on the United Nations Security Council, just as China is […]