David Beresford It was not quite Noah’s Ark. But the ecstatic look on the face of the Israeli, Shai Doron, sitting in a tent on a KwaZulu-Natal hillside last weekend must have been there on the face of the patriarch when the animals tripped in two-by-two. Doron, the director of the Biblical Zoo in Jerusalem, […]
Iden Wetherell in Harare PROPERTY owners in Harare’s upmarket Borrowdale suburb whose homes overlook an estate used by President Robert Mugabe as a weekend retreat have been told to sell their properties to the government for “security reasons”. But they say they are only being offered half the market value. The 12-hectare estate, including an […]
A check-up on just who TML journalists have been calling from their phones at work caused an outrage, reports Stefaans BrUmmer TIMES Media Limited — owner of the Sunday Times, Business Day and other titles — this week apologised to reporters after being accused of tactics “reminiscent of the former security branch” in compromising confidential […]
TENNIS: Frank Keating THIS is the last Wimbledon for the evocative and singular No 1 Court. Architectural change is sometimes imperceptible, other times terminally dramatic. It will be the latter when the bulldozers grind in to ransack the Centre Court’s democratic and friendly old semi-detached neighbour as soon as the last doubles finals are over […]
`Terror’ Lekota’s position as premier of the Free State lies in the hands of an ANC delegation which will decide whether he has overstepped the power of his position, reports Jacquie Golding-Duffy The knives are out for Free State premier Patrick “Terror” Lekota, even as a delegation appointed by President Nelson Mandela prepares to defuse […]
There is always a suspicion, when one offers a fond farewell to a man who is a rival, that tributes are born more of relief at seeing the back of him than respect for his achievements. It is therefore a measure of our admiration for Ken Owen that we express the hope his formal retirement […]
SADC members meet on Friday to approve a regional security initiative, but their action has been criticised by human rights organisations. Iden Wetherell reports A SUMMIT of Southern African Development Community (SADC) heads of state meeting on Friday in Gaborone to launch a regional security partnership has provoked protests over the omission of earlier proposals […]
Worcester residents had widely different opinions of the truth commission which visited their town this week. Marion Edmunds reports DOWN at the Brandwacht Hotel, in the saloon bar, a Worcester prison warder sat glowering over his brandy and coke. It had been a pleasant enough afternoon, until two journalists had come in for a drink […]
Mungo Soggot A LEADING United States lawyer has thrown his weight behind an attack on South Africa’s final Constitution for allowing big companies to steamroll the rights of individuals. Ralph Nader warns the Constitution could entrench a new form of power abuse in the country — “autocratic rule by big corporations”. In an article for […]
born Jon Henderson recalls the birth of the tie-break, reviled by many as vandalism but the flashpoint for an epic battle MANY of us saw it as a nasty American innovation, others regarded it simply as gratuitous tinkering with an exquisite scoring system, while few, as I recall, spoke up for it. Twenty-five years ago […]