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/ 20 November 2006
No matter what excuses are made about player availability, poor preparation times and shambolic administration, 2006 will go down as a true annus horribilis for South Africa on the international soccer front. With the domestic game producing little in the way of international standard footballers, has the time arrived to look outside our borders for players?
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/ 20 November 2006
Alex Sudheim finds out why Greig Coetzee’s <i>Johnny Boskak Is Feeling Funny</i> shares parallels with Martin Scorsese’s <i>Taxi Driver</i>.
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/ 20 November 2006
"Madam president, please can you intervene as we are being bombarded by the honourable member’s cellphone," an MP stood to complain about a fellow MP whose phone continually emitted an irksome guttural ringtone as Imbia Sylvester from Cameroon was making his presentation.
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/ 20 November 2006
Rebel rocker Francois Henning has taken a unique road into Afrikaans music. Charles Leonard spoke to him.
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/ 20 November 2006
Few people have had their fingers in more (black economic empowerment) transactions than Martin Kingston, a white male banker born in England. The investment adviser is one of the best wheeler-dealers in South Africa. A small man with strong features and close-cropped hair half-rises from his chair to greet me, writes Jocelyn Newmarch.
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/ 20 November 2006
Thabo Mbeki aspires to crafting a "developmental state" capable of directing the economy on to a path of innovation, sustainable growth, redistribution and poverty reduction. Adopted as a goal in part because the level of private investment has been disappointing, the aspiration is otherwise built on the ANC’s admiration for the East and South-East Asian economies, where rapid economic growth over the past three decades has been guided by activist states.
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/ 20 November 2006
Kerosene lamps and sore eyes were once routine elements of grading student homework in Zimbabwe. Solar electricity has changed that. Caroline Hombe, a 35-year-old teacher in rural Mhondoro, can go through the pile of books stacked on her table without worrying that the onset of darkness will put an end to her work.
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/ 20 November 2006
Andrew Lamprecht visits Willem Boshoff’s outdoor exhibition comprising 15 000 artificial flowers.
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/ 20 November 2006
Confirmed carnivore Michael Hann eats meat every day — so how did he fair in his bid to go green?
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/ 20 November 2006
A United Nations report that claims 720 fighters from Somalia’s Islamic courts fought alongside Hizbullah during the recent war with Israel has been questioned by experts. The report, compiled by the Monitoring Group on Somalia and to be presented to the UN Security Council on Friday, also alleges that Iran sought to purchase uranium from the Supreme Islamic Council of Somalia in exchange for weapons.