The links between Orlando Pirates and Jomo Cosmos which almost amount to a father and son relationship stretch back to the days when Jomo Sono use to play for Pirates. The “Black Prince” left the Buccaneers to go and play for a team known as New York Cosmos in the United States. On his return […]

Who does Robert Mugabe think he is, that he can take over businesses as well? He is a thief, a low-life, someone who looks at others’ possessions with envy and then plots to steal them. I am repulsed to have such an immoral man claiming to be the leader of Zimbabwe. He must have no […]

Matthew Burbidge Top hotel chefs in Gauteng feel like frustrated artists: no one appreciates their work, South Africans just want bigger slices and they’ll never be really, really rich, they moaned in the Hyatt’s kitchen this week. Seven chefs, or sevens stars, as they are called, from the South African Chefs’ Association are performing at […]

channel vision Robert Kirby Last week’s Special Assignment on the subject of child prostitution opened with a real stinger. In her usual soulful tones, Annaliese Burgess announced that permission to have themselves filmed, interviewed and transmitted had been granted by a collection of child prostitutes. What seems not to have struck Annaliese or her reporters […]

A tougher test than the Dane is needed before Lewis John Rawling After battering the gallant though outclassed Brian Nielsen to defeat, Mike Tyson said he needed two more fights before he would be ready to attempt to regain the world heavyweight title. He is probably right, but the television powerbrokers who dictate the course […]

Marianne Merten “Let’s talk about sex”, goes the popular song. But organisers of an international sex tourism conference found the chambers of Parliament are not the place for such frankness. Instead, about 100 delegates – ranging from a matron to an activist, with a smattering of men – relocated to a corner of historic Cape […]

Gary Cotterell Levi, Diesel, Nike the Y-Generation is branded from head to toe. With money to burn, these 20-somethings present an attractive slice of the pie for banking strategists. But this market is a tricky one. Dino Fifas, MD of Logistix Kids SA, says the youth market has traditionally been costly for banks maintaining thousands […]

Deon Potgieter South African heavyweight hopeful Corrie Sanders is on the verge of challenging for the biggest prize in world boxing. When Hasim Rahman knocked out Lennox Lewis at Carnival City in April to win the universal heavyweight championship, Sanders watched with a touch of envy. Sanders had previously given Rahman one of his toughest […]

David Macfarlane Fundamental conflicts over teachers’ working conditions remain unresolved, despite the averting this week of a strike that would have disrupted the matric exams now under way. The South African Democratic Teachers’ Union (Sadtu) remains firm in its refusal to sign the public sector wage agreement. And future negotiations involving teachers and the government […]

Your article “Draft policy for GM foods” (October 5) implies that we should feel safe about this highly contentious technology as we have a genetically modified organisms (GMO) Act in place. The GMO Act came into effect on December 1 last year. But before these regulations were even in place, at least 20% of the […]