The Olympic Games are just two months away and Sydney is gearing up for the big event Grant Shimmin in Sydney I was finding it a little difficult to believe. I mean, here I was in the city where it would soon all be happening and there seemed to be nothing to tell me about […]
Heather Hogan Also known as “Mandela’s children”, the Birth to Ten (BTT) project, a collaboration between several universities and organisations, has studied thousands of children for the past 10 years to gauge the effects of urbanisation and political transformation on their growth and well-being. In 1989 the project began studying 3 275 children from the […]
ball Merryman Kunene Bafana Ngonzwane, a Standard 7 pupil at Malvern High, hails from Dobsonville in Soweto. He and his friends, Gift Sibeko and Vuyo Mrali, have long abandoned playing football in the township using balls made of plastic, bricks for poles and the occasional R5 bet that comes with it. All three have enrolled […]
David Beresford ANOTHER COUNTRY The brigade of determined faces that is the Tour de France has been hurtling across the television screen again and once more, after witnessing the agony of the proceedings, I come away puzzling: why do they do it ? Once upon a time, and a very long time ago it was, […]
Thebe Mabanga in your ear South Africa badly needs a national music chart. One needs to be able to log on to the Internet or pick up a paper and be able see what song is flavour of the moment for the majority of entertainment consumers. Radio, by definition, has a crucial role to play […]
Johannesburg | Friday 11.00am. VOLVO is to use South Africa as a base for exporting catalytic converters and alloy wheels to its global assembly plants. The plan, just announced, is one of the first of several countertrade projects to get the go ahead linked to the defence agreement between South Africa, BAE Systems and Swedish […]
A BRITISH model who flew to Cape Town earlier this week to promote the plight of thousands of penguins struck by an oil spill off the Cape coast is having something of an identity crisis. The saga began when the International Fund for Animal Welfare announced Alex Gain, winner of the Sun newspaper’s Babe of […]
SAFAIR, the aviation leasing division of Imperial Holdings, announced three transactions worth more than R200-million, involving four passenger jets and a cargo aircraft. THE company has leased two McDonnell-Douglas MD81 jet airliners to Spirit Airlines, a US passenger carrier, for a period of eight years. In another deal, Safair purchased two additional ex-Austrian Airlines McDonnell-Douglas […]
A FUEL fire erupted again at the scene of the blaze in which more than 250 people died this week while villagers risked their lives scooping fuel still gushing from the vandalised duct. Flames leapt eight metres into the sky and a huge column of smoke billowed into the air above the village of Ovire […]
POLICE ‘arrested’ an escaped penguin waddling down a railway line at Cape Town station. A police spokesperson said it was believed the penguin had escaped from the South African Foundation for the Conservation of Coastal Birds emergency cleaning station in an old railway shed at Salt River where birds contaminated by oil from the sunken […]