Cameron Duodu LETTER FROM THE NORTH Who are Robert Mugabe’s political strategists? He ought to fire the lot of them. There is no country in the world in which you can hold a referendum – and expect to win – when there is a fuel shortage. A fuel shortage is like no other economic deprivation, […]

Neil Manthorp CRICKET Having made one of his gutsiest half centuries of a pretty gutsy career during the triangular final last Sunday, Hansie Cronje had just a single day at home before joining the rest of his squad for the the flight to India on Wednesday. What a triumph it was. When Steve Waugh gloated […]

Heather Connon SHAREWORLD When FTSE International meets on March 8 to decide who is in and out, up and down, in the London stock market, construction company BICC’s lowly 330-million market capitalisation means it could be demoted to the small-cap index – of the smallest companies in the market. But Baltimore Technologies, a supplier of […]

Bob Woolmer FROM THE PAVILION Lance Klusener, our hero, and Guy Whittall from Zimbabwe have both been given suspended sentences for swearing at each other. Big deal! If match referees had been in business in 1975, none of the Australian players would have played all year. I was fortunate enough to spend more than eight […]

A critic gets paid $10E000 a day to tell designers not to be too clever Jack Schofield For only $10E000 a day, usability expert Jakob Nielsen will tell you why your website is rubbish. Surprisingly, what you get for the money isn’t a high-powered marketing executive, or even an expert in Web programming. He’s just […]

One of Durban’s biggest police stations has been renting its car park and providing a private security service to a nightclub Paul Kirk As I pull up into the Point Road parking lot, a well-dressed car guard comes up and ensures me my car will be safe. Neatly dressed in blue, and sporting a bulletproof […]

Time is running out for a group of farmworkers who are waiting for state assistance to build new homes Marianne Merten A group of 14 Stellenbosch farm workers and their children may soon find themselves homeless following the Department of Agriculture and Land Affairs’s failure to provide them with grants for the construction of new […]

Sarah Bullen Last year the Insider Trading Directorate (ITD) dropped a minor bombshell on local markets by publishing a list of companies in whose shares insider trading was suspected. In January it added 10 more to its list of 43. Six claims have been settled, seven have been closed due to lack of evidence and […]

Matthew Krouse REVIEW OFTHEWEEK William Wharton’s Birdy – widely known as a bestselling novel and an Alan Parker movie – makes for an intermittently moving piece of stage drama, even though Naomi Wallace’s adaptation is in a writing style that’s somewhat out of date. Like Peter Schaffer’s Equus, it’s about a youth who develops an […]

Deon Potgieter BOXING One of the highlights of the most intriguing boxing bill in recent memory will be the presence at ringside of Irichelle Duran, daughter of the legendary Roberto Duran. Irichelle Duran has signed with Golden Gloves, the promoters of the tournament, and will be making her professional boxing debut in South Africa on […]