Channel vision Some long years back I got trapped in an aircraft window seat by a young Pik Botha. I think he was then at the World Court in The Hague. We were on a flight from London to Johannesburg and the more Pik banged on to all around him about the moral certainties, the […]

A Durban principal had been under police investigation for paedophilia for many years, reports Paul Kirk The KwaZulu-Natal press has been peppered with advertisements celebrating the death of a former principal and scoutmaster who has emerged as one of South Africa’s worst serial paedophiles. Douglas Drysdale, who died last week, was principal of two of […]

After narrowly escaping death by disco when a glitter ball fell on him during rehearsal, Boy George tells Libby Brooks why Boyzone’s Stephen Gately isn’t his type of queer But for those benign few inches, it would have been a pop demise to rival Mama Cass and her chicken sandwich. The fates, however, have clearly […]

You can invest offshore even if your name isn’t Oppenheimer. Sarah Bullen did the legwork You are facing the year with a little nest egg of R10E000. It’s enough for a deposit on a small car, you could put it back into your fairly flaccid 32-day account, but you want to invest it offshore. And […]

Q & A `First the Barenaked Ladies and now the Springbok Nude Girls?” quipped Rolling Stone Germany quizzically, adding, “No respectable club owner in Germany would book an act with a name like that!” They did, however, rate our risqu boerseuns’ latest album, Surpass the Powers, above popular American rage outfit Korn. After a live […]

David Beresford Another Country Stephen Hawking discovered black holes while climbing from his wheelchair into bed which, as the great man pointed out in his much- celebrated book, A Brief History of Time, is a time-consuming process. His lead is obviously a worthy one to follow, disabled people often having much time on their hands […]

Shaun Harris The asset management industry’s newest kid on the block, Velocity Asset Management, had a difficult birth. It was launched at the beginning of last August into a tumultuous market, and also had to cope with the hangover of the Old Mutual Asset Managers’ (Omam) court action enforcing restraint of trade agreements against some […]

Spioenkop. The bloodiest battle of the Anglo-Boer South African War. It was little more than a skirmish, but on this dusty little stage three great statesmen of the 20th century played a role. And so did the ghost of Jack the Ripper. Gavin Foster reports Louis Botha was there. Less than three months before, as […]

Bob Woolmer >From the Pavilion The changing of the guard is a daily ritual outside Buckingham Palace. Unfortunately, although I suppose inevitably, it also have to happen to the national cricket side. It is an unsettling feeling; the side has performed brilliantly and have become loved by the whole of South Africa. The announcement of […]