Paul Kirk In the strangest address to the KwaZulu- Natal legislature for years, Dumisane Makhaye, the provincial housing MEC and an African National Congress national executive committee member, this week turned a speech on racism into a play recital. The play, an untitled Makhaye production, is so disjointed as to be barely comprehensible, but has […]

The participants in the annual Durban- Johannesburg Commemorative Run are there for the sheer joy of motorcycling Gavin Foster It’s hard to get an adrenalin rush riding a 65-year-old motorcycle for more than 600km at a speed of 60kph, but there are other compensations. You get to see more of the countryside, you get to […]

Jane Rosenthal STAMLAND by Karel Schoeman (Human & Rousseau) BULLER SE PLAN by Ingrid Winterbach (Human & Rousseau) Interestingly, Karel Schoeman begins this travelogue by shedding some of his baggage,in more ways than one. His shoulder bag goes missing and he is obliged to sleep over in the airport and have his first view of […]

John Matshikiza WITH THE LID OFF ‘You’re going to where this time?!” said the voice on the other end of the phone. I thought she was interested in the controversial nature of my destination, but in fact she merely wanted to register her astonishment that I was getting into another aircraft and flying to yet […]

ACT Brumbies captain Brett Robinson has been cleared to play in Saturday’s Super 12 clash against The Stormers in Cape Town despite injuring his knee in training. Robinson needed several stitches to the cut but has been passed fit as the Brumbies chase their first Super 12 win in South Africa. ACT coach Edddie Jones […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Vadodara | Friday 9.00am. SOUTH Africa have posted a strong total of 282/5 in their alotted 50 overs in the fourth one-dayer against India at Vadodara. Jacques Kallis who was 81 not-out played superbly well, especially after he was responsible for the dismissal of Gary Kirsten (71). Kallis hit some towering sixes off […]

THE government is securing the release and return of 14 South African fishermen detained on their ship in a Moroccan port for over a month for alleged illegal fishing. “The Department of Foreign Affairs, through its embassy in Rabat, is assisting with arrangements for the return of the seamen,” the foreign and transport departments said. […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Gabarone | Thursday 6.00pm THE Southern African Development Community said on Thursday that it will back a bid by four members states to seek permission from world trade authority Cites to sell off stockpiles of ivory. The 14-nation SADC will support the requests of Botswana, Namibia, South Africa and Zimbabwe, the group’s executive […]

Insurer Sanlam said on Tuesday that it has signed an agreement with Australia’s Macquarie Bank to jointly set up a firm to sell financial services to wealthy individuals in South Africa. “The new company will offer a technology driven range of innovative financial solutions and products, targeting high net worth investors,” the head of the […]

SOME 175 new cases of Trypanosomiasis – commonly known as sleeping sickness – were diagnosed in the Democratic Republic of Congo’s western Bas-Congo province last year. According to the chief medical officer at the disease’s control office in Kinshasa, 152050 people had been checked for the disease which is spread by the tsetse fly. The […]