Heather Hogan When Sergeant Hendrik de Klerk (26) used only his hands to arrest an armed bank robber outside a bank in Hillbrow earlier this year, he never imagined he would be awarded the Top Cop of the Year award. When the robber shot at him, he disregarded his own safety: his only thought was […]

In 1972 a young woman living in England, just out of school and waiting to go to university, travelled to Zambia to work as a volunteer teacher at a mission school. She returned home to England via South Africa, catching a boat from Cape Town to Southampton. She only spent a few days in transit […]

Andrew Muchineripi Soccer comment One wag interrupted a prolonged perod of silence at Loftus Stadium in Pretoria on Wednesday night to ask a companion what the difference was between the Titanic and South African soccer. The Titantic cannot sink any further, came the sharp reply to much laughter, and while it may have been a […]

The way business approaches the Net is about to change radically, reports Neil McIntosh On the face of it, XML sounds dull. You won’t be able to see it, it will add no fancy animations or multimedia-rich content to your screen, and it doesn’t come with a metallic finish or colourful see-through skin. It’s a […]

MARIANNE MERTEN, Cape Town | Friday 11.30am. THE fraud case against high-flying mafioso Vito Palazzolo was postponed on Friday morning in the Cape Town Regional Court until February 11 next year. Palazzolo, out on R500000 bail, was arrested earlier this month by the elite Scorpions police unit for fraud relating to false information he gave […]

Police have blamed the usual suspect, Pagad, but seem no closer to preventing a spate of festive season bombings in Cape Town, reports Marianne Merten Sunday’s bomb blast in Camps Bay again casts doubt over the state’s ability to deal with terrorism by a handful of people in Cape Town, despite having spent millions of […]

As the new mediator in the Burundi crisis, Nelson Mandela will have to work hard to convince the key players in the strife that they can benefit from peace.

prosperity Africa is the chief victim of growing US stinginess, writes Karen De Young Americans have set a record for stinginess in one of the most prosperous decades in their history. For as long as people have kept track, never has the United States given a smaller share of its money to the world’s poorest. […]

players’ Vivek Chaudhary The likes of David Beckham, Alan Shearer and Ronaldo may be idolised on and off the pitch and earn millions of pounds each year. But as far as Fifa, world football’s governing body, is concerned, the future is female. In a surprise attack on male professional football, industry delegates at a conference […]

John Matshikiza WITH THE LID OFF I am aware that there are those sceptics out there who believe that I make up most of the unlikely things that appear as gospel in this column. I can only say to them, “Keep enjoying the ride,” and I take refuge in the old maxim that says “the […]