Chris Gordon The Democratic Republic of Congo faces a new form of colonisation – this time from its ally, Zimbabwe, which last year intervened in the war to save President Laurent Kabila from being ousted by rebel forces. Now it’s payback time for the broke government of President Robert Mugabe. If a deal for the […]
Howard Barrell OVER A BARREL It is the government’s job to put our tax money where our mouths are. We expect it to allocate revenues to the priorities we have agreed. This makes the annual budget, which sets tax and spending targets, the cutting edge of policy. But who is to decide how the edge […]
year’s Booker Prize?And who has been left out? DISGRACE by JM Coetzee (Secker &Warburg) An embittered, disgraced Cape Town professor goes to live with his daughter on an Eastern Cape farm, where they are savagely attacked. The prose never spills a drop, and is almost bloodless in its pale perfection. – James Wood FASTING, FEASTING […]
Peter Hammond RIGHT TO REPLY Your correspondent, Ivor Powell, accuses me of “gun-running” and “of supplying military hardware and training to Sudanese Liberation Army rebels” in the front page banner headline article, “SA pastor in row over gun-running to Sudan” (September 23 to 30). I wasn’t aware of any such row – it would appear […]
Barbara Ludman INDIANA GOTHIC by Pope Brock (Review) Anyone who hasn’t a skeleton in the family cupboard isn’t looking hard enough. Pope Brock didn’t have to look far – there had always been rumours of something funny about Great-Grandmother Maggie, something weird about the sudden death of Great-Grandfather Ham. Eventually, an elderly great-aunt steered Brock […]
Robert Kirby Channel Vision His teeth are naturally immune to stain, so that when he releases a full blown smile, the naturally white teeth discharge a rediation (sic) pregnant with sweet joy and real happiness for those lucky ones who are fortune (sic) to be around him. No, the above is not part of a […]
David le Page Product: StarOffice suite Requirements: Any robust PC running Windows 95/98/NT, Linux, OS/2 Price: Free for personal and commercial use You can now download Microsoft Word – in fact the whole of Microsoft Office – free of charge from the Internet. Well, that might be exaggerating a bit. Okay, you can download a […]
Evelyn Groenink and Mail & Guardian reporters The special prosecutions team which is trying to prove that the Civil Co- operation Bureau’s (CCB) Witwatersrand unit, region six, is solely to blame for the murder of Anton Lubowski, and that the motive for the murder was purely political, may well be looking in the wrong place. […]
kick butt Donna Block October is upon us and it’s time to fasten those seat belts once again as the mood on Wall Street turns ugly. It was little more than a month ago that the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) closed at a record high of 11 326, up 23% since the beginning of […]
The contest should be on the field, not everywhere else, writes Andrew Muchineripi I am not one to share my troubles with the world. Suffer in silence has long been the motto of the ever-increasing Muchineripi clan, so please forgive me when I make an exception to the rule. To be frank, I am extremely […]