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 […]
persists’ Mercedes Sayagues Hang around the tarmac at Luanda’s airport awhile and you’ll get a crash course in the politics and economy of Angola. The relief plane has to wait. Aid is not a priority. Military planes are. Every four minutes one roars by. Unmarked Iliyushin and Antonov 12s and 26s; Air Azerbaijan and dozens […]
Stephen Heyns As Cape Town’s natural environment – considered the city’s most important economic asset – rapidly becomes degraded, a radical transformation of the city’s structure has been proposed. For the poor, life is inconvenient, expensive, unsafe and environmentally hostile, and there is a need to make the city’s structure more equitable, integrated, efficient and […]
More than one million people work in craft-related industries, but the government has yet to come up with financial support for this important sector.
Peter Dickson The Eastern Cape government has posted this week as the final deadline for new applications and applications for the reinstatement of welfare grants. The announcement was made despite an “indefinite” extension in May and the inability of district surgeons to cope with the number of applicants to be re- examined. The short notice […]
Ivor Powell speaks to National Director of Public Prosecutions Bulelani Ngcuka about his plans to bring down the kingpins of crime When National Director of Public Prosecutions Bulelani Ngcuka took office, he approached colleagues in the intelligence services requesting what was effectively a hit list. What the newly appointed crimebuster was looking for was the […]
Arts Alive Festival manager Roshnie Moonsammy hits out at freeloaders who badger festival staff Remember – throughout the years of the cultural boycott, South Africans missed out on seeing their favourite artists. One such artist was Fela Anikulapo Kuti. Many loved him and respected his political commitment to eradicating racism and poverty in Nigeria, and […]
Amy Lawrence Gliding over the deep red lino in thick claret socks which flap around his calves, Joe Cole looks like your average teenage apprentice milling around the training complex. His life is about to change for ever. He is about to embark upon a journey of infinite possibility. If fortune favours him, he could […]
Fiachra Gibbons In the time-honoured tradition of the Booker, all the leaks about who would be shortlisted this year were wrong. Salman Rushdie, Vikram Seth and Roddy Doyle – the heavyweight “favourites” for this year’s prize -didn’t make the shortlist. Instead, South Africa’s JMCoetzee is up for the prize for the second time. The chairman […]