Gary Younge : BODY LANGUAGE Not for the first time the spirit of the United States Declaration of Independence and the rule of the American Constitution are at loggerheads. The founding fathers said everyone had the right to the “pursuit of happiness”. Now the state of Alabama has told women they have no “fundamental, constitutional […]
Niki Barker The KwaZulu-Natal marine environment is being plundered by unscrupulous fishing fleet owners who are taking advantage of the government’s inability to adequately regulate fishing operations off the coast. A recent shipping disaster in northern KwaZulu-Natal has revealed the lack of control of the lucrative prawn-fishing industry by the Department of Sea Fisheries. Prawn […]
Deon Potgieter : Boxing WBA , WBC, IBF, WBO, WBU, IBA, WBF and so forth. Looking at all the different world title sanctioning bodies, things are getting pretty confusing for fight fans. Terry Pettifer, Golden Gloves publicist, coined the phrase: “It’s the alphabet soup of world boxing” and indeed that’s what it seems to be. […]
A dynamic team is driving the vision of Johannesburg as the motor of African growth – and not not the Third World slum it is in danger of becoming Bafana Khumalo A trio of knights has ridden into the city of Johannesburg with plans to bring it back from the abyss. On the biggest steed […]
Karlin Lillington Here’s one for the “but enough about you; let’s talk about me” department. At the All About You website () you can take a personality test designed by a Berkeley PhD student and submit it for instant analysis of your key characteristics. You also get a percentile rating for where your quirks and […]
Andrew Worsdale picks his Oscar winners – and those the academy is likely to choose The race for the golden statuette is very interesting this year: more independently financed films than ever before and a foreign film nominated both as best picture and best foreign film – one of only three times. Roberto Benigni’s Life […]
Peter Dickson Thieves in Port Elizabeth’s Kwazakhele township this week stole Sophakama High School. On Tuesday its 11 classrooms were still there, but when pupils arrived on Wednesday morning, they had vanished along with the surrounding security fence. The only evidence the school had ever been there were concrete struts embedded in the foundation. “I […]
THE descendants of Saartjie Baartman, the Khoikhoi woman known as the Hottentot Venus, have given a French museum until July to return her remains to South Africa, SABC TV news reported. Baartman was displayed as a freak in Europe at the turn of the century until she died in Paris at the age of 25. […]
FORMER land commissioner and African National Congress member Joe Seremane has been chosen by the Democratic Party to represent Mmabatho in the North West in June’s election. Seremane, a former Robben Island prisoner, joined the DP six years.
The venue that hosted Codesa has been transformed into a gambling den. Bafana Khumalo reports The “miracle” of South Africa’s transition from apartheid to democracy was painfully hammered out at the World Trade Centre in 1993 after months of negotiation at the Congress for a Democratic South Africa (Codesa). Today, this hall of democracy has […]