DOCTOR Michael Nobel, great grandnephew of Swedish chemist, inventor of dynamite and Nobel prize founder Alfred Nobel, will visit South Africa next week to promote the International Non-Violence Project. The project is an international youth-based movement seeking to persuade young people to denounce violence and to promote alternative forms of conflict resolution.
THE “Rose of Soweto”, former world boxing champion Dingaan Thobela, has narrowly escaped a ban after weighing in seven kilograms overweight for his welterweight bout against Argentina’s Adrian Daneff last Saturday. The bout was reduced from a title fight to an international contest and Thobela forfeited half his purse to his opponent. That penalty led […]
SUNSAT, South Africa and Africa’s first locally produced and manufactured satellite — built at Stellenbosch University’s faculty of engineering — is in a stable condition of power, temperature and altitude after 15 days in space. Sunsat project leader Prof Garth Milne on Thursday said the satellite’s movement has been stabilised since it separated from the […]
Barbara Ludman MRS EINSTEIN by Anna McGrail (Anchor) A daughter was born to Mileva Maric and fellow student Albert Einstein a year before they were married. Baby Lieserl was given up for adoption in her mother’s village in southern Hungary so that the great man’s studies would not be disturbed. The two sons born after […]
GHANA, Morocco and Nigeria have applied to host the 2000 Nations Cup, the Confederation of African Football said on Friday. They will compete with original hosts Zimbabwe for the right to stage the 16-nation tournament from January 23 to February 13. The successful candidate will be named on Monday when CAF executives meet in Guinea. […]
THE United States wants an assurance that three US nationals arrested in connection with smuggling weapons into the country will not be ill-treated while in police custody. An official at the US embassy in Harare said his office will register its concerns if it finds the three are being mistreated. The state-controlled Herald newspaper reports […]
Neil Manthorp in Christchurch Cricket `It couldn’t have happened at a better time in my career. I grew up more in that week than I did in the rest of my life put together. If I hadn’t and I’d been the same person I was before then, I would never have survived, I just wouldn’t […]
Andrew Worsdale Movie of the week `Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.” So said award-winning playwright Tom Stoppard who, together with Marc Norman, penned the faultless script for Shakespeare in Love. If they don’t get an Oscar nod for […]
THE South African relief mission to flooded areas of Mozambique is proceeding, with two Oryx helicopters flying emergency supplies to Maimelane and Inhassorro. Assistance from a Japanese aid organisation was anticipated from Thursday night while the Red Cross and other organisations are already on the scene. They are working to pre-empt famine after the destruction […]
SPARKED by crop damage fears, white maize futures reversed their upward sprint on Wednesday and turned back from the R1000-a-ton mark. A dealer said white maize futures reversed between R10 and R16 on five of the six contracts because of failed export orders for the staple grain. Traders are revising their estimates for the total […]