Anthony Browne: SHARE WORLD As the financial whirlwind that started in Thailand 15 months ago engulfs the rest of the world, it is difficult not to be pessimistic. A quarter of the world is in recession, the United States and the United Kingdom may well follow, Brazil and China are struggling, while the Indonesian economy […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Nairobi | Friday 8.00pm. A FORMER senior official in the Kenya Wildlife Service was on Friday charged in the Nairobi High Court with the murder of British tourist Julie Ward 10 years ago. A lower court last month ruled that Simon ole Makallah had a case to answer and recommended that he be […]

Niki Barker It was the most unusual setting for a miracle. A dusty school hall, with pitted concrete floor, scattered desks and scrawled chalk on the blackboard. A small group of expectant German tourists sat sideways in the small school chairs in the damp heat of a Zululand afternoon. And then the sound came from […]

Andrew Muchineripi : Soccer More than a quarter of the 1998/99 Castle Premiership fixtures have been completed and the shock leaders are Bloemfontein Celtic, a club traditionally associated with the relegation zone rather than the top of the table. How have the 18 teams fared in the first nine rounds of the richest national championship […]

Anthony Orliange Manga and Sori are youngsters about to finish school. In the evening they meet, “to revise for exams”, as they tell their parents. Actually, they share amorous moments of tenderness in Sori’s car, or outside cafs. Tired of concealing their relationship, they try to come out. But under such dire circumstances they are […]

funds The new census figures prove that several provinces are not receiving a fair share of the national spending pie, writes Ann Eveleth South Africa’s poorest provinces may have to struggle with a “Cinderella” funding complex for the next five years, in spite of new census figures that prove they are underfunded. It will take […]

David Gleason : A SECOND LOOK Anglo American Corporation chair Julian Ogilvie-Thompson’s announcement last week that it is to become a United Kingdom registered company with a primary listing on the London Stock Exchange poses as many questions as it does answers. The decision to shift Anglo’s head office to Britain follows the path blazed […]

Maggie Davey Forty tons of apartheid government files are estimated to have been destroyed by the National Intelligence Service (NIS) in 1993, according to Professor Charles Villa- Vicencio, director of research at the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC). Villa-Vicencio was speaking at a workshop organised by Wits Graduate School last week on future access to […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Thursday 7.20am. PROMISING South African tennis junior Dirk Stegmann advanced to the quarterfinals of the Central African tennis satellite after he beat Marcel du Coudray 4-6 7-6 (7-3) 7-6 (7-5) in the Zambian capital Lusaka on Wednesday. The 15-year-old from Willowmore will now meet top-seed Justin Bower on Thursday. Bower can […]

Andy Capostagno : Rugby Spring has always been a time of celebration. The time when John Barleycorn, cut down in the summer, returns to the fields with renewed vigour. But Gawain didn’t think much of spring, since it signalled the return of the Green Knight, who had a licence to chop off his head. And […]