Amway has arrived in South Africa. Its products may work but the marketing is a minefield for the uninitiated, warns Andrew Worsdale On June 20, at 3.13pm, my household (or at least my PC) received unsolicited e-mail from Australia. Id never heard of the correspondent, nor sent unbidden cyber-mail to him. It said: I am […]

FRIDAY, 3.00PM ONE of the country’s most wanted men was arrested on Friday morning in connection with a series of murders and other acts of violence in the Richmond area of KwaZulu-Natal, police said. Spokesman Director Reg Crewe confirmed that Skumbuza Patrick Ndlovu, 30, known in the Richmond area as “Comrade Bob”, was arrested at […]

Deion Sanders is a great footballer, a mean baseball slugger, a reformed womaniser, a born-again Christian (surprise) and a top shoe salesman. Hes nursing a bad divorce |and a worse injury. George Kimball reports on a hectic start to the NFL season On a recent Sunday morning the parishioners of an Atlanta church were the […]

Christopher Zinn An odd sign adorns the entrance to the small national park on Norfolk Island, a tiny island in the middle of the South Pacific. It reads: ?Yorlye Cum Look Orn,? which, in the rich Norfolk language of 18th-century English and Tahitian, means: ?Do come and have a look.? And well you might, for […]

Andy Duffy The controversial private deportation camp linked to prominent African National Congress women faces closure. The Ministry of Home Affairs fears it can no longer afford to pay the women?s group, Dyambu Holdings, to continue using its camp, and is expected to end the contract by year- end. Lindela camp, in Randfontein on the […]

Harry Joyce in Oslo and Ian Black in London The United States has spurned intense pressure to back a worldwide ban on anti- personnel landmines, saying its security would be compromised if it signed a treaty hailed as a victory for humanity and a tribute to Diana, Princess of Wales. The treaty, negotiated in the […]

Maria McCloy Okay, okay. we all know The Shell Road to Fame or The Hell Road To Shame, as some call it is a clever marketing thing from Shell, but the crowd who got in for free to the Sun City Superbowl last saturday had a damn good time. It was packed, and there was […]

Wally Mbhele The number of African National Congress branches in Gauteng has risen dramatically from 400 to about 500 in recent weeks, a development interpreted by some members as a bid to load the dice against their favourite contender for the position of a new provincial chair, advocate Mathole Motshekga. This startling growth came as […]

Chris McGreal in Nairobi It was all so familiar to more sceptical Kenyans. Under pressure from a disgruntled electorate at home and suspicious governments abroad, President Daniel arap Moi appeared to give away the store by agreeing to sweeping reforms before this years general election. The government talked of a great moment in Kenyas history. […]