FRIDAY 12.00NOON: TWO men believed to be members of the hijacking gang suspected of murdering two couples in Cape Town last week were shot dead at a police roadblock on Thursday. Following the arrest of two suspects in the case, police received information that two further suspects intended fleeing the Western Cape in a bakkie […]
Tom Quoin : Architecture Our deurmekaar country is filled with maddening contrasts. None more stomach- churning than the bald differences between the spacious settings in which planners and politicians live and the crushed layouts they’ve dumped on most of their fellow citizens. Though each rises on the same scattered suburban pattern — single plots for […]
FRIDAY, 4.30PM: SOUTH Africa were almost pipped at the post by New Zealand in an electrifying limited overs match at the Gabba that realised close to 600 runs. After scoring 300 runs in their alotted 50 overs South Africa climbed into the Kiwi batsmen with a vengeance. The tenacious New Zealanders fought back grimly throughout […]
balance Now that the elections are over, Kenyans are waiting to see if their country will prosper or slide into internecine violence. Eddie Koch reports There is a place at sea, about two nautical miles from the coastal town of Shimoni and a little north of Kenya’s border with Tanzania, that echoes Ernest Hemingway’s depiction […]
Mark Atkinson in Seoul Been to the January sales yet? Picked up any bargains? Britain’s Procter & Gamble has; so too has Germany’s Robert Bosch. Not in the big department stores of London, New York or Paris, of course. This sale is taking place in South Korea, and on offer is more than a new […]
Mahluli Mngadi : In your ear Is Fine Music Radio (FMR) just a cosy club for white classical musical lovers masquerading as a community radio station? Station manager Leslie McKenzie vehemently disagrees. He tells me about the ”more handsome, genuine, less automatic sound” that FMR has been striving for. He quotes the station’s mission statement […]
The transistor was invented 50 years ago. Joanna Bawa reports on the significance of the device There were only nine days to go to Christmas but the two physicists had other things on their minds. Huddled secretively in a corner of their laboratory, John Bardeen and Walter Brattain were building a primitive device whose impact […]
THURSDAY, 12.30PM: LANCE KLUSENER may face the first ball in Friday’s one-day match against New Zealand in Brisbane after Adam Bacher’s poor performance recently as opening bat. Klusener will probably open in place of Bacher, who will again be overlooked for the shortened game. Captain Hansie Cronje has indicated that the changes might be made […]
THURSDAY, 6.00PM: IT has emerged that President Nelson Mandela overruled truth commission legislation guidelines to ensure that apartheid president PW Botha’s legal team was paid almost double the going rate for representing a potential witness. Justifying the decision this week, Justice Minister Dullah Omar said: “Mr Botha is a former head of state of South […]
IN BRIEF PUPIL DEMOS OVER MATRIC The Congress of South African Students (Cosas) plans to picket businesses, private schools and government offices at the end of the month in protest at the poor matric results. The protests will support a Cosas demand that businesses help to sponsor schools, and to object to the continued government […]