CAPE TOWN’S noisy street party came to a stunned halt shortly before 7.00PM as the city learnt that it had lost the Olympic Games for 2004 to Athens.

Over 800 students share five roofed classrooms, while for 600 others school is out if it rains. Craig Bishop reports Patrick Masakala (18) walks six kilometres to school each day. When he arrives for the first lesson of the day he shares his teacher with 100 other students, and his classroom with another class. Masakala […]

Feng shui seems to be a New Age fad, but it was the cornerstone of the development of Chinese science, medicine and architecture, writes Lorraine Pace Brandishing mirrors and wind-chimes, plants and decorative items, the Chinese practice of feng shui promises health, wealth and happiness. But much of the information on feng shui borders on […]

FRIDAY, 2.00PM CAPE Judge President Gerald Friedman on Friday urged the National Party and the Truth and Reconciliation Commission to seek an out of court settlement in the interests of national reconciliation. He was speaking at the start of an NP court application to dismiss TRC deputy chairman Alex Boraine and declare that commission chairman […]

Adam Haupt It’s a white, white world out there. This was the inescapable conclusion that Sharief Cullis, director of Stonehouse Communications, and Chris Gutuza, director of the Media Training and Development Trust, reached after the Rugby World Cup in 1995. Involved in media development work since the 1980s, they had hooked up with the Rugby […]

adversity Mark Lamport-Stokes : Cricket Yin and yang; darkness and light; setback and advantage. Any of these stark contrasts could be used to encapsulate the burgeoning career of Zimbabwean fast bowler Henry Olonga. In the space of the last 18 months, the popular 21-year-old has had to face square on the numbing adversity of being […]

Chris Gordon Diplomatic attempts to pull together Angola’s peace process have reached the 11th hour, with a unanimous vote by the United Nations Security Council to impose sanctions on the Angolan rebel group Unita for non-compliance with the peace accords. The sanctions will come into effect on September 30. The next moves now depend on […]

The fiction of Ian McEwan has often dealt with lives abruptly altered. This excerpt from his new novel, Enduring Love, depicts the impact of a freak accident The beginning is simple to mark. We were in sunlight under a turkey oak, partly protected from a strong, gusty wind. I was kneeling on the grass with […]

power’ entrenched at Wits Mahmood Mamdani South Africa has a gender commission, a minorities commission, a human rights commission, but not a race commission. Could it be that the framers of the Constitution presumed that majority rule would necessarily be majority race rule, and so there would be no need for a commission to offset […]

FRIDAY, 11.00AM: THE European Union’s R600-million-a-year aid package for South Africa is not being spent due to technical problems, leading to the EU cutting disbursements. It is believed that SA’s slow spending of the aid money will make it difficult for EU officials in Brussels to secure further development assistance programmes for Pretoria when the […]