PRESIDENT Nelson’s Mandela’s youngest daughter, Zinzi Mandela-Hlongwane, was found in a suspected stolen vehicle in Soweto on Wednesday night.
Kwame Dawes SALT by Earl Lovelace (Persea, R107) IT has been over 10 years since Earl Lovelace published his last novel, The Wine of Astonishment, so it is wonderful that Salt has been honoured with the Commonwealth Prize. It is his most assured work to date, and it allows him to display his remarkable capacity […]
THURSDAY, 5.00PM ZIMBABWEAN Congress of Trade Unions president Gibson Sibanda has castigated the government for high budget deficit, saying it is a major contributor to workers’ suffering through high interest rates and inflation levels. “The biggest problem in this country is the budget deficit, which is causing high inflation, which is the worker’s enemy number […]
EVIDENCE of the fascination sharks can exert on humans can be found in cyberspace, where a number of sites are dedicated to them. South Africa’s own is, of course, the site of the Natal Sharks Board, at http://goofy.iafrica.com/carch/ (carch being short for Carcharodon, the creatures’ Latin name). The board supplies statistics and research information, as […]
Lizeka Mda recently discovered that South Africa’s ambassador to the United States is a consummate salesman WAYZATA is a picture postcard pretty town some 30 minutes south of Minneapolis and St Paul, Minnesota, with a population of about 3 000. On this Saturday afternoon, the weather is perfect for the northern hemisphere June – balmy […]
premiership row Wally Mbhele THE blazing row between the African National Congress and its alliance partners over the appointment of Gauteng Premier Tokyo Sexwale’s successor could sweep into the party’s crucial December conference. Sexwale moved this week to douse the row, which has threatened to split communists and non-communists in the province. But some ANC […]
*Kolya: Czechs and balances EASTERN Europe produced some terrific films in the days when directors had to skilfully weave their way around the state censor. Yet, since the fall of communism, the former Eastern Bloc has virtually become a cinematic wasteland. The reason is clear – state subsidies dried up. This only emphasises what the […]
race Lynda Loxton SOUTH AFRICA risks falling behind in the information technology (IT) race if it fails to step up the training and education of IT users and practitioners, according to a new study. University of Cape Townacademics James Hodge and Jonathan Miller say in the latest issue of the university’s Trade and Industry Monitor […]
SOCCER: Andrew Muchineripi ZIMBABWE stand alone among the leading football teams in Africa as the only one never to reach the biennial Nations Cup finals. This weekend the Warriors have another opportunity to erase 17 years of frustration when they travel to Angola needing a draw to secure a ticket to the tournament in Burkina […]
Gustav Thiel HENNIE MARAIS, Western Cape director of the South African Narcotics Bureau, is resigned to his officers doing little more than watching the drugs coming into the city, and occasionally checking the flow. They no longer bother with dagga, or even with releasing information about their successes in drug convictions. “There are 100 000 […]