ATHLETICS: Julian Drew DESPITE all the criticism which has been levelled at Okkert Brits for failing to deliver when it really counts, he still remains South Africa’s best chance for a gold medal at the world athletics champ- ionships which begin in Athens next week. And with the legendary Czar of the Vault Sergei Bubka […]
Cycling:William Fotheringham THE young German Jan Ullrich has shown such power and assurance in the Pyrenean stages of the Tour de France that he is unlikely to be threatened by his Danish team-mate, last year’s winner Bjarne Riis. Ullrich’s rise has been spectacularly fast. Last year he won the final time-trial stage and finished second […]
educates … is illegal Focus on drugs: Be it dagga or cocaine, from KwaZulu-Natal to Colombia the only way poor rural communities survive is by growing illegal crops Eddie Koch and Enoch Mthembu THE lives of three people who live in different places along the banks of the Tugela, a majestic river that dissects some […]
The meeting between President Nelson Mandela and East Timorese Nobel peace laureate Jose Ramos-Horta has been shrouded in secrecy.
FRIDAY, 3.00PM KENYAN police fired shots in the air four times on Thursday to disperse youths armed with whips and knives who were fighting outside parliament and attacking MPs. In the parliamentary chamber, opposition members accused Nairobi MP Fred Gumo, a member of the ruling Kenya African National Union (Kanu), of organising the “thugs” to […]
The discovery of radioactive scrap metal in the Free State could be a sign of widespread contamination, writes Ferial Haffajee RADIOACTIVE contamination way above international safety limits has been uncovered in the heart of the Free State’s gold fields. The Council for Nuclear Safety (CNS) said this week it had detected high levels of radiation […]
assassinations? Ferial Haffajee A COURT case in the Thabazimbi Magistrate’s Court on Friday could hold the key to a spate of mysterious assassinations at Anglo American’s Amplats platinum mines in the North-West and Northern provinces. Twenty-two suspects arrested in the past fortnight at Amplats’ Amandelbult mine in the Northern Province will apply for bail. They […]
Hazel Friedman ‘I FIRST encountered Phillip Hunt’s ”blobs” in a group exhibition – Intimations of Millennium held at Newtown Galleries in 1995. Even then, they were extraordinary. Thick, tactile tar-like paint sploshes and spillages that invited visceral responses like licking or scratching … They featured in works consisting of photographic emulsions of sculpted classical deities, […]
FRIDAY, 2.30PM SEVERAL thousand marchers gathered outside the gates of Parliament shortly before noon on Friday to present a memorandum to an official of Deputy President Thabo Mbeki’s office. The protesters, all members of public servants’ sector unions affiliated to the Congress of SA Trade Unions, marched peacefully to Parliament through the streets of Cape […]
THURSDAY, 4.00PM ZIMBABWEAN President Robert Mugabe reshuffled his cabinet on Wednesday, merging eight ministries into four, creating a new one and appointing three ministers of state and two deputies. The ministry of local government, rural and urban development has been merged with public construction and national housing to become the ministry of local government and […]