The <i>M&G</i>’s <b>Niren Tolsi</b> speaks to Durban municipal manager Mike Sutcliffe about his expectations for the World Cup.
With 30 days to go, it is becoming clearer that South Africa will host a thoroughly well-run Soccer World Cup.
Nelspruit’s wildlife-inspired stadium offers scant comfort to the scarred locals, writes <b>Niren Tolsi</b>.
The cash-strapped public broadcaster hires space for the World Cup from a middleman at a hyper-inflated rate.
It’s not fear of crime or a race war that’s keeping visitors away from the World Cup — it’s the exorbitant prices charged by Match.
Organisers of the Soccer World Cup opening ceremony are still waiting for R80-million in funding, writes <em>Niren Tolsi</em>.
Invitation to the East Asian nation’s football team to train in Bulawayo evokes memories of a massacre.
Accusations of negligence reignite anger still harboured by KwaZulu-Natal’s overstretched medical staff.
Spier Contemporary 2010 is as much about the exhibition and the rewarding of some of artists as it is about creating a platform for the marginalised.
Warning: Prolonged cynicism about Fifa’s intentions in South Africa can lead to all sorts of dreadful side effects.
The selection for this year’s Spier Contemporary exhibition has moved away from ‘rainbow nation’ niceties, writes Niren Tolsi.
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/ 22 February 2010
Despite the paltry child support increase, 16‑million citizens have reason to smile, writes Niren Tolsi.
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/ 12 February 2010
State Security Minister Siyabonga Cwele and his wife Sheryl enjoyed a holiday in Mozambique last year, contradicting claims that they are estranged.
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/ 5 February 2010
The testimonies of a telecommunications expert and two alleged drug mules will form the backbone of the state’s drug case against Sheryl Cwele.
The IFP has been divided by a succession battle to replace Buthelezi, made more acute by the party’s poor showing in last year’s national general election.
Niren Tolsi joins Hindu devotees for kavady, the yearly ritual of self-mutilation to curry favour with the deity Muruga.
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/ 29 January 2010
Bafana Bafana’s 3-0 win against Zimbabwe was a flattering result, writes Niren Tolsi.
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/ 22 January 2010
Ahead of the World Cup, Durban’s street children are being forcibly removed from the city centre, writes Niren Tolsi.
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/ 22 January 2010
Coach Carlos Parreira is inculcating a greater sense of positional and tactical awareness in the Bafana squad, honing their intuition.
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/ 15 January 2010
South Africa’s wilful myopia regarding Angola is glaringly obvious, argues Niren Tolsi.
Niren Tolsi drops in on the Dutch — who are bidding for the 2018 World Cup — and sees the game through Oranje-tinted glasses.
Until the end, Dennis Brutus lived as he looked, the shock of unruly white hair as irrepressible as the inveterate activist.
Didier Drogba and Samuel Eto’o will be aiming to leave impressions as gargantuan as the craters that pockmark the streets of the capital, Luanda.
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/ 11 December 2009
Miss World contestant belongs to an organisation directly linked to an American religious cult with a litany of child and sexual abuse scandals.
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/ 4 December 2009
Niren Tolsi wonders whether documentaries made by the West about the developing world can ever really be authoritative.
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/ 13 October 2009
Winston Monwabisi Mankunku Ngozi passed away on Monday night. The acclaimed tenor and soprano saxophonist was 66 years old.
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/ 11 October 2009
The hatchet job on Durban’s Kennedy Road informal settlement continued this week with an alleged "healing process" by the KwaZulu-Natal government.
Even at the remove of an email interview, one can’t help noticing the calmness of Ilyas Tunç, writes Niren Tolsi.
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/ 15 September 2009
Niren Tolsi visits an exhibition that tackles contemporary issues using ancient narratives.
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/ 10 September 2009
Winston, the homing pigeon who beat Telkom’s broadband capacity to transfer information in a race, is emerging as a media and internet darling.
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/ 8 September 2009
Evoking a yearning for la dolce vita is La Perla restaurant in Sea Point. Opened by Emiliano Sandri 40 years ago, it’s been in the family ever since.
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/ 7 September 2009
Jacob Zuma’s visit to Angola did much to warm relations between the two countries, but some things were left unsaid.