Donna Block Share World For months now my husband, the spending phenomenon, has been nagging me to get a real job and get back into my pre-journalistic profession – stock-broking. And to tell you the truth I’ve been seriously thinking about it. After working on Wall Street for most of my adult life and watching […]
THE United Democratic Movement at Bushbuckridge on Thursday claims an Independent Electoral Commission official crooked the voting at nearby Cunningmoore polling station. United Democratic Movement spokesman Jerry Nkuna said the two-thirds majority achieved by the African National Congress at Cunningmoore on Wednesday was obtained fraudulently, and blamed IEC presiding officer Harries Maile. Nkuna said in […]
THE Angolan army has recaptured from rebels the small town of Cuima in the central Huambo province, officials said on Thursday. An army spokesman said 10 Unita rebels were killed in last week’s battle about 80km south of Huambo. The army also announced it has destroyed a Unita base in Caala, southwest of the provincial […]
Mungo Soggot The United Democratic Movement this week slated the business community for the African National Congress’s majority, saying business could have thwarted the landslide victory had it supported opposition parties The UDM emerged as a significant opposition player, on track this week to bag at least nine seats in the National Assembly, which will […]
Anthony Egan TREVOR HUDDLESTON: A LIFE by Robin Denniston (Macmillan) For a figure of such importance to the anti-apartheid struggle, Archbishop Trevor Huddleston has been largely overlooked as a subject for biography. His life has largely been told through his own writings – which combine Anglo-Catholic theology, militant anti-racism and an anecdotal style – or […]
Drive-in movies are about to take on a whole new meaning as in-car entertainment gets under way. Ashley Norris reports Forget I-Spy! If the kids in the back of your car are restless, you’ll soon be able to entertain them with Rugrats: The Movie on digital versatile disc (DVD) in cinema-style surround sound. In the […]
John Matshikiza I enter Namaqualand from the south, the day before the elections. I have left behind Malmesbury and Riebeeck-Kasteel, small towns in the north of the Western Cape that cling to another age, a hundred years ago and more. Each town radiates outward from the solid little white church at its centre. Beyond are […]
It may be worth losing a few percentage points growth on your investments in exchange for a peaceful night’s sleep, writes Shaun Harris Investment decisions should be amoral, shouldn’t they? In a perfect world, perhaps. But suspending moral judgment is not easy in modern society where the profit motive is still widely regarded with suspicion […]
JAMES SMALL, one-time top Springbok try scorer and record holder for Test caps, was left out of the Lion’s Currie cup squad of 22 players released on Monday, and his immediate future with the Ellis Park-based union hangs in the balance. Uncertainty surrounds the controversial Small’s intentions since his return from playing for a World […]
There’s retro, as in Oasis’s admiration for the Sixties, and there’s retro, as in Kula Shaker’s note-for-note reconstruction of them on their new album called Peasants, Pigs and Astronauts. This follow-up to their chart-topping debut, K, covers the same territory as before, mixing up shimmery, Hammond organ- infused psychedelia and a philosophy that boils down […]
Claude Kabemba A Second Look The rebellion against the government of President Laurent Kabila in the Democratic Republic of Congo stands at the crossroads. Divisions within the rebel Rassemblement Congolais pour la Democratie (RCD) movement and within the Uganda/Rwanda rebel alliance has placed a serious question mark on the ability of the rebels to win […]
Peter Makurube The release of three jazz albums at the same time? It’s enough to overwhelm the ancestors of South African jazz – a night of their dreams! June 5 sees the launch at Mega Music Warehouse of three new CDs by artists who’ve stayed in the country, who neither emigrated nor sold out to […]
THURSDAY, 6.30PM: SOUTH AFRICA are in a spot of bother at tea on the first day of the first Test at Edgbaston with Mike Atherton and Mark Butcher forging an unbeaten opening partnership of 151 to place England in a very healthy position on Thursday. The English batsmen kept cool heads after they had been […]
TANZANIA and Kenya plan to co-host the 2004 African Nations’ Cup finals, the Football Association of Tanzania (FAT) said on Monday. FAT Secretary-General Ismail Aden Rage said FAT and its Kenyan counterpart, the KFF, reached the decision when top officials of the bodies met in Nairobi last week. Rage represented FAT in the meeting while […]
The discovery of minutes that expose how the National Party regime sealed the fate of Matthew Goniwe and three others could be the most important breakthrough during the past five years where discovering the truth about our grisly past is concerned. For the first time South Africans have been presented with concrete evidence that the […]
Philippa Garson Class Struggle There’s nothing like an avalanche of blunt facts to send politicians and theorists scuttling back to the drawing board – at least one hopes so. When confronted with the disturbing, grainy footage of real life, rather than the crisply sanitised version stamped on to the pages of our many White Papers […]
living from the soil Ian Clayton Out of a population of 180-million in the Southern Africa Development Community (SADC), only one in 10 has a job in the formal sector and only about 20% of the economically active population have jobs, a Norwegian researcher, Liv Torres, has established. This gives an unemployment rate of nearly […]
Robyn Hofmeyr Jeremy’s friend and neighbour Sunday, a typical highveld winter evening. Temperature inversion, the smell of thousands of coal-smoke fires. It’s early evening, not a great time if you’re the parents of young children. My youngest kid is fractious, he wants his bottle and clings to my trouser leg while my older kid whines […]
Mungo Soggot The Pretoria High Court has dealt another blow to the Mpumalanga Gaming Board by refusing leave to appeal against a court order instructing them to hand over videotapes and documents of its deliberations. The decision is the latest in a series of court orders which have reversed or implicitly questioned decisions taken by […]
DAVID SHAPSHAK, Johannesburg | Thursday 5.40pm. STORMERS player representative Andy Marinos and captain Corne Krige will face an independent disciplinary committee hearing next Thursday about their team’s refusal to play in a Super 12 semi-final. The Stormers were crushed 33-18 by the Otago Highlanders on May 22 after they refused to take the field unless […]
TONY LAWRENCE, London | Friday 11.00am. PAKISTAN and South Africa meet on Saturday in what may prove to be a dress rehearsal for the World Cup final. Mark I, however, will be as hotly contested as Mark II. South Africa, edged out by Pakistan as tournament favourites over the last few days, badly need to […]
A PASTOR from Rwanda’s Episcopal Church and a former army major were condemned to death for genocide Thursday by a special military tribunal, official radio announced from Kigali on Thursday. “The military court condemned to death gendarmerie major Anne-Marie Nyirahakizimana and pastor Anastase Ngirinshuti for genocide, murder and association with criminals,” the radio said. It […]
SARAH BULLEN, Cape Town | Friday 9.00pm THE Independent Electoral Commission admitted huge errors in its accounting of unverified results late on Friday night as results continued to swing like a pendulum over and then back again behind the mark of an African National Congress two thirds majority. Results late on Friday afternoon showed the […]
THE International Monetary Fund on Thursday hailed Sudanese moves to reverse 20 years of economic decline but called for “broader and deeper” reforms to consolidate gains made to date. The IMF, according to a summary of recent discussions of the Sudanese economy by Fund directors, expressed satisfaction with Sudan’s implementation of IMF-monitored programs in 1997 […]
Wally Mbhele makes very bold statements about the disunity of the African National Congress in the Free State (“Fresh splits in the Free State ANC”, May 21 to 27). And the article has done a disservice to the understanding of the nature of Free State politics. Essentially, Mbhele sees red in the ANC where it […]
David le Page Free cellphones are subsidised by the cost of the contract – that’s why you generally need to take out a 24-month contract, and why cellphones are often locked so they can only be used on one network. Which raises some obvious questions. How much do contracts cost if you’re not buying a […]
Last weekend M-Net presented prizes totaling R230 000 to the winners in the various language categories of the annual M-Net Book Prize, given to a novel published within the previous year. The winners were: l English: The Tikieline Yuppie by Mehlaleng Mosotho (Vivlia) l Afrikaans: Op Soek na Generaal Mannetjies Mentz by Christoffel Coetzee (Queillerie) […]
Alex Sudheim The 1999 Durban Designer Collection was a bold attempt to knock fashion from its elitist perch and teach it how to live by its wits on ground level. One of South Africa’s most prominent style events celebrated its 20th birthday this year by throwing the silky plumed bird of fashion out of the […]
FRENCH President Jacques Chirac sent a message to Moammar Gadaffi praising the Libyan leader for his efforts to bring peace to Africa, Libyan state television said on Thursday. Chirac said “France supports Colonel Gadaffi’s efforts to establish peace and stability in Africa,” the television station said. “Libya plays an important role in the Mediterranean area, […]
`Historic” is not the way most observers have described this week’s general election. The black majority, with the exception of the inhabitants of rural KwaZulu-Natal, voted overwhelmingly and predictably for the African National Congress, while the opposition parties squabbled over the crumbs of “minority” voters. But any event that at once signals the exit from […]
Chris Gordon The Angolan government published its accounts for the first time in April, revealing that it has no foreign exchange reserves. While the short-term financial position has been improved by an oil-backed loan and signing fees from new deep-water exploration areas, the longer-term position depends now on Angola’s relations to the major international financial […]
MEMBERS of the new Lagos state assembly engaged in a free-for-fall fist fight, throwing punches and hurling chairs around the chamber ahead of its formal opening on Wednesday, all broadcast on television. Tables were overturned and chaos reigned in the assembly. The reason for the brawling was a dispute over the election of the assembly […]