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Simon Kuper Luxembourg were on a roll. They had just taken a 2-1 lead in Belgrade and were being cheered on by the Yugoslav fans. But then, in an unfortunate 14-minute spell, they conceded five goals and it was all over. Last month, just three days after that match, Luxembourg manager Paul Philipp was called […]

Mungo Soggot The family of African National Congress stalwart Thomas Nkobi has implicated ANC heavyweight Joe Modise in an allegedly fraudulent ploy by a businessman embroiled in the arms scandal to use Nkobi’s name in bids for defence contracts. Shabir Shaik, whose Nkobi Holdings company was raided last month by the Scorpions as part of […]

Sundowns have to overcome Petro Atletico to reach the Champions League final Ntuthuko Maphumulo Some teams make history, others are part of history, and Sundowns will be looking to add a new chapter to the history books of the African Champions League this weekend. Only one team from Southern Africa has won the continent’s top […]

NO blows BARRED Sipho Seepe To defend the indefensible one must resort to some twisted logic. To maintain and reproduce its values the apartheid government relied on the big lie of white supremacy. To sustain this big lie it had to marshal other lies. This included misrepresentation of the Bible to provide theological justification of […]

Marianne Merten The chance discovery of two hidden cameras and a listening device in the Cape High Court has again put the spotlight on the state’s conduct in prosecuting five high-profile members of People against Gangsterism and Drugs (Pagad) for the 1996 murder of Cape gang boss Rashaad Staggie. Only three months ago state prosecutor […]

North American responses to anthrax highlight the apparent hypocrisy of the developed world’s position on patents Belinda Beresford Faced with the threat of a killer disease invading its borders, the Canadian government acted with commendable swiftness, acquiring a stockpile of one of the best antibiotics to treat it. But because the patent holder couldn’t supply […]

Matt Haig One thing to have survived the dot.com slump intact is the obsession for e-business acronyms, and B2T, referring to the business-to-teenage online market, is the latest. As teenagers are typically receptive to new technologies, companies targeting this market are being advised to use the Internet not only as a medium to communicate their […]

The residents of one of the Cape’s most popular coastal towns are working together to find solutions to conflict Tracey Farren Muizenberg, the once-grand town near the point where two seas meet, is back from the dead. This time it has a blacker face and speaks a multitude of languages. Writers, artists, tradespeople and refugees […]

Granite: Granite, like the gladiators of ancient Rome, is the toughest of the tough, the meanest of the mean. His motto is: “You can achieve anything in life as long as you believe in yourself.” Spider: Take heed of what this “hanging man” has to say: “Make as many friends as possible and have lots […]

GLENDA DANIELS AND DAVID MACFARLANE, Johannesburg | Friday A “cowboy style” management dictates the running of e.tv, causing a massive staff turnover that threatens the survival of the free-to-air broadcaster, staff members say. The controversial three-year-old TV station is racked by infighting. This, the shenanigans of top management and an ongoing financial crisis, say e.tv […]

It is with much disgust that I note your lack of professionalism as an editor of a major South African publication when you tell Hansie Cronje to “fuck off”. A more objective and insightful view is what I would expect from an editor like yourself, but what should I be expecting from someone as crass […]

Charlene Smith Should women stop on isolated roads for unmarked vehicles occupied by men who may or may not be wearing police uniforms? In a country where police vehicles and cars are routinely stolen and women are often forced off the road and gang-raped, I think any woman who stops her car in a lonely […]

Niki Moore In a high-tech, sealed room in the Sugar Experimental Station at Mt Edgecombe, human figures move around in white lab coats and sterile coverings. No, they’re not developing a new killer virus to wipe out mankind as we know it they’re actually breeding thousands of caterpillars. The caterpillar in question, however, has the […]

How keeping fit is different for girls BODY LANGUAGE Rachel Cugnoni Men are weird in so many ways but they are at their weirdest when they play football. I’m not talking about the freaks who make a living out of it but the kind who spend their Sunday mornings shouting things like “man on” and […]

analysis Khadija Magardie Last week’s violence at the Zandspruit informal settlement in Gauteng, last month’s looting and burning of Somali-owned shops in Uitenhage and undoubtedly several undocumented attacks directed at foreigners, pose a serious question. Not whether locals become salivating mobs at the thought of a “kwere-kwere” moving in next door. But whether public education […]

Staff fear that infighting and an ongoing financial crisis will soon lead to the TV station’s demise Glenda Daniels and David Macfarlane A “cowboy style” management dictates the running of e.tv, causing a massive staff turnover that threatens the survival of the free-to-air broadcaster, staff members say. The controversial three-year-old TV station is racked by […]

The minister of finance also announced an increase in HIV/Aids spending Barry Streek and Glenda Daniels In the government’s first move to promote job creation through the tax system, Minister of Finance Trevor Manuel this week announced tax breaks for companies that employ new workers as learners. The announcement was a key feature of the […]

Marianne Merten Teenagers are wearing it. The elderly are wearing it. For weeks the only visible member of Muslims against Illegitimate Leaders, Abduraghman Khan, has been sporting it while claiming to have signed up about 1 000 volunteers for the war against the United States. It is, of course, the Osama bin Laden T-shirt. Various […]

I refer to the article by David Macfarlane titled: “We can’t afford silence” (October 26). I don’t understand why leading educationists in South Africa, the Education Department and Kader Asmal don’t just spell out the reason for the 85% drop in qualifying teachers, other than the effect of HIV/Aids. Government policy has caused the closure […]

The Springboks embark on their end-of-year tour without the excuse that they’re in a rebuilding phase Andy Capostagno The itinerary may include Genoa and Houston, but the Springbok tour of 2001 can hardly be called a trip into the unknown. If anything, the players and management know rather too much about what to expect from […]

John Young If your idea of a braai is burnt chops and dodgy wors over stuttering flames, then a universe-expanding experience awaits you at this weekend’s Chateau Libertas World Barbecue Championships, to be held at Canal Walk, Century City, in Cape Town. Barbecued musselcracker tandoori, rooibos-smoked tomatoes, waterblommetjie risotto and a prune, bacon and corn […]

Martin Gillingham At least two of Australia’s top rugby league clubs are trying to tempt troubled Wallaby winger Andrew Walker into making a return to the 13-man game. It’s barely five months since Walker was the toast of Canberra when he kicked 21 points for the Brumbies in their 36-6 triumph over the Sharks in […]

Santos eliminated Ajax Cape Town to enter the semifinals of the Coca-Cola Cup Ntuthuko Maphumulo It took 90 minutes of regulation play, 29 minutes of extra time and a golden goal by Jean Marc Ithier on Wednesday to secure Santos a berth in the Coca-Cola Cup semifinal against Kaizer Chiefs this weekend. Ajax Cape Town […]

BOXING Deon Potgieter Saturday’s fight at Carnival City between World Boxing Union (WBU) featherweight champion Cassius Baloyi and WBU junior-lightweight champion Phillip Ndou is not only a contest between the two popular Northern Province boxers, it’s also a grudge match between their trainers. Baloyi’s trainer Brian Mitchell and Ndou’s Nic Durandt are known as the […]

Glenda Daniels Loyalty to a company, together with lifetime employment, is a thing of the distant comfortable past. This worldwide trend is particularly pertinent in South Africa where retrenchments are rife. More than one-million jobs have been lost over the past decade according to the Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu). But managers still […]

PEDZISAI RUHANYA, Harare | Thursday ZIMBABWE’S Deputy Minister of Transport and Communications, Christopher Mushowe, has acquired a masters degree in Public Administration, but he failed the exam. High Court judge Elizabeth Gwaunza slammed the vice-chancellor of the University of the Zimbabwe, Professor Graham Hill, for awarding Mushowe a pass mark, even though he failed the […]

THE Nigerian government on Wednesday decided that the country’s budget for 2002 should be based on a price of $18 per barrel of crude oil, as against $22 for the current year, a minister said. The government plans to spend about 843-billion naira ($7,5-billion) in 2002, with capital expenditure accounting for 414 billion naira ($3,7-billion), […]

TWO South African Airways flights were grounded on Thursday night, after flight attendants and personnel in Cape Town discovered a latex glove and “white powerdery substance” on a plane being readied for flight to Johannesburg. According to SAA, all personnel were ordered to leave the aircraft. The police were called, and chemical decontamination specialists Waste […]

THE South African government is concerned about the deaths of civilians in Afghanistan, and has called for constraint in the use by the US of military strikes, an official said on Tuesday. “While South Africa recognises the right of the United States government to track down the perpetrators of the September 11 terrorist attacks to […]

SIX staff members at the US consulate general in Durban, South Africa, were taken to a hospital for tests after an anthrax scare Tuesday, said public relations officer Amelia Broderick. She said the secretary to consul general Craig Kuehl opened a typed envelope, addressed to the consulate general, which contained “an unidentified white powder”. “We […]

EGYPTIAN President Hosni Mubarak offered support to the United States in its war on terrorism, but reiterated his opposition to a prolonged conflict that goes beyond Afghanistan, in an interview with Newsweek magazine. “I support the United States in fighting terrorism,” Mubarak said in the interview to appear in the weekly’s Monday edition. “We suffered […]

GLENDA DANIELS, Johannesburg | Friday AMENDMENTS to the Labour Relations Act – recently hailed as a major breakthrough between labour, business and the government – remain bedeviled by controversial sticking points and may not see the light of day this year. Hitches remain over the right to strike on retrenchments, seen as the major concession […]