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Neal Collins So it’s all off. The Champions League fixtures have been cancelled. No more talk of Manchester United’s “life-or-death” clash with Olymp-iakos, or the “tragedy” of Arsenal’s defeat at Real Mallorca on Tuesday. No, the sensible course has been taken. Call it all off; give us time to reflect, let life, for those of […]

Now the applications have been completed, officials are faced with the tough task of allocating fishing rights Barry Streek The first phase of one of South Africa’s biggest empowerment deals the allocation of new fishing quotas was completed this week. Between 6 000 and 9 000 applications were expected for the 1 000 to 1 […]

Alex Sudheim African Art Centre, first floor, Tourist Junction, 160 Pine Street. One of Durban’s top contemporary art galleries hosts a showcase of KwaZulu-Natal artistic talent titled Asibuke Abantu: Looking at People, an exhibition featuring the work of 31 invited artists. Some of the artists are well-known painters Sfiso ka-Mkame, George Msimang, Carl Roberts and […]

REVIEW Gavin Foster Toyota Camry, R175 651 to R270 320 The new Australian-built Toyota Camry is here, and it offers pretty well what its predecessor did spacious, safe, reliable motoring in a conservative package. Toyota says that the car is aimed at existing and previous Camry owners, and will be marketed as a family car […]

WAYNE COLE, Singapore | Wednesday POLICY makers and central banks around the world are pulling out the stops to prevent the US terror attacks from so unhinging business and consumer confidence that a recession becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy. Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas President Robert McTeer spoke for many on Wednesday when he said it […]

On the 20th birthday of the PC, the launch of Windows XP could be the end of DOS as we know it, says Jack Schofield At the end of last month the grey skies over Seattle turned blue after a week of rain, and a helicopter took off from the Microsoft campus with briefcases holding […]

Evidence wa ka Ngobeni Two days after the World Conference against Racism ended in Durban, thousands of Eastern Cape residents went on the rampage, looting shops belonging to foreign, Muslim businessmen. Kwanobuhle police spokesperson Senior Superintendent Nkosinathi Isaac, who described the incident as the “worst xenophobic incident ever in the Eastern Cape”, said Somali and […]

The US mobilises support from its Western allies for a crusade against Islamist terrorism Julian Borger in Washington, Richard Norton-Taylor and Ewen MacAskill in London and Ian Black in Brussels Nato is drawing up an emergency plan for a massive attack on Afghanistan if proof emerges that Osama bin Laden, the wanted Saudi-born terrorist sheltered […]

Chris Roper 3rd I Gallery, 95 Waterkant Street. Telling Tales is a group exhibition of narrative art work, art based on the classic theme of telling a story. The exhibition showcases art in a wide range of media and includes work by artists such as Lien Botha, Kevin Brand, Randy Hartzenberg, Peter van Straten, Arlene […]

in my beloved country this week from South Africa, which I have come to call home, has forced me to reflect on these catastrophic events in a way that is probably different from most of my fellow citizens living back home. While on the one hand millions of people around the world are horrified by […]

Nicholas Guyatt predicted the attack The American military has overwhelmed its opponents abroad and an increasing reliance on air power and guided missiles has mini-mised disruption or even awareness of these conflicts at home. Given the increasing pace of technological change, however, it is hard to believe that the United States will continue to go […]

Mail & Guardian reporter Combined Fishing Enterprises, one of a few of the genuine black-owned family businesses in the fishing industry, has weathered many a storm in realising its goals. Its vision is to become a formid-able force in the South African fishing industry and to have a world-renowned brand of quality products. The family […]

Ghosts of electricity CDs of the week Bob Dylan:Love and Theft; The Essential Bob Dylan Shaun de Waal The first track on Bob Dylan’s new album, Love and Theft (Columbia), makes one fear the worst. Hearing Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dum, with its careless rhymes and silly metaphors, you think: Oh no, not another Under […]

The clothes at this year’s Fashion Week were creative and youthful, more wearable and affordable Charl Blignaut Bustling through the doors two shows late and already out of breath on the first day of Fashion Week, you’ve got to wonder how there can be next to nothing going down in Jo’burg for weeks on end […]

Belinda Beresford As President Thabo Mbeki waded back into the controversy surrounding HIV/Aids, the government was preparing to defend itself in court against its former allies, the Treatment Action Campaign (TAC). The TAC lawsuit accuses the national and provincial health departments of breaching the Constitution by failing to provide anti-retroviral drugs to HIV-positive pregnant women. […]

comment Seumas Milne Nearly two days after the horrific suicide attacks on civilian workers in New York and Washington, it has become clear that most Americans simply don’t get it. From the president to passers-by on the streets, the message seems to be the same: this is an inexplicable assault on freedom and democracy that […]

Twelve useful-looking three-year-old males go to the post for the R125000 Falcon Sprint, a handicap over 1200m at Turffontein on Saturday, and a number of them have chances of taking home the winner’s stake. The David Ferraris-trained Appeal Process, a son of Australian sire Volksraad, has been allocated joint top weight by the handicapper and […]

Matthew Engel reports on the strange silence that has gripped the city that never sleeps By daybreak on Wednesday Manhattan had been divided into four zones. Like Berlin of old. The whole downtown area, below 14th Street, was officially sealed off by police, though residents, workers and anyone with ingenuity could get through. It was […]

Glenda Daniels In a major departure, the government has suggested incentives, rather than penalties, to induce farmers to observe a new minimum wage for farm workers. Minister of Labour Membathisi Mdladlana announced proposals for minimum rates for close to a million agricultural employees this week, ranging from R400 to R750 a month. They are the […]

Joseph Hanlon The fallout from the murder of a corruption-busting Mozambican banker may complicate South African banking giant Absa’s bid to buy the bank the murdered man headed. Banco Austral’s interim president, Antnio Siba-Siba Macucua, was thrown down a 15-storey stairwell at the bank’s Maputo headquarters on August 11, two days before Absa was to […]

CRICKET Peter Robinson The point about arrogance is that it usually helps to have something to be arrogant about. Shaun Pollock’s South Africans were accused of arrogance on the grounds that they spurned the opportunity to warm up in Harare, arriving in Zimbabwe just two days before the first Test, but it took them less […]

Richard Norton-Taylor and Jon Henley in Paris The CIA, the FBI and the United States’s national security agency spend billions of dollars a year gathering intelligence abroad and combating terrorism at home significantly more than any other country. Their satellites can spot vehicle number plates and eavesdrop on millions of e-mails and telephone calls, yet […]

Tusi Fokane broadcasting and the national question by Jane Duncan Broadcasting and the National Question is a well-articulated and carefully constructed argument that explores the socio-economic and political agenda of the media in contemporary South African society through a critique of the policies of neo-liberalism and the “constructed realities” of globalisation. Author, Jane Duncan, is […]

Paul Kirk A can of coke for R12,50. An 8km taxi ride for R200. These aren’t the prices one can expect in 2050, they were the prices charged and paid in Durban until last weekend. Within a day after the delegates attending the World Conference against Racism left Durban, prices crashed. During the conference a […]

Provided you use your head, you can save 20% on the book price of the car you want by buying at an auction Gavin Foster Buying a second-hand car can be a tricky business. Do you go to a dealer or look for a cheap private deal? What happens if you buy a lemon that’s […]

Mail & Guardian reporters New York City had received more than 11 000 body bags by Thursday, although the number of dead from the terror attacks on the World Trade Centre and the Pentagon remains uncertain. The body bags were sent to hospitals in the city. They were carried by a convoy of tractor trailers […]

Barry Streek Financial disarray in the government’s secret services and secret funds, reminiscent of the apartheid era, has been uncovered by Auditor-General Shauket Fakie in two reports tabled in Parliament this week. The reports show the transfer of R51-million of secret funds to the police without the approval of Minister of Finance Trevor Manuel, overspending […]

Jaspreet Kindra A security company is advertising the fact that it protects the South African president’s house. In a pamphlet that was distributed on Johannesburg streets this week, Chubb Armed Response/BBR Security states: “We protect the residence of our president and most corporate businesses in SA.” The pamphlet lists the fact that it provides security […]

REVIEW Gavin Foster Daihatsu YRV, R127 995 Funny little car, the Daihatsu YRV. It’s dinky. It’s fun. It’s quite lively. It’s very well equipped in some areas, with ABS and EBD, dual airbags, electric windows and an aircon as standard, but it falls down, rather unnecessarily, in others. Soundproofing could be better, the doors feel […]

analysis Larry Elliott It will be weeks, months, even years before the full economic effects of the disaster that befell New York and Washington can be assessed. But one thing is already certain: the impact will be colossal, not just on the United States but on the rest of the world. This was a shock […]

The former judge blunders on as he always has Comment Richard Calland Pricking the political mythology of contemporary South Africa is a precarious but nonetheless necessary pursuit. Take former Judge Willem Heath. Having conducted a persistent though ultimately self-corroding campaign to depict himself as the corruption-busting saviour of the new South Africa in the public […]

A South African athletics season that started badly improved in the last couple of weeks Martin Gillingham Anything’s possible at Athletics South Africa these days so it won’t come as any surprise if the powers-that-be in Houghton call a special meeting and declare that, from now on, the track and field calendar will start on […]