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This week’s Talkback question on the Mail & Guardian Online: Are there problems within Cope’s leadeship, or is the party experiencing teething problems?

By Errol Hendrickse I wrote an article for Mix Future Interiors magazine a little while back that looked at the collaboration between Africa and Europe, and I want to touch on this subject again. The reason I wrote it was to illustrate the amazing relationship the two continents have had and how this has moulded […]

The year was 2003, it was at the end of July and I was exploring the streets of lower Polokwane’s CBD in an attempt to map out the locations of every place that sold anything with a little chilli in it. Apart from the real Vetkoek Paleis and a decent Halaal Diner, there was not […]

Immediately after the collapse of the Soviet Union, communists spent endless nights analysing what it was that had brought the Soviet Union to its knees. A number of causes were found. Chief among them was the realisation that with the act of nationalising the economy and removing it from the hands of the bourgeoisie, the […]

While SA Rugby deals with charges from the IRB about bringing the game into disrepute and receives a sanctioning or fine regarding the senseless “masking-tape protest” there are distractions like the roll-out of the Currie Cup around the country, Craven Week in East London, Tri-Nations on July 25 in Bloemfontein against the All Blacks, Rugby […]

What’s the first thing you think of when you have visitors coming to your house? Is it not entertainment? It should be. Well, that’s if you do get visitors like mine, who share a jealously guarded appreciation for Charles, Jack and Johnny, mixed with smooth deep-house beats. I suppose my visitors are no different from […]

Admitting mistakes and failures is never easy, especially when accompanied with “I told you so”. However, when your mistakes, failures and woes are subject to immense publicity in mainstream media — as has been the (mis)fortunes of the Congress of the People — it is best not to deflect, defend or denyi. Instead, the party […]

He prowls the empty streets at night — waiting — in fast cars and on foot, he are the men of Hawk … or at least until they give him some little friends to play with. Don’t let me catch any of you lot sniggering. Do you think it’s easy watching the phones, making tea […]

As four European clubs line up to take part in the Amsterdam Tournament from July 24 to 26, you will notice that it has lost the magic it once possessed. Big giants of European football (Manchester United, Arsenal, Internazionale, Liverpool, Porto) dreamt of playing in this prestigious tournament at the Amsterdam Arena in the Netherlands, […]

By Zdena Mtetwa I have driven down Witkoppen road many times, coming from the Fourways direction in the early hours of the morning. But it took many times of doing this for me to wake up and see the view from the highway. One day, I looked afar and saw white and red lights, in […]

Like most kids, I did my time at Sunday school. Getting picked up in the church Kombi, singing, clapping, drinking Oros and eating Marie biscuits. I even played sheep number three in the nativity play. A really hot costume in the Durban summer. And of course I learnt the story of how God made the […]

In a surprising twist to the story that happens every year during the transfer window, not all is well at the Santiago Bernabeu. Real Madrid, flush with fresh and expensively shipped-in talent, have a simmering team crisis on their hands … and the season hasn’t even started yet. With the arrival of Ronaldo to the […]