Planning for the next generation of readers
Plunging newspaper circulation figures are a warning of changes to come in our society...
THE SUNDAY TIMES fired the first shot two weeks ago with a headline "Citizen eclipses The Star".
It's knowing what's inside that counts
California's problems with OJ are nowhere near as bad as ours...
When I left Durban in 1986 nearly everyone sold these little or large plastic bottles of orange juice with an inoffensive seal stamped onto the bottletop or label: "Approved by the Citrus Exchange for purity".
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Too powerful an icon to be put behind bars
For those who stand astonished at the OJ Simpson verdict, let's refresh our memories...
There was a time when giants were known to walk the earth. They went by such names as Zeus, Jupiter, Woden, King David, Lord Rama, and Lord Krishna. They personified power. They revelled in it.
You need never bark at the moon alone
Remembering that you are not the only lunatic in the world can really brighten your day...
My last job was as a research scientist at the Centre for Advanced Studies, Research and Development in Sardinia, that Italian island in the middle of the Mediterranean.
Noble art or just barbaric battering?
When two men get into a ring and deliberately and systematically pummel each other for 12 rounds, why are we surprised when they kill each other?
I FLEW into the UK on a magnificent unseasonably warm autumn Sunday at around the time that they finally disconnected Scottish bantamweight ch
Fine minds forced to render service abroad
My mother has a copper covered elephant statuette with a broken trunk.
When is it justifiable to take another's life?
The gunning down of a 70-year-old Hillcrest grandmother has touched a chord even among the crime-inured residents of this province.
When Mrs. Greener was shot in cold blood in Hillcrest on October 11, most of us were outraged. Many of us still are.
His death brought Israel back into the fold
The assassination of Yitzhak Rabin will prove to be every bit as pivotal in the Middle East as that of Chris Hani in our own land...
WE were the unlikeliest of companions.
There should be no exception under the law
The Nigerian junta raised an interesting question this week...
When suspected drug dealers were summarily executed under the same tribunal system that condemned Ken Saro-Wiwa, why, they asked, did the world remain silent?
The question was valid because it confirmed what I said
On oysters, smart worms and 'gosh' numbers
Even Durban's Battery Beach offers opportunity to relax and contemplate the wonders of the universe...
ONE is not normally able to do this on Battery Beach because of the crowds.
