Philippa Garson THE plight of prisoners with HIV will be brought to the fore when an application is lodged by the Aids Law Project on their behalf. The application, to be heard in the Rand Supreme Court soon, will attempt to prevent these prisoners from being abused and stripped of their rights. It will also […]
RUGBY: Jon Swift WITH the emphasis so firmly on the trials and tribulations of the South African team in New Zealand, there is cause for a pause and a thought on the future of the Lion Cup which reaches semi-final stage this weekend. The national side will continue to play tests both home and away […]
As MPs get ready to reconvene parliament next week, Ian Clayton analyses the tensions in the Government of National Unity THE fragile political unity in the Government of National Unity — with the ANC, the National Party and the Inkatha Freedom Party as unlikely bedfellows — is coming under strain as MPs and party members […]
Outrageous acts on the field and selection blunders off it have blighted the South African tour of New Zealand RUGBY: Barney Spender IT has hardly been the best of weeks for the South African touring team. In the space of just five days they have lost a test series to the All Blacks, seen a […]
White opposition politics has been discredited and the main hope for black opposition, the Pan Africanist Congress, is in tatters. A new black opposition party is needed, argues Vuyo Mvoko OUR battle has not ended with the hoisting of the colourful new flag and the singing of Nkosi Sikelel’i Afrika. And it would be reckless […]
SOCCER: Ray Nxumalo A WHISTLEMAN who has lost the respect of players and officials is not worthy of officiating at a game whose result may endanger lives of spectators, the players themselves and further tarnish the image of a game so bedevilled by scandals. The image of soccer is soiled in the eyes of spectators; […]
CINEMA: Fabius Burger Best Film at the Edinburgh Film Festival and recipient of the Critics Award at the Venice Film Festival, Leon the Pig Farmer has a lot to live up to. Luckily, it’s a funny movie. The plot’s about a mix-up: Leon Geller (Mark Frankel), a nice Jewish boy with a compulsion about honesty, […]
Johannesburg Prison inmates who have tested HIV-positive are stigmatised, abused and denied rights granted to other prisoners, they told Philippa Garson ‘IT’S like you’re a snake that someone caught,” says “Ben”, “a snake that everyone comes to look at.” He’s struggling to find the right words to describe what it feels like to be HIV-positive […]
WHEN General Roy During (59) disclosed the existence of a hit-squad within his own force, it reflected the deep chasm that had opened between himself and his colleagues during his reign as KZP commissioner. An “outsider” in the force, During was more comfortable with the policemen of the new South Africa than with those trapped […]
The president throws a thank you party for ‘struggle’ veterans and over 1 000 guests from around the world turn up, writes Sibusiso Nxumalo