THE South African Department of Foreign Affairs has released an update on South Africans missing in New York who may have been affected by the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon. The department said it had sent a list of eight SA citizens to US authorities for confirmation that they are indeed […]

Seven years into our democracy the poor still appear to possess only the right of access to courts to ensure that the government treats them with respect. The latest illustration of this sad manifestation of our politics occurred in the case of Ngxuza and others v The Permanent Secretary, Department of Welfare, Eastern Cape Provincial […]

THE University of the North on Wednesday vehemently denied reports that students held weekend strip shows on campus. Student Representative Council (SRC) president Nation Mthenjane said no one had ever stripped on campus. He said posters had been put up advertising a strip show, but that it was a gimmick to advertise a student bash. […]

In the bewildering days after Tuesday, I felt anger against the US’s self-righteous proclamations, overlaid with a religious veneer. How would five decades of US atrocities around the world, I asked people, compare to Tuesday’s atrocity? What about a look at the less respectable things America has done over the past 50 years, to see […]

Jaspreet Kindra Moves are afoot to force two top South African Communist Party officials, general secretary Blade Nzimande and his deputy, Jeremy Cronin, out of the African National Congress’s national executive committee (NEC). A senior SACP central committee member, who asked not to be named, said the ball was set rolling at the ANC’s inner […]

Johannesburg | Friday SOUTH Africa’s black and white chambers of commerce formally merged on Thursday despite strong reservations from the black and Afrikaner business communities. The National African Chamber of Commerce (Nafcoc) and the South African Chamber of Business (Sacob) said in a statement that they had formed a transitional body called the South African […]

Support for the United States could spark a hardline uprising in Pakistan Rory McCarthy In a stuffy room on the third floor of an ageing hotel in a smart Lahore suburb sat the men who threaten to bring Pakistan to its knees. More than 50 of the nation’s most hardline clerics met on Monday to […]

“Further consultation over proposed amendments to the Constitution is needed” Barry Streek In an unusual move, the African National Congress head of Parliament’s local government committee, Yunus Carrim, has publicly urged further consultation on planned constitutional changes that have controversial implications for local government. Carrim’s intervention signals for the first time that the ANC is […]

BRENDAN BOYLE, Cape Town | Friday A COALITION of church, labour and civic groups challenged President Thabo Mbeki and his government on Thursday to acknowledge the scale of the HIV/Aids epidemic ravaging South Africa. “No one in our country can afford to deny the terrible extent of this epidemic,” the group said in a statement […]

Jaspreet Kindra Only three of the nine provinces are likely to elect provincial African National Congress office-bearers this year, amid a chaotic scenario where branches are being dissolved and reestablished in line with new municipal boundaries. ANC spokesperson Nomfanelo Mayosi-Kota says the Western Cape, Northern Cape and Gauteng are the only provinces likely to stage […]