Jaspreet Kindra Former homeland leader Lucas Mangope is considering abandoning his alliance with the Democratic Party in favour of a partnership with the Pan Africanist Congress of Azania ahead of the local government elections. PAC sources said this week that Mangope, the leader of the United Christian Democratic Party (UCDP), has been in exploratory discussions […]

Rupert Neethling With the arrival of Windows Millennium, home users are asking themselves whether they should shell out yet another couple of hundred rand for an upgrade. However, if you’re among those who would rather see how long they can keep on going with what they’ve got, you may be pleased to hear that with […]

Peter Robinson cricket In a month during which nothing much is happening in South African cricket, the silliest row of the year broke out when Gauteng were persuaded to sulk in public at not being invited to a four-team bunfight at Kingsmead on October 1. SuperSport has put together a 25-over hit-and-giggle tournament as a […]

Andy Capostagno rugby It might not have occurred to anyone in a position of power in South African rugby, but Conrad Jantjes has just had his life rearranged. The Lions utility back, with Blue Bulls wing Rayno Hendricks, is at the centre of the row over quota manipulations. Jantjes is one of those rare talents […]

The tripartite alliance has not patched up its differences ahead of the municipal elections, and deeper cracks remain Howard Barrell, Glenda Daniels, Jaspreet Kindra and Barry Streek Leaders of the ruling tripartite alliance came away from their meeting at a secret venue outside Johannesburg on Monday without having resolved any of the deep- seated policy […]

Justin Arenstein Mpumalanga Premier Ndaweni Mahlangu’s buffoonish and often petty behaviour is endangering Southern Africa’s largest public infrastructure project, the R25- billion Maputo Development Corridor (MDC), and is scaring away international investors, a new international study warns. The damning Lessons from the MDC Toll Road study, funded by the Canadian government and compiled by the […]

Conservative whites lack the cohesive political leadership that is necessary to lead them beyond the laager of exclusion Charles Villa-Vicencio ‘Every time a white person speaks in this conference, another white stands up and says he or she is not speaking for me.” An observation made at the recent racism conference in Sandton. At Stellenbosch […]

Tigana Jon Henderson Jean Tigana could have been excused for feeling nervous at the start of the Football League season. He knows as well as anyone that Mohamed al-Fayed’s munificence – a salary of about oe500 000 for the new manager and resources to buy players that no other first division club enjoys – comes […]

couture set Charl Blignaut It was a classic case of a headline in search of a story, but still, South African Fashion Week (SAFW) will one day be grateful to journalist Craig Jacobs. He may have been the subject of more elegantly hissed expletives than any other hack in the history of local fashion, but […]

The controversy surrounding the John Robbie interview with the minister of health has clouded the real issues about HIV and Aids Timothy Trengove-Jones We are all familiar with the details of the case Minister of Health v John Robbie. We also all know the theory that history repeats itself, first as tragedy, then as farce. […]