Thuli Nhlapo and Evidence wa ka Ngobeni As the nation was celebrating the 44th anniversary of National Women’s Day this week, some women across the country were being sexually assaulted and others gang-raped. Women’s rights organisations have expressed outrage at incidents of rape on the public holiday reported at police stations around the country. The […]
The presenter of a new television programme on food was part of the world of people who carried out some of the most ghastly deeds in the name of the apartheid state Terry Bell The new food and travel programme on e.tv has almost certainly attracted an unlikely niche audience: a small group of Truth […]
It is time to turn our attention away from academic debates and look to the role of men in the spread of the disease Suzanne Leclerc-Madlala There is a mystery at the heart of the Aids epidemic in Africa that scholars have explored but have been unable to explain. This mystery has nothing to do […]
Barbara Ludman Black Notice by Patricia Cornwell (Warner Books) Patricia Cornwell is calming down. Either that, or those of us who have read all her books are getting accustomed to the horrors of the autopsy room. So when forensic pathologist Dr Kay Scarpetta slides the skin off a decomposing corpse, or when the kidney falls […]
In June MPs heard that domestic covert collection activities had stopped in 1996 – they were lied to Howard Barrell Defence force intelligence has continued to collect information covertly inside South Africa despite a ministerial undertaking to Parliament that it ceased doing so in late 1996. Its covert domestic intelligence activities have included surveillance and […]
Congo Hadebe’s first staged play, about a group of women living in a park, covers everything from religion to sleep deprivation Merle Colborne The small man with the brown, knobbly face, wearing a GUD labourer’s jacket and a lean, infrequent smile, seems discomfited sharing a table at the Playhouse Coffee Shop with this umlungu poking […]
Five lucky Friday readers can each win a set of nine Patricia Cornwell titles -her full backlist, which has just been reissued in paperback with new covers. They are: Post- Mortem, Body of Evidence, All That Remains, Cruel and Unusual, The Body Farm, From Potter’s Field, Cause of Death, Unnatural Exposure and Point of Origin. […]
hearings Marianne Merten and Peter Robinson The interim report of the King commission into cricket match-fixing – to be submitted to the government this Friday – is widely expected to recommend disci- plinary hearings for suspended cricketers Herschelle Gibbs and Henry Williams, who admitted they agreed to underperform in a one-day match in India. The […]
David Beresford Another Country Some years ago I had my first book published – the realisation of which had been a childhood ambition and the experience of which turned me against it as a profession. The publisher so far exceeded civilised parameters of incompetence that I was seized with the idea I had fallen victim […]
Nicoli Nattrass and Jeremy Seekings a second look There has been mixed reaction to the massive volunteer effort to clean and rehabilitate thousands of oiled African penguins. While most people applaud the rescue of this endangered species, others have cast moral aspersions on it. “Why help penguins rather than the poor?” asked a politically correct […]