Pretoria Girls High has been dragged into the sleazy underworld of crime and drugs Thuli Nhlapo and Thebe Mabanga Just a few months ago, Tanya Oosthuizen was one of South Africa’s luckiest teenagers – a bright, young and attractive brunette, head girl of one of Gauteng’s leading schools with a range of lucrative professional careers […]

ball Merryman Kunene Bafana Ngonzwane, a Standard 7 pupil at Malvern High, hails from Dobsonville in Soweto. He and his friends, Gift Sibeko and Vuyo Mrali, have long abandoned playing football in the township using balls made of plastic, bricks for poles and the occasional R5 bet that comes with it. All three have enrolled […]

President Thabo Mbeki has launched a campaign for an international economic system more advantageous to developing countries Howard Barrell President Thabo Mbeki is not given to timidity when it comes to “the vision thing”, as George Bush called it. Having declared his intention as vice president to rouse Africa into renaissance, as president he is […]

The Olympic Games are just two months away and Sydney is gearing up for the big event Grant Shimmin in Sydney I was finding it a little difficult to believe. I mean, here I was in the city where it would soon all be happening and there seemed to be nothing to tell me about […]

Bryan Rostron Consider, in the light of Zimbabwe’s election, this report on the political background to the renaissance: “Now, if the interests of the ruling class are at stake, the Constitution is no longer altered, but simply abused, the ballot boxes are falsified, the officials bribed or intimidated.” The economic consequences, meanwhile, are all too […]

Harry Pearson Last week I attended one of the jewels in the sporting calendar, the village first- school sports day. It was a sunny afternoon, the attendance was good and all the children got a chance to take part. As the afternoon progressed I watched kindly mums wink at six-year-olds who had just finished last […]

Simon Bowers Like one of the young sorcerer’s own spells, Pottermania is producing some unexpected results in bookshops across the globe. While many stores agree that JK Rowling’s Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire – the teenage wizard’s fourth adventure – is the fastest selling book they have seen, the hype and hysteria surrounding […]

DAVID MAGERIA | Nairobi | Thursday 10.30am. EGYPT insisted it would not lift a newly introduced duty on Kenyan tea until Kenya applied preferential regional tariffs to all Egyptian exports. Egypt imposed higher duties on Kenya’s tea last week in the latest eruption of a trade dispute between the two countries. The move followed Nairobi’s […]

Claire Bezuidenhout review OFTHEWEEK ‘The XIII International Aids Conference theme, ‘Break the silence’, is an acknowledgement of the many silences which surround HIV/Aids – from the silence of communities which obstruct acceptance and disclosure, to silences which prevail across the nations estranged by colossal inequities and divided by towering debts,” reads the press release for […]

MARIAM ISA, Johannesburg | Thursday 10.30am. SOUTH Africa’s Communications Minister Ivy Matsepe-Casaburri said she will challenge a high court order delaying her approval of the winning bidder of the country’s third mobile phone licence. In documents set to be presented to the court on Friday, Matsepe-Casaburri will argue that an interdict preventing her from acting […]