The Kruger National Park is selling off ‘surplus’ and ‘problem’ animals that often face horrors when they reach their new homes Fiona Macleod South Africa’s premier game reserve, the Kruger National Park, is selling off its wildlife without restrictions to unscrupulous hunting outfits. At least six lions have been sold in the past year to […]

Unlike their counterparts in 1976, the ‘African renaissance’ youth need to grapple with problems posed by, among others, wars, child soldiers, child labour, drug abuse and trafficking, and globalisation Sifiso Ndlovu Writing about the history of the Soweto uprising and the present represents coming to terms with a traumatic past. This process of remembering against […]

SOUTH African Airways has turned an operating loss last year of R130-million into a profit of R557-million this year, SAA chief executive Coleman Andrews announced on Tuesday. The national air carrier cut costs by more than R300-million and increased its revenue from R8,5-billion to R9,8-billion in the past year. More than 1200 staff have left […]

David Beresford ANOTHER COUNTRY Many years ago I interviewed the former British prime minister, James Callaghan. He was foreign secretary at the time. The event was unremarkable, except that it was conducted in a nursery school classroom. We could not find anywhere to sit and he ended up wedging his considerable frame into one of […]

The description of the game of cricket as a metaphor for life has never been as apt as now, in the midst of the so- called “Hansiegate” match-fixing scandal. As allegations and disclosures pour forth testifying to the self-serving greed which inspired these heroes of times so recently gone by, the impulse of the holy […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Cape Town | Wednesday 5.00pm. THE Springboks will be without the services of prop Cobus Visagie when they take on England in the first of two Tests at Loftus in Pretoria on Saturday. Visagie is carrying a rib cartilage injury and has been sidelined to avoid aggravating the injury. Sarfu media liason Alex […]

Brenda Atkinson MARKETING THROUGH MUD AND DUST by Muzi Kuzwayo (Ink Inc) One would think that the advertising industry in South Africa would be at the frontier of research into selling products to black South Africans, the so- called “emerging market” of the post- apartheid era. But a pervasive cultural ignorance lingers and plays out, […]

Mail & Guardian reporter The Cape High Court has dealt a severe blow to press freedom by ruling that the reputation of an institution outweighed a reporter’s right to freedom of expression. The Freedom of Expression Institute (FXI) and the Mail & Guardian are considering appealing against the decision, which upheld the expulsion of a […]

Merryman Kunene SOCCER After many unsuccessful attempts to get a friendly game against Bafana Bafana, Swaziland will finally test their might against their more celebrated neighbours in a Cosafa Cup quarterfinal on Sunday in Witbank. Swaziland’s national team, popularly known as Sihlangu Semnikati (The King’s Spear) have longed to engage Bafana Bafana. However, they might […]

UREGENT moves were afoot on Thursday to get the Sierra Leone national soccer team to travel to Nigeria for this weekend’s World Cup qualifier against the Super Eagles, sports ministry officials said. The statement came a day after the team refused to board the helicopter which should have taken them to the country’s international airport […]