‘I don’t care too much for money, money can’t buy me love” … except on St Valentine’s Day of course. Valentine’s Day has never been especially important in my household but it’s always been a good excuse for my son to gorge himself on chocolate. It will be a washout this year as well since […]

TOP German cyclist Jan Ullrich heads a strong field for South Africa’s premier cycling event, the Vodacom Rapport Tour, which starts in Cape Town on Friday and ends on February 19. The 26-year-old Ullrich, 1999 Tour of Spain and 1997 Tour de France winner, leads the Deutsche Telekom team, one of 15 six-member teams competing […]

Channel vision Last Sunday’s Newsmaker interview with Mr Thabo Mbeki should be released on video as a teaching aid, for use in first-year state-of-the-art political sycophancy lectures. Marketed overseas it could become an academic gotta-have. If ever there was a demonstration of how callow and smarmy it is possible to become, this was it. Snuki […]

Terry Bell unravels the murky past of the former Wits fine arts professor who siphoned aid funds into security police coffers, and is now in hiding in Spain Superspy Craig Williamson’s Spanish connection, Avio Barraclough (75), has gone to ground in Spain fearful of an official probe into his role in apartheid’s dirty war. The […]

AMNESTY International warned on Thursday that the government of the Democratic Republic of Congo is intent on killing 61 prisoners despite promises not to carry out further executions. “These 61 men now face an imminent appearance before the firing squad after being convicted by a military court in proceedings that contravene international standards of fair […]

While the mothers of Westbury counsel one another, their daughters have found their own forms of association, writes Khadija Magardie They have suffered. For decades the mothers, daughters, wives and grandmothers of Westbury have borne the brunt of the frustrations and broken dreams of the community’s men. Violence, rape, domestic assault and even murder of […]

downtown PE Barry Streek The first major land redistribution deal involving prime urban land has been sealed in Port Elizabeth, where about 4E000 people will soon be given plots in the middle of the city centre. The Department of Land Affairs is to pump R42-million into the residential development, which will span 140ha of land […]

Andy Capostagno Rugby The Y2K-compliant Super 12 was launched this week. For the new millennium the South African Rugby Football Union (Sarfu) has found a new sponsor (Vodacom), the Cats and the Bulls have apparently exchanged shirts, a New Zealander will be coaching a South African franchise for the first time and a new set […]

Pat Schwartz RIVONIA’S CHILDREN: THREE FAMILIES AND THE PRICE OF FREEDOM IN SOUTH AFRICA by Glenn Frankel (Jonathan Ball) The 10 years since the unbanning of the African National Congress and the South African Communist Party (SACP) have brought with them a plethora of biography, autobiography and memoir evoking the hidden history of “the struggle”. […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Harare | Friday 8.00pm South Africa is poised to rescue Zimbabwe from its crippling fuel and looming electricity energy shortages, a Zimbabwean cabinet minister said on Friday. Nathan Shamuyarira said at the end of talks between President Thabo Mbeki and Zimbabwe’s President Robert Mugabe in Harare on Friday that they discussed the country’s […]