MOZAMBIQUE has appealed for $2.7-million to help victims of flooding from torrential rains that have swamped parts of southern Africa, the United Nations said on Friday. Donations will be used to purchase emergency supplies including inflatable boats, life jackets, life buoys, tents, as well as ropes, torches and pumps, the UN Office for the Coordination […]

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 […]

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”. […]

JUDGMENT has been reserved by the Pretoria High Court until Friday on whether loose-forward AJ Venter is contactually binded to the Golden Lions, or whether he is entitled to play his rugby for the Sharks. The Lions applied for a High Court order declaring that Venter cannot play for any other side, and that they […]

Matthew Krouse CD of the week ‘The purpose of this album is to invite the world to discover the authentic, dynamic underground sound of the Japanese and European new jazz scene.” Oh, all right then – whatever that means – let’s turn it on. With such a heady pitch, brashly reckoning that the album is […]