Charlene Smith The working class know how to breakfast – no queuing at fashionable restaurants with two hours’ worth of make-up layered on your face, eternally swivelling eyes to check out who’s with who and 60 bucks for muesli and a delicate fan of strawberry. The working class have breakfast when the blood still hasn’t […]

Thousands of crooked police officers escape dismissal from the South African Police Service due to a loophole in police disciplinary measures. Paul Kirk reports Some of South Africa’s most notoriously crooked police members are escaping censure and staying on full pay as they exploit a loophole in the disciplinary regulations of the South African Police […]

Rupert Neethling “You will be assimilated. Resistance is futile.” – The Borg, Star Trek: The Next Generation South Africans who want an Internet dial-up account or who wish to switch to a different Internet service provider (ISP) are discovering that as far as the major ISPs are concerned, they have few choices. Six months ago, […]

Peter Dickson A week after the government unveiled its controversial National Aids Council (NAC), Aids activists around South Africa have united online to form an alternative watchdog body, the Shadow National Aids Council (SNAC). “Every move, statement and omission will be monitored by SNAC,” outspoken Eastern Cape health official Dr Costa Gazi announced this week, […]

Marianne Merten The University of the Western Cape has dismissed allegations of financial mismanagement against senior lecturer Dr Rose September after an internal investigation. “This matter has been investigated and is now closed,” said UWC rector Professor Cecil Abrahams. It was alleged that September had been paid twice for an overseas air ticket to attend […]

STEVEN MANN, Cape Town | Thursday 5.00pm. PETER Hain, Britain’s minister of state for Africa, reiterated his country’s commitment to strengthening ties with Africa and rebuilding the war-torn continent, but provided scant new detail as to how this would be done. Hain delivered what was billed as a “major announcement” on Britain’s policy in Africa […]

Cameron Duodu LETTER FROM THE NORTH Having only recently flown in an Airbus, my heart went out to the passengers on the Kenya Airways plane which fell into the sea a few minutes after taking off from Abidjan. I swear I noticed a shudder in the aircraft, followed by what seemed to be a buffeting […]

l Acenet – www.acenet.co.za l Adept Internet (currently Cape-based) – www.adept.co.za l MJVNet (Bloemfontein) – www.mjvn.co.za l South Africa Online (KwaZulu-Natal) – www.saol.com l Unihold Internetworking Services (formerly Hix Internet) – www.hix.co.za l ZAnet Internet Services – www.zanet.co.za If you already have a dial-up account but would prefer not to have your site hosted by […]

Angus Begg WEEKENDS FOR LOVERS by Bridget Hilton- Barber (Southern) ‘Stopovers are the one-night stands of travelling and an evening with Lord Fraser is one you won’t regret.” Far from an invitation to spend the night with an ageing, cross-dressing British Conservative Party politician who has fallen foul of the tabloids, this is Bridget Hilton-Barber’s […]

Khadija Magardie CROSSFIRE The lead article in the Mail & Guardian (January 28 to February 3) on “Africa’s new slaves” demonstrated a one-sided view of the civil war in Sudan. The three crucial flaws in the article were Cameron Duodu’s failure to probe the role of Christian Solidarity International (CSI) in the alleged “slave trade” […]