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 […]

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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” […]

Paul Kirk A week after Zulu chiefs met President Thabo Mbeki to ask for the proposed new changes in municipal demarcations to be put on hold, the King of the Pondos, Justice Mpondombini Sigcau, has called for “no changes” in the municipal demarcations in his area. Pondoland has seen exceptionally bloody faction fighting, and the […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Lagos | Thursday 9.00pm. NIGERIA confirmed their status as favourites to win the African Nations Cup with an impressive 2-0 triumph over Morocco on Thursday that sealed first place in Group D. Defeat proved particularly costly for Morocco as they were pipped for the second place in the knockout stages by Tunisia, who […]

One moment the African National Congress says it wants open and transparent government; the next it seems intent on preventing it. No sooner has the ruling party ushered constitutional Bills through Parliament designed to improve public access to information on government, than the ANC comes up with proposals for parliamentary question time whose effect would […]

Robert Kirby LOOSE CANNON For the next few hundred words I wish to dilate on the subject of Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma’s new lavatory in the Union Buildings. It’s not that I have anything against Dlamini-Zuma having her own lavatory, it’s just the seemingly excessive cost of the whole exercise that begs a question or two. According […]