US writer and composer Paul Bowles died early Thursday at a hospital in Tangiers of cardiac arrest, medical sources said. He was 88. Bowles, who would have turned 89 next month, was hospitalized in Tangiers, where he made his home in northern Morocco, after falling into a coma because of a cardio-respiratory crisis. Bowles, a […]

Connie Selebogo and Jubie Matlou WHO IS … JOE NDHLELA? Joe Ndhlela does not easily pick up a fight. However, the Premier Soccer League (PSL) CEO has lately found himself on a collision course with certain members of the powerful board of governors of the league. This showdown has a negative impact on South Africa’s […]

drain The Greater Johannesburg Metropolitan Council’s plan to rejuvenate the city is nothing more than a localised version of Gear in which privatisation is central, writes Ebrahim Harvey The most tragic thing about the Greater Johannesburg Metropolitan Council’s (GJMC) iGoli 2002 plan is that it is not only the council’s 29 000 employees who will […]

REFEREE Falla Ndoye of Senegal and assistant referee Ali Tomusange of Uganda will represent Africa at the first world club championships from January 5-14 in Brazil, the organisers said on Wednesday. Corinthians and Vasco da Gama of Brazil, Manchester United of England, Real Madrid of Spain, Al-Nasr of Saudi Arabia, Nexaca of Mexico, South Melbourne […]

things to come Are universities in turmoil or in ferment? Are they collapsing, or merely in flux? David Robbins looks at the tertiary sector The troubles afflicting South African universities and technikons are many, and dramatic: campus protests, lecture boycotts, revelations of institutional collapse, widespread financial investigations, crippling amounts outstanding from unpaid student fees, rumours […]

Among other things, the new Firearms Control Bill will deny people guilty of crimes of violence the right to own a firearm. Barry Streek reports Gun-free zones, such as bars and casinos, are to be created in terms of the new Firearms Control Bill, and ordinary people will not be allowed to carry firearms there. […]

This newspaper has long exercised severe scepticism around the promises and threats of politicians and law enforcement officers to “get tough on crime”, to “wage war on crime” or, in Minister of Safety and Security Steve Tshwete’s memorable phrase, to “kick the criminals in the stomach”. Our demand, and we believe the demand of the […]

THE son of paedophile Gert van Rooyen, who escaped from a Pretoria police station early on Thursday, has been recaptured. Gerhard van Rooyen, 31, was re-arrested at 6.30pm while walking along the Old Warmbaths Road near Zambezi Drive in Pretoria North. Early on Thursday morning he apparently asked to make a phone call, then slipped […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Cape Town | Friday 6.30pm. ENGLAND’s hopes of making further inroads into the Combined Northerns/Gauteng batting order was halted by bad light at Centurion Park on Friday. Replying to England’s 303, after most of the morning session had been washed out by rain, the Combined XI reached 85 for three when the umpires […]

E-COMMERCE, or buying and selling things over the Internet, has got a boost from Absa Bank, Boland PKS, First National Bank and Nedcor, in alliance with MasterCard and Visa, all of whom have elected to support the Secure Electronic Transaction standard (Set). The standard will allow consumers to make purchases by credit card over the […]