Gavin Foster The fight by Christian Education South Africa (Cesa), a fundamentalist Christian schooling group, to reverse the ban on beating schoolchildren suffered a setback on Monday when a Durban school worker was convicted of common assault. After convicting Valerie Ryan (48), magistrate SJ Mayeza discharged her with a caution, saying Ryan believed her actions […]

Donna Block SHARE WORLD Will he or won’t he, will he or won’t he? This has been the refrain from economists, analysts and investors this week as they awaited news on whether United States central banker extraordinaire, Alan Greenspan, was going to join his peers and raise short-term interest rates, or not. In the past […]

dollar Liesl Gerntholtz and Shireen Motara RIGHT TO REPLY During the past year there has been an intensified debate in the media about rape. Whether this is because rape has reached such proportions that we can no longer ignore it, or because the media has become more responsive to the issue, is not clear. Whatever […]

David Robbins The central premise in the size and shape debate is that the apartheid inheritance has caused distortions in tertiary education that now need correcting. The size of the sector – in student numbers – and the shape of it – the types of institutions it contains, and the proportion of universities to technikons […]

ANGLO-Dutch oil giant Shell has declared another force majeure in Nigeria, the seventh in recent months due to unrest in the Niger Delta region, a company official said Thursday. In recent months, amid ethnic clashes in which dozens of people have died, the company has suffered operational stoppages that have forced it to declare force […]

SOUTH Africa A captain Dale Benkenstein won the toss and elected to bat first against Sri Lanka A in their second four-day tour match at the Oval in Pietermaritzburg on Thursday. Teams: South Africa A: Mark Bruyns, Doug Watson, Dale Benkenstein (capt), Ashwell Prince, Arno Jacobs, Pieter Strydom, Justin Kemp, Wendell Bossenger, Shafiek Abrahams, Mornantau […]

POLICE, soldiers and traffic officials impounded more than 60 minibus taxis in Umtata in a five-day joint operation which ended on Wednesday, police said. Commander of the public order police unit, Senior Superintendent Wayne Hackart said the operation targeted all five taxi ranks in the Umtata town centre following clashes between different taxi groups.

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Cape Town | Thursday 5.00pm. BLACK fast bowler Walter Masimula lined up for a combined provincial team against the touring England side in Centurion Thursday as a new race row hit South African cricket. There was an outcry when only white players were picked to represent a combined Gauteng and Northerns XI against […]

THE Democratic Party on Wednesday won two by-election seats from the National Party in the Eastern Cape. The party won by-elections Middelburg and Ward 5 in Port Elizabeth The DP won 55,2% of the vote in Middelburg and 86,2% in Port Elizabeth’s Ward 5.

THE Democractic Party on Wednesday demanded a meeting with visiting Chinese parliament chairman Li Peng over his country’s human rights record. DP spokesman Colin Eglin said in a statement the party wants to talk to Li about Chinese-occupied Tibet, the country’s crackdown on religious dissidents, as well as progress towards multi-party democracy. Li, China’s second […]