The government may not like it, but land invasion is a reality in South Africa, writes Louis Freedberg Isaac Williams, a land invasion officer for the Tygerberg municipality, has an uncanny ability to spot an unauthorised shack amid the hodge-podge squatter settlements in Khayelitsha and surrounding townships. To help him do the job, the city […]
You write a novel, the proof copies get passed around, panic sets in. Will they like it? Is it well enough written? Did I do justice to the characters? You wait to hear the cut and thrust of intellectual argument spearing down your literary faults. But no, what I got instead was quiet corner confessions […]
Cameron Duodu Letter from the North A former Conservative minister in Britain, Norman Tebbitt, once suggested that one yardstick by which the loyalty of British citizens could be measured was the support they gave to the English cricket team when England was playing against another country. Like all armchair experts, Tebbitt, I am certain, had […]
slowly Five years into the new radio and where is the gender equality, asks Charl Blignaut It’s the Monday morning after the elections and AMLive co-anchor Sally Burdett is having a small domestic breakdown. She still can’t quite believe she got through the biggest political broadcast of the year in one piece. “Uh … Yes,” […]
South Africa’s second democratic election saw the virtual extinction of the party that invented apartheid, writes Howard Barrell The African National Congress scored an emphatic victory at the polls this week, soaring beyond the two-thirds majority threshold in an election widely acclaimed by international observers. And in one of the most remarkable recoveries in modern […]
Chris Gordon All the indicators suggest external backing for the war in the Democratic Republic of the Congo is nearing an end, despite a flurry of hostilities in the last week. A short summit meeting of the presidents of Zimbabwe, Angola, Namibia and Congolese Foreign Minister Abeloulage Ndombasi discussed the unilateral ceasefire declaration by Rwanda […]
How can a 20-year-old bag a fortune for his first novel? Is it because it’s a stunner – or because he is? Dan Glaister investigates books and looks The four words most frequently used to describe Richard Mason are sensation, advance and Hugh Grant. Sensation because Mason is 20 years old and his debut novel, […]
cell Evidence wa ka Ngobeni The police’s Independent Complaints Directorate (ICD) is probing the mysterious death of a man who shot himself in a police cell this week after being arrested for a minor crime. Police claim that Francois Hulscher (30), from Cape Town, pumped a bullet from a 9mm pistol into his head just […]
THURSDAY, 12.30PM: SOUTH AFRICAN goalkeeper Andre Arendse has been ruled out of the squad for the World Cup after undergoing surgery to repair torn knee cartilage. Arendse, who plays for Fulham in England was injured during shooting practice on Monday after falling awkwardly when saving a shot, and was admitted to hospital on Tuesday for […]
WEDNESDAY, 12.30PM: FORMER South African cricket great Jackie McGlew died at his Craighall Park home on Tuesday after a long battle against leukemia. McGlew (69) captained South Africa in 14 test matches between 1947 and 1967. His score of 255 not-out against New Zealand is the second highest international score ever recorded. McGlew’s first-class career […]