Andy Capostagno Rugby Those who take comfort in the constricting cloak of provincialism have a fun weekend ahead. The Cats play the Stormers at Newlands with, if you believe the hype, the visitors determined to rain on the Super 12 log leaders’ parade and the home side looking forward to sending the Vaalies back home […]

FINANCIAL services group Nedcor Investment Bank announced in Cape Town on Friday it will invest over R650000 into the South African wine industry over the next three years. This builds on NIB’s existing investment of R265000 over the past three years. The company has agreed to cover the marketing costs of the Cape Independent Winemakers […]

Evidence wa ka Ngobeni Senior African National Congress leaders recently met leaders of the ANC-aligned South African Student Congress (Sasco) in a bid to end student opposition to the Rand Afrikaans University’s (RAU) offer of an honorary doctorate to Deputy President Thabo Mbeki. Sasco is insisting that Mbeki reject the honorary degree in law on […]

A TEAM of French firefighters headed to Cote d’Ivoire’s economic capital on Friday to help control a gigantic blaze that threatening oil stocks near west Africa’s biggest refinery. A vast column of black smoke billowed over Abidjan as flames 12m continued to rage from GESTOCI, the oil stocks plant immediately next to the refinery. Late […]

On Monday the government’s security of tenure legislation will be put to the test in Ceres, the fruit-growing valley between the mountains known for its soft fruit and juice industries in the Western Cape. It’s the first time in the area that farm workers are fighting their eviction. Martha Goliath is sitting in a tiny […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Cape Town | Thursday 4.00pm. GIVEN their respective places on the Super 12 log, Saturday’s match between the Stormers and the Cats shouldn’t be a big deal. Additionally, the Stormers are virtually unbeatable at home and the match is at Newlands. And yet the game has attracted massive attention. Cats coach Andre Markgraaff […]

Merle Colborne With “two front covers, several middles and no back” in a format that’s “vertical, horizontal and partly upside down” you can read Mamba, the vibrant new Durban-based culturezine, standing on your head. Thirty local writers, artists, photographers, designers and musicians (a few of whom slipped over the margins into the mainstream a good […]

John Matshikiza To those of us stuck in the conservative groove of seeing politics in terms of the titanic struggle between the African National Congress and the National Party, the African Christian Democratic Party was one of those bizarre phenomena that crowded the ballot paper at the first representative election in 1994. Its success in […]

At four he became leader of his people. Twenty years later he fled the Chinese occupation of his country, Tibet. After 40 years in exile, the West sees him as the embodiment of the Buddhist values of compassion and tolerance. But is his goodness a weakness? Ed Douglas reports In a luxuriant garden shaded by […]

The David Gleason Column Gold, the precious metal most commonly associated with South Africa, is in the way of taking yet a further beating after the United Kingdom’s Chancellor, Gordon Brown, announced last week that Britain is to sell off about 415 tons over the next three years. An extraordinary aspect of the British announcement […]