THE Truth Commission faces a legal battle over its selling the Final Report to publishers Jutas, despite the report’s own recommendation that it “be made available in the widest possible way”. Jutas are selling the report for R750, a price set by the commission itself. Steve Crawford runs the Truth Commission’s own website, and has […]

David Davies Golf Westwood and Woods, two young tigers whose names tended to be on the top of leaderboards around the world last year, are not quite fulfilling their billing this year. It has been a while since either Lee Westwood or Tiger Woods has growled at anybody. In fact, all the roaring lately has […]

Andy Colquhoun Rugby Saturday’s Super 12 collision between the Sharks and the Stormers at Newlands probably has more sub-plots than you’d find in a property developer’s fantasy for cluster homes on Table Mountain. At face value, the game is simply about the maximum of five log points to give the winner a leg-up towards the […]

Ferial Haffajee African National Congress deputy president Jacob Zuma will take the party’s manifesto to Free State’s Mangaung stadium tomorrow alongside Winnie Madikizela-Mandela. Bets are on which leader gets the loudest vivas. Two weeks ago, ANC president Thabo Mbeki had to halt a crucial election launch speech as Madikizela-Mandela arrived late at Orlando stadium. An […]

SIX of the nine remaining untrained Tuli young elephants were moved on Thursday to a North-West game park, SABC radio news reports. The transfer of the animals to Sandhurst Safaris follows signature of an agreement between their owner Riccardo Ghiazza and the National Council of Societies for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. The transfer […]

David Shapshak She started off her career as homage to a topless dancer, but days later she was on the FBI’s most wanted list. Less than a week after that she’s the world’s fastest replicating, most well-known virus. Her name is Melissa and she could well be the enemy of the future. Last week police […]

Gospel functions as a musical chicken soup for the soul, writes Gail Smith, who recently touched higher ground to the sounds of Joyous Celebration A new brand of funky gospel has encroached on dance floors so stealthily that non- believers find themselves steeped in the groove before they even realise that they’re dancing to a […]

CD of the week Greg Bowes Craig Armstrong arranged the strings on Massive Attack classics like Weather Storm and Sly, and almost everything about The Space Between Us, his orchestral debut for the Bristolian superstars’ label Melankolik, is breathtaking. Firstly, there’s the sleeve, which folds out to about half a metre in length and which […]

While the majority of the work on Mark Hipper’s Bad is beautiful, thought- provoking and intensely moving, a few pieces are of an uneven quality. This is not something a reviewer would normally highlight – there is so much here that is excellent, it would be stupid and churlish to risk discouraging anyone from a […]

SOUTH Africa’s first black cricket international Mkhaya Ntini will have to wait two weeks before hearing his fate on a charge of rape. As the trial closed on Thursday, it was decided that judgment will be delivered on April 23. State advocate Nicky Turner called on the court to convict Ntini, saying the complainant was […]