Allan Boesak has been convicted by a myopic judiciary, argues Farid Esack, but what about its own tainted history? If Allan Boesak ends up in jail, he will be the only significant anti-apartheid political figure of the Eighties behind bars. It’s utterly bewildering. He will, after all, not be behind bars for his political activities. […]

`The need to access computers has become one of the primary civil rights issues facing people with disabilities,” says Jim Fruchterman of Arkenstone, a non-profit body providing computer systems for the blind, . He is one of around 3 500 people with disabilities and their carers gathering with computer programmers, designers and technologists in Los […]

John Higgins It’s embarrassing to introduce an academic superstar to a small audience in a large hall. “There may be just my theory of literature class here,” I murmured, as we hurried towards the lecture, adding silently, “all 10 of them!” Could the unfashionable topic, “Marxism at the Millennium”, draw in the crowds on this […]

President Nelson Mandela has been named joint winner of a Nigerian honour recognising exemplary leadership in Africa.

Shell has launched an ad campaign proclaiming that it’s not just after profits. Roger Cowe looks at a new trend among multinationals Shell launched a series of advertisements in Britain this week as part of a $25-million campaign the oil company is calling ”stakeholder consultation”. Stakeholders are all those affected in one way or another […]

Performance art is internal and intrusive – it is like surgery without anaesthetic. Static visual art is like an anaesthetic without surgery … – Steven Cohen Peet Pienaar, he of the oke-ish good looks and rugby-inspired aesthetics, doesn’t really want to talk to me. He’s had enough of interviews, he wants to stop explaining what […]

ONE of the last bastions of Johannesburg’s business elite, the Rand Club, is considering joining the exodus of business to the suburbs. The club has been in Loveday Street in central Johannesburg since its founding in 1887. Since then it has been the favoured watering hole of the city’s captains of industry. However, in a […]

European negotiators to give President Nelson Mandela a farewell present before he steps down.

Howard Barrell Musical chairs continued in Parliament this week when two more opposition politicians – Patrick McKenzie of the New National Party and Bukelwa Mbulawa of the Democratic Party – joined the African National Congress. Mbulawa’s defection is a blow to the DP. But McKenzie’s change of loyalties came as no surprise. The Mail & […]

John Matshikiza:WITH THE LID OFF ‘To the untrained eye,” says Achmat, ”these dogs might look a bit lacksy-daisy.” ”A bit what?” I say. ”Yes, they might look a bit lacksy-daisy now, in broad daylight, to you, because you don’t know them,” Achmat says, ”but at night their ears go back flat on their heads, and […]