Chiara Carter Two separate Day of Reconciliation ceremonies will be held at Blood River where the government is hosting a R800 000 feast to mark the opening of a new memorial to Zulus who fell in the battle. On one side of the drift that divides the Afrikaans and Zulu memorials, Afrikaners will commemorate the […]

Friday night: Nashen Moodley Being a Durbanite recently arrived in Johannesburg somehow necessitates being constantly regaled with tales of malicious muggings and wanton violence. The locals seem to take to this (supposedly educative) task with much glee and I was told, quite matter-of- factly, that I would be attacked before the weekend was out. The […]

ANN EVELETH, Johannesburg | Friday 1.00pm. KWAZULU-Natal’s new director of public prosecutions, advocate Mokotedi Mpshe, took office on Tuesday ahead of a disciplinary hearing that could result in his being struck from the roll. Mpshe, who faces seven counts of professional misconduct in a Pretoria Bar Council disciplinary hearing which is set to resume on […]

Alex Sudheim There’s a point in the closing song of no more heavy that serves as a rough telescope through which to view Sunways’ music as a whole: Standstill is a spooky, minimal song for most of its six-minute duration which suddenly detonates with explosive force. It’s 4am inertia blues until it takes a hit […]

DAVID LEGGE, Johannesburg | Friday 1.15pm. GOAL-hungry Angolans Premiero de Agosto stand between Esperance of Tunisia and a place in the African football record books on Sunday. The clubs meet at the Citadela Stadium in the Atlantic Ocean city of Luanda with the North Africans defending a 3-1 lead from the first leg of the […]

Sundowns Andrew Muchineripi Soccer When Durban assistant referee Tiny Chandermoney raised his flag to signal a “goal” by Joel Masilela of Sundowns offside last weekend he could hardly have imagined just how big a storm he would stir. My mind went back in time to the late Liverpool manager Bill Shankly and his remark that […]

Dave Hill: FIRST PERSON When the British High Court heard earlier this week that former airline pilot James Williams’ “life had been destroyed” by the failure of an operation to give him back a foreskin, some might have suspected a degree of overstatement. Some – but not an awful lot of men, especially if they’ve […]

Tangeni Amupadhi Police in Johannesburg’s northern suburbs, including Alexandra, may have found the right ointment for their Achilles heel – carjacking. The men in blue have cut by half hijacking incidents in the past three months with an innovative crime- fighting initiative. The new plan circumvents the usual excuses about lack of manpower and resources. […]

Loose cannon: Robert Kirby Following a hot tip-off, last week I wangled permission to visit the maximum security dungeon of a well-known South African prison. I went there to interview a leading activist in jail factions, a man currently serving 243 years for a variety of hideous outrages, particularly against several octogenarian blind nuns in […]

Food: Ferial Haffajee There’s nothing like a steaming packet of slap (pronounced slup) chips to sate a raging appetite. Like cricket, slap chips are a great example of how the colonised took the ball – or in this case the spud – and ran with it. The potato chip, South African style, is barely comparable […]