Herman Charles Bosman’s work is now all being reissued in a definitive edition. Craig MacKenzie describes his work on Mafeking Road Recently, as the editor of the journal English in Africa, I published there for the first time a remarkable exchange of letters between the post- war giants of South African letters – Herman Charles […]

A new television series will put figures from South Africa’s past on trial. Matthew Krouse reports Santarama Miniland, on the shores of Wemmer Pan dam, is an unexpected setting for a historical television drama of high integrity. A mammoth Gulliver hovers over tiny replicas of apartheid-era monuments, rekindling memories of brainwashing school outings. Shored up […]

Nicoli Nattrass It is economically illiterate and shockingly ill-informed to argue that we cannot afford to give pregnant women AZT. This is apparent from the most basic cost-benefit analysis. Taking the narrowest possible approach, the government simply has to ask whether the cost of administering AZT is more or less than the costs of treating […]

Anthony Holiday: OVER A BARREL Two terms in our current political lexicon are in urgent need of clarification. They are, of course, racialism and liberalism. The former refers to the gravest of matters, having to do with virtually everything the struggle for national liberation aimed to eliminate. However, it is now invariably an epithet, used […]

SARAH BULLEN, Johannesburg | Wednesday 6.00pm. THE Johannesburg Stock Exchange, pining of late for some positive domestic data, largely ignored an early Christmas present by the Reserve Bank in the form of a significant drop in the repo rate on Wednesday. The market closed almost flat, with the all share index a negligible four points […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Wednesday 7.00pm. ENGLISH flyhalf Mike Catt will not be asked to take any place kicks against the Springboks on Saturday, after he missed what would have been a match winning conversion against Australia last weekend, the English rugby camp said on Wednesday. The South African-born player, who replaced the injured Paul […]

SARAH BULLEN, Johannesburg | Tuesday 6.30pm. IT was an “utterly miserable” day on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange as it shook off the sleepy mode of late and headed into a free-fall that saw just under 5% shaved off the market value. Dealers were largely bracing for a downturn on Tuesday morning after Wall Street’s two […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Wednesday 7.00pm. ERNIE ELS, Tiger Woods and last year’s winner Nick Price will make their appearance as favourites at the Sun City Million Dollar Golf challenge which starts on Thursday. The three are part of the competition’s strongest-ever field, which includes six of the top seven players in the world. Woods, […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, London | Tuesday 9.20am. SPRINGBOK rugby coach Nick Mallett believes that if his team can set a world record of 18 consecutive Test wins with victory over England on Saturday, the landmark will stand for ever. The Springboks equalled New Zealand’s record of 17 triumphs, set over four years from 1967, when Mallett’s […]

SARAH BULLEN, Johannesburg | Friday 3.30pm. PANDEMONIUM broke out in ABSA Bank branches nationwide on Friday morning when thousands of the new-look bank’s customers were denied access to their finances. A well-placed source in ABSA head office told ZA*NOW that the bank had a complete system crash on Thursday night, leaving it unable to process […]