OWN CORRESPONDENT, Windhoek | Thursday 8.00pm. A BILL that will allow Namibian President Sam Nujoma to stand for a third term was approved by the second house of parliament on Thursday, and now only needs Nujoma’s own signature to become law. The controversial Namibian Constitution First Amendment Bill, passed in the National Council by 19 […]

She writes textbooks for a living and composes poems about Sea Point. Karen Press speaks to Jane Rosenthal Poet Karen Press, who currently writes science and maths textbooks for a living, has lived in Sea Point for much of her life. Characteristically, she has had some dialogue with herself on what most folk would just […]

Marianne Merton and Chiara Carter Cape police bungled a raid on the home of alleged People against Gangsterism and Drugs (Pagad) member Ebrahim Jeneker, who was arrested this week in connection with a charge of hijacking. Police raided Jeneker’s home on Monday and seized clothes and belongings for forensic testing in connection with violence on […]

Douglas Rushkoff online So, am I, like the last kid on the block to get my Hotline server up and running? It sure seems so. Not since I logged on to the Internet for the first time, back in 1988, and encountered the already-populated chat rooms, bulletin boards, and hacker groups, have I been so […]

They belong to women, but everywhere they are annexed – as a symbol of strength, as a symbol of weakness, by the artist, by the pornographer, by the advertiser, for sex, for nourishment. What is the significance of breasts? Libby Brooks reclaims the personal and the tactile from the political and the commercial At the […]

site David Larsen Ndumo game reserve, on the border with Mozambique in northern KwaZulu-Natal, is the centre of a land-claim dispute that could set a precedent for numerous community land claims in game parks throughout the country. The KwaZulu-Natal MEC for Traditional and Environmental Affairs, Nyanga Ngubane, has agreed to temporarily allocate 10ha of land […]

Shaun de Waal : First Person In last week’s First Person, the noted British feminist Joan Smith told us why women don’t cruise. But her answer seemed to have two parts: one explicit, one implicit. Danger, she said, is the main reason women don’t haunt parks and public toilets in search of sex. Underlying that, […]

Toby Walne Spending it Barbie is facing middle age. Next year she will celebrate her 40th birthday. Early Barbie fans who resisted the temptation to pull off her arms or legs can count themselves lucky: vintage first-edition Barbies sell for about R60 000. Action Man is hot on Barbie’s heels. Rejuvenated with extra muscles and […]

The year 2000 may bring chaos to nuclear bases, writes John Eason As the fireworks burst in the sky, heralding the year 2000, could we see larger rockets taking to the air, bearing payloads of nuclear death and destruction? It sounds far-fetched. Surely the worst the millennium bug could do is close down cash machines […]

One of the more surreal themes to emerge from Zimbabwe in recent weeks was that of Democratic Republic of Congo President Laurent Kabila being escorted into Harare by a 28-vehicle convoy while helicopter gunships hovered overhead. His motorcade, sirens wailing, carefully avoided the townships where tear gas hung in the rubble-strewn streets after police and […]