Howard Barrell: OVER A BARREL If we do begin to make dramatic inroads into unemployment in South Africa in the near future, we can probably be sure of one thing: the presidential Jobs Summit this week will have had very little to do with it. For, as one postponement of the get- together followed another […]

The Jobs Summit must ensure the creation of jobs in a fast-changing, multi-layered economy. A trip down a Johannesburg city street shows just how diverse an economy it is, writes Ferial Haffajee The disappearing economy Fourty-four Main Street is the headquarters of the Anglo American Corporation, where an imposing bronze door greets visitors. Yuppies in […]

Blue Bulls vs Western Province Andy Capostagno Rugby On Tuesday the fixtures for the 1999 Super 12 competition were released. Coincidence, or is the Sanzar (South Africa, New Zealand, Australia Rugby) committee concerned that the Currie Cup is stealing its thunder? For all the advances made since South Africa was readmitted to international competition in […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Friday 10.00am. FORMER All Black coach Laurie Mains, infamous in South Africa for his claims that the New Zealand All Blacks were poisoned by a waitress ahead of their 15-13 loss to the Springboks in the 1995 World Cup final, on Thursday signed a three-year contract to coach the Golden Lions […]

ROB DAVIES, Johannesburg | Friday 9.35am. THE Giants of South African soccer, Orlando Pirates and Kaizer Chiefs, will clash in the first-leg semifinals of the multimillion-rand Rothmans Cup on Saturday, and fans can be sure that the battle will be one of epic proportions. What is certain is that the match will be a tight […]

Cameron Duodu: LETTER FROM THE NORTH She never allowed the leaders of the Soviet Union to forget what horrible creatures they were. And she plotted, with her “virtual boyfriend”, Ronald Reagan, to bring down the Soviets’ “evil empire”. To listen to her waxing lyrical about the “values of the free world” you would have thought […]

Howard Barrell The Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) was ready to declare FW de Klerk “an accessory to gross human rights violations” before the former president brought an urgent court action to stop this conclusion being carried in the TRC’s final report, released in Pretoria on Thursday. The commission had provisionally concluded that De Klerk’s […]

In the week the TRC released its final report, Penuell Maduna was trying to hide the name of an African politician who enjoyed the National Party’s largesse, writes Mungo Soggot The bizarre saga of how the apartheid government bankrolled the election of a West African president by inflating the South African taxpayers’ crude oil bill […]

The TRC has found that torture and executions occurred in ANC camps in exile. Some of those targeted were killed as a result of bad leadership, jealousies and paranoia, writes Charlene Smith Chris Hani was once sentenced to death by Umkhonto weSizwe’s (MK) high command in Tanzania for putting forward the grievances of MK cadres. […]

Sharon Hammond The Kruger National Park will present its much-awaited proposal for a new policy on managing its elephant population on Saturday. This follows decades of highly emotional criticism for culling the animals in an effort to keep the population in the park at a fixed number of between 7 000 and 7 500. “We […]