OWN CORRESPONDENT, Kigali | Monday 11.30pm. THE rebels fighting to oust Democratic Republic of Congo President Laurent Kabila have requested international humanitarian organisations to help shift about 20,000 Tutsi Banyamulenge from south-eastern Katanga province. Rebel-controlled radio Bukavu, monitored in Cyangugu across the border in Rwanda, said on Monday that the deputy governor of South Kivu, […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Monday 10.00am. GOLDEN Lions caretaker coach Johan Roux has wielded the axe by making eight changes to the team which last week was beaten 42-35 by Western Province, for Saturday’s Bankfin Currie Cup clash against Border in East London. Roux could not consider James Small, who is suffering from an ankle […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Libreville | Sunday 10.00am. THE Danish Minister for International Development, Paul Nielson, has warned African states with forces in the Democratic Republic of Congo that Copenhagen will cut off aid to them if a regional conflict ensues. “Should the countries involved get into a face-to-face confrontation my country will have no option but […]

President Nelson Mandela returned from his gruelling trip to the United States and Canada on Sunday.

As mutinous Lesotho troops take to the hills in preparation for a drawn-out struggle, we re-examine the report that caused all the trouble William Boot The Southern African Development Community’s mishandling of the Langa commission of inquiry and its inability to publicly admit that the Lesotho Congress for Democracy (LCD)had fraudulently stolen the May 23 […]

Charl Blignaut On stage in Johannesburg `Sometimes to tell a secret, you first have to teach a lesson,” reads a note in the programme for the South African premiere of Paula Vogel’s How I Learned to Drive, a mesmerising new production that took to the Market Theatre stage last week. It was the “to teach […]

“We protested here for almost seven weeks without a single window being broken and now look at our city – it has been destroyed.” – Lesotho opposition representative Mamelo Morrison, quoted in Business Day The quotation says it all. The Lesotho invasion would be laughable if it did not involve the loss of lives and […]

Douglas Rushkoff Online Bill Clinton’s impeachment, if and when it comes, will not herald a crisis of Constitution but a crisis of media. Brilliant exploitation of television may have won this president his office, but he must blame his downfall on an inability to resist the impact of another, newer medium: the Internet. Indeed, the […]

A school that fought apartheid is threatened with closure. John Pilger believes it should be saved Those of us banned from South Africa during the apartheid years have returning snapshots that swell the heart, offering a glimpse of what the future might be. One of mine is from a recent visit to Woodmead High School, […]

Andrew Worsdale Movie of the week `A chinese box doesn’t really exist,” said director Wayne Wang in an interview with Hollywood Online. “I tried to find one … I looked everywhere, but it doesn’t exist. It’s a metaphor for a box which, when you open it, leads to another box, then you open that box […]