OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Sunday 3.00PM. South Africa were in a spot of bother on the third day of the series deciding fifth Test against England at Headingley on Saturday, as the English bats tightened their grip on the match. Allan Donald started the day well, dismissing Mike Atherton for a single run, but the […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Saturday 9.00PM. ONE hundred and eight people are now confirmed dead and some 4000 estimated injured in the bomb blast which devastated the United States Embassy and flattened a neighbouring building in Nairobi, Kenya, on Friday morning. Rescue workers say that 154 people have been reported missing, and expect the death […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Thursday 9.00PM. DEMOCRATIC Republic of Congo President Laurent Kabila has vowed to push the conflict in his country into Rwanda. In what amounts to a declaration of war, Kabila said on Thursday: “The war will be taken to where it came from [Rwanda]. We will defend ourselves. The Rwandans will not […]
Mail & Guardian reporter Conflict is once again engulfing Central Africa, killing the dream of regeneration and renaissance that came with the euphoria that accompanied the fall of the Zairean despot Mobutu Sese Seko more than a year ago. Then, it was believed that the series of interlocking wars, from Sudan in the north-east to […]
Paul Theroux often makes enemies of those he writes about. Now he has written about VSNaipaul, once his close friend. Tim Adams reports Paul Theroux has had more than one existence. “You have as many lives as you want,” he says. “But you have to take them. You have to be up to it. The […]
Wonder Hlongwa Estranged Inkatha Freedom Party leader Sipho Mzimela may rejoin the African National Congress, according to political colleagues who say he has been seeking advice about where his political future lies. Mzimela would not comment this week, except to confirm that he is still an IFP MP and a member of the party. He […]
As one of South Africa’s major outsider artists faces the loss of his unique Clarens homestead, Matthew Krouse and Alex Dodd journey to the source of a town’s painful conflict A Kafkaesque man in a black suit and tie flees across a surreal red landscape populated by creatures that could come from land or sea, […]
Bobby Peek The survival of the constitutional right to a healthy environment depends on the outcome of an unprecedented battle raging through almost every ministry and department of the government. The executive branch is debating the fate of the draft National Environmental Management Bill. Will the Bill vindicate the constitutional right to “an environment that […]
Justin Arenstein The Mpumalanga government has ordered a new investigation into the Motheo housing scandal after it expressed concern at the lack of financial controls in the national Department of Housing. Mpumalanga public accounts chair Hein Mentz said this week Parliament has been requested to address a perceived absence of checks and balances. Confirming that […]
Arnold Kemp in Paris Tour de France It was 9.30pm when the police came for Rodolfo Massi, entering his hotel by a back door. They searched his room and found corticoids in a case. They gave him time to shower and eat before taking him to the police station. Then they drove him north from […]