Mukoni T Ratshitanga Two University of Venda buildings were burnt down this week, causing more than R500 000 worth of damage. The student affairs block was torched during the early hours of Monday morning, while the office of the South African Students’ Congress (Sasco) was destroyed the next day. A group of Azanian Students’ Congress […]

Andy Capostagno Rugby By 6.15 on Saturday morning (South African time) the Super 12 will be over. By the time the first weekend of June rolls around we could all be suffering from withdrawal symptoms. Certainly M-Net will find its weekends considerably more difficult to fill because, although the first international team of the winter […]

Ann Eveleth The development hopes of a poor rural community bordering the lucrative Sabi Sands game reserve have been delayed by bickering between conservationists vying for a slice of the community’s untapped treasure. The tiny community of Huntington in the fractious Bushbuckridge region in Mpumalanga plans to meet this weekend in an ongoing bid to […]

Dale T McKinley: CROSSFIRE What hole did Kuseni Dlamini (Crossfire, May 22 to 28) just climb out of to proclaim the death of the left? I’ll take a wild guess that it was the one he dug for himself in the depths of the corporate bowels of De Beers where, I have no doubt, the […]

Chris Roper On show in Cape Town In the catalogue for his exhibition, Stuart Barnes states that ”in a university, library books on the subject of ambiguous sex have suffered a history of violence: they have been mutilated. Pages have been torn and images of intersex genitalia excised from them. As a preventative measure they […]

negotiations Thembela Kepe, Lungisile Ntsebeza and Ben Cousins Despite the depth of the problems faced by the Wild Coast spatial development initiative (SDI), it has a great deal of positive potential – and it is not too late to correct the mistakes. However, the defensive response to our article (”Tempers flare on Wild Coast”, May […]

Lizeka Mda: CITY LIMITS It’s Saturday and the Avalon cemetery in Soweto is full of life. As usual, more than 100 funerals are going to take place before the afternoon is over. Dozens more will take place at Dobsonville and Roodepoort cemeteries. Saturday belongs to the dead in Soweto. The hearses – flamboyant stretch limousines, […]

Andy Duffy Special state investigations swallowed more than R40-million of taxpayers’ money in just 12 months, the government’s finance watchdog has found. The figures, buried in the report the auditor general released to Parliament earlier this week, point to a sudden acceleration, in the 12 months to March 1997, in the government’s drive to call […]

WEDNESDAY, 7.00PM: JOSEPH KONY and a group of his Lord’s Resistance Army forces have been surrounded by Ugandan troops at Polaro in the northern Gulu district of the country. Ugandan troops have reportedly killed more than killed 100 of Kony’s LRA rebels. The New Vision newspaper reported that Ugandan troops have freed 140 civilians abducted […]