Iden Wetherell An unprecedented rebellion by usually docile members of Zimbabwe’s ruling Zanu-PF party and anti-government riots in the capital Harare this week have exposed gaping fissures in the previously monolithic edifice of President Robert Mugabe’s 17-year-old regime. Delegates to a Zanu-PF conference in the eastern city of Mutare refused point blank last Friday to […]

Social worker Tshengesiwe Mthembu was walking to work last Saturday morning when she found herself caught up in a modern-day pass raid. Yeoville police were cruising the street in search of “illegal immigrants”. They were stopping individuals – all black – asking them to speak their home language, questioning them on key words and making […]

worst enemy The Truth and Reconciliation Commission is hesitating over a decision whether to subpoena members of the judiciary to appear before it following their failure to do so voluntarily. The hesitation apparently results from indications by the Bench that such a move would represent a constitutional challenge to the independence of the judiciary and […]

Andrew Spencer : Golf So, Nick Price has another million dollars. He earned it, as he said after his one-shot win at Sun City last weekend, “the hard way”. Price may not have the fanatical support Ernie Els enjoys among the South African public but, despite the Zimbabwean colours he flies, his roots are sunk […]

A few years ago the highlight in Dome newspaper was promoting Natal University’s annual rag.No more. The paper’s growing reputation for investigative, controversial journalism was rewarded this week when it was adjudged the Best Student Newspaper of 1997 in the Mail & Guardian/Student Life student media awards. The force behind the paper’s new vibrancy is […]

There are still questions over the treatment of illegal immigrants at Lindela camp, writes Andy Duffy Guards at the private deportation camp Lindela had to use batons and dogs to quell a near-riot last week after hundreds of inmates massed to storm the gate. Management at Lindela, which is linked to high-profile African National Congress […]

Peta Thornycroft The former co-chair of the Independent Broadcasting Authority (IBA), accused of misusing her company credit card, has recently landed a plum government job. Dr Sebilitso Mokone-Matebane has been offered a consultancy with Sentech, the national signal distributor owned by the Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications. This means all three disgraced IBA councillors have […]

Dan Glaister For the second consecutive year, Britain’s 20 000 Turner Prize has been awarded to a video artist. The prize was presented to Gillian Wearing by the British Culture Secretary Chris Smith at the Tate Gallery in London. Her victory over the three other women on the prize’s first all-woman shortlist confirms the dominance […]

FRIDAY, 12.00NOON: THE South African cricket team scored one for the record books on Thursday when they beat New Zealand by a single run at the Bellerive oval in Hobart, Tasmania. The South Africans won the toss and elected to bat first in the 50-over match. Tight bowling and good fielding by the Kiwis held […]