Ferial Haffajee At least eight women will have been raped by the time you read to the end of this page. Three years into the new democracy and a woman is still raped every 36 seconds in South Africa, perhaps even more frequently if the growing numbers of reported rapes indicate an increase in the […]

With the launch of a guild for South African animators, Tube’s cutesies on TV and Disney’s Hercules opening next week, we take a look at the world of animation Andrew Worsdale The South African Guild of Animators was officially launched a fortnight ago at this year’s Film and TV Market in Cape Town. Chairman Ron […]

Sechaba ka’Nkosi Fears are mounting that a network of senior police officers in the KwaZulu-Natal’s Midlands wants to sabotage the trial of alleged warlord Sifiso Nkabinde as they could also face charges if implicated when the trial begins in February next year. The network is suspected to be involved in killings, intimidation of witnesses and […]

Angella Johnson It was a sunny spring day in September when Andr Swart and his wife Lenie drove through the manicured grounds of their sprawling commercial farm. They had been to church, a high point of the weekly social calendar for their tight-knit Afrikaner farming community. As their car pulled into the garage four men […]

Design of the week : Maria McCloy We’re so used to the cheap, garish, characterless and boring mass-produced album covers of most South African artists (a perfect example is the new Brenda Fassie cover), it’s refreshing to see the cover art created by graphic designer Nicholas Hauser and Coil Productions photographer Lianne Cox. Most of […]

Barney Spender : Rugby As in all sports and, indeed , in life itself, a hearty welcome is often accompanied by a fond farewell. So it is on Saturday when the Springboks will attempt, for the second successive year, to win a Test series in France by a 2-0 margin. Something which will prove a […]

A Second Look : Timothy Trengove-Jones aIt is a truism that the love which once dared not speak its name is now unstoppably voluble. On stage, on screen, in the media, yes, even on the streets, homosexuals are articulating their presence with increasing confidence. And, on November 25 1997, almost 100 years after the (in)famous […]

Lesley Cowling Mojalefa Murphy, one of the country’s rare black nuclear physicists who has been suspended by the Atomic Energy Corporation, hit back in the Pretoria High Court this week with a bitter attack on the AEC’s chief executive, Waldo Stumpf. Murphy, who was meant to be the new face of the AEC, has been […]

A boy found in the wild 10 years ago and placed in care still behaves like a monkey, writes Wonder Hlongwa It has been a decade since a five-year-old boy suspected of living with monkeys was discovered in Sundumbili in KwaZulu-Natal. He has been in professional care ever since, but still behaves more like a […]

Iden Wetherell The collapse of the Zimbabwe dollar and pressure from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) have forced President Robert Mugabe’s government to disclose how it intends to fund the substantial payouts it has promised veterans of the country’s liberation war. But it is unlikely that this week’s announcement of far-reaching budgetary revisions and drastic […]