Jackal The world’s most wanted man goes on trial next week after a career in terrorism lasting two decades. But, as Alex Duval Smith reports from Paris, what he might say in court has governments quaking The shot which for more than 20 years established him as the world’s most wanted man was fired in […]

FRIDAY, 11.00AM: BAFANA BAFANA coach Clive Barker is likely to field a squad that will attack from the first whistle against Germany. He said Bafana Bafana’s skill is the only way to upset Germany. “If we are not creative we will be beaten,” said Barker. “I believe we are stronger than them in a one-on-one […]

Madeleine Roux The oasis that is the Andries Stockenstrm guest house comes as more than a surprise. The gigantic house with its wide, yellowwood plank floors gives on to a spacious stoep and a garden crammed with fruit trees. A delicious smell of rich wine sauces, herbs and fruity pud wafts through the house. Beatrice […]

The Investors’ Conference into the Wild Coast Development unveiled R12-billion worth of new projects but critics argue only a chosen few will benefit, writes Craig Bishop `The Eastern Cape development train is in motion – don’t be left behind,” was the advice given by President Nelson Mandela to more than 500 delegates at last weekend’s […]

Ferial Haffajee Zwelakhe Sisulu is expected to quit the SABC for one of many tempting media executive positions being dangled before him. Senior SABC insiders believe Sisulu is likely to leave in the next “three to six months”. He has not taken the option of extending his contract as chief executive – which came up […]

Certain churches have agreed to restore land rights, but some wonder whether they will uphold this decision, Ann Eveleth reports In 1854 Sir George Cathcart told the Duke of Newcastle that portions of Eastern Cape mission land should be sub-divided for cultivation “as the native residents become gradually fit for it”. This statement, so evocative […]

FRIDAY, 1.30PM: The tax blitz by the South African Revenue Services last month revealed 26% of the businesses they visited were not registered to pay tax. The blitz, carried out on Tax Awareness day last month, targeted 42 114 businesses countrywide. Northern Province and Mpumalanga were found to be the worst offenders, with 53% of […]

Gwen Ansell : In your ear There’s probably now more jazz available on Gauteng radio than ever before. The community radio stations (Alex FM, Voice of Soweto) used to provide generous helpings – particularly of African jazz – until their managements went into advertiser-directed playlist mode and imported pop started squeezing it out. Some survive; […]

South African photography has reframed itself in the Nineties, writes Charl Blignaut Had you taken a stroll through Johannesburg’s art galleries five years ago you would most likely have come across precious few shows devoted to photography. And those that were would almost certainly have comprised the kind of slick, dangerous, Pulitzer Prize-winning news photographs […]

Chris McGreal The United Nations has accused the new government of the Democratic Republic of Congo (former Zaire) of showing little more respect for human rights and democratisation than Mobutu Sese Seko’s dictatorship. A report was released as UN investigators returned to Kinshasa to probe massacres of Rwandan Hutu refugees in the east of the […]