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 […]

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 […]

Fiona Macleod:A Second Look During the debate in the past fortnight about whether the resumption of the ivory trade has led to an increase in poaching of elephants, both the Minister of Environmental Affairs and Tourism, Pallo Jordan, and his deputy, Peter Mokaba, have come out in favour of “sustainable utilisation” of natural resources as […]

Termination of pregnancy, or abortion, is available on request from most clinics. But many of them can’t cope with the numbers. Lizeka Mda spent a day at the Soweto clinic It is not quite 8am but the clinic is buzzing. Women have been streaming in from the moment the gates opened at 7.30am. Many walk […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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; […]

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 […]

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 […]