Ann Eveleth THIS week’s local government elections will change next to nothing in the white right-wing stronghold of St Lucia, following a successful campaign by white business owners to keep most of their black employees off the voters’ roll. While black voters won a partial victory during a revision court hearing last week, the vast […]

A mature, new model Monica Seles made a return to Wimbledon, but it was cut short in the second round TENNIS: Mick Cleary IT MUST have been a relief to feel the pain. It was real, it hurt and it could be precisely located. After more than two years spent chasing shadows in her mind, […]

Alex Duval Smith in Bourges Musicians from Sting to Sir Yehudi Menuhin are backing a campaign by French culture minister Philippe Douste-Blazy to reduce value-added tax (Vat) on recorded music across the European Union. This town in central France hosts one of Europe’s biggest music festivals every spring and Douste- Blazy chose a conference here […]

Jacquie Golding-Duffy SABC staffers have to sign personally for their salary cheques after the corporation discovered that ex-employees were claiming salaries long after they had left the broadcaster. Head of the SABC’s internal investigations unit, Andy Sello, was tight-lipped relaying a message via a colleague that he is ”too busy” to comment, although it is […]

Minister Jay Naidoo has hit the first snag in attempting to rush the sale of SABC’s radio stations, reports Jacquie Golding-Duffy A BID by Posts, Telecommunications and Broadcasting Minister Jay Naidoo to speed up the sale of six SABC radio stations by amending the Independent Broadcasting Authority (IBA) Act is likely to fail. While Naidoo […]

The skirmish for Wits University’s top job continues, writes Philippa Garson THE students and academics who rallied behind Professor William Malegapuru Makgoba in his recent skirmish in Wits University’s corridors of power have turned against him and don’t want him to lead the institution. As speculation around contenders for the university’s top job grows, it […]

Vic Marks shares the middle with the well-rounded Devonian who is the natural successor to Dickie Bird as the best and most recognisable umpire in the world WHILE Dickie Bird was wallowing and weeping amid all the attention that enveloped him prior to his final Test, David Shepherd, his successor as the most recognisable umpire […]

The labour movement is battling with the dilemma of remaining loyal to the ANC or taking action to force economic change. Gaye Davis and Justin Pearce report WHILE Cosatu this week claimed the banks’ climb-down over interest rates as a victory, the finance institutions knocked the wind from the sails of an attempt by the […]