The Super 12 competition will provide a feast of top quality rugby and television viewing, but the lesser unions not invited to the meal are likely to starve RUGBY: Jon Swift THE new Super 12 competition has kicked off amid all the magic that a media circus tends to give an event which it has […]

CINEMA: Andrew Worsdale LIKE a film by Quentin Tarantino, Get Shorty begins in a diner. And, like a Tarantino movie, it has lots of characters who go off on wild monologues about the weather and, specifically, about Orson Welles’s Touch of Evil: main guy John Travolta is an obsessive movie fan. In Get Shorty, Tarantino […]

Bafana Khumalo ‘JESUS! These people sure did give us grief.” I am at Museum Africa in Newtown, viewing an exhibition on the 1956 Treason Trial. “These people” are whites. The man who is invading this particularly private moment of mine is one of the workers at the museum. “Probably on a tea break” — I […]

Ricardo Dunn and Nicole Fritz report on the state of crime today Almost 90 percent of the 132 people who were murdered in one weekend in February were poor, young, black men. Many headlines in South Africa give the impression that whites are the primary target of violent crime in this country. That is not […]

Have the ANC’s young lions turned into pussycats? Rehana Rossouw looks at the dilemmas facing the ANC Youth League THERE was a time when the African National Congress Youth League’s leaders roared and the security establishment’s grip automatically tightened on its rifle butts. This was the 1980s — when the ANCYL was one of the […]

Next week sees the beginning of the end of one of the most sordid chaptersin South Africa’s history. Ann Eveleth previews the Malan trial History will also be in the dock when the multiple murder trial of former defence minister Magnus Malan and 19 other security force officers gets under way next week. As it […]

Once a ‘bush college’ which defied apartheid, the University of the Western Cape has entered a new ‘struggle’ era. In the first of a series of articles focusing on universities, Philippa Garson reports on UWC’s attempts to meet the needs of its students A DISTURBING photograph of campus unheaval at the University of the Western […]

Jacquie Golding-Duffy talks to Jill Chisholm, the woman at the helm of SABC television, about the successes and failures of the new- look channels The new-look SABC has some distance to travel before its revamped schedules are up to scratch. While television head Jill Chisholm is by-and-large pleased with the relaunch, she concedes that schedule […]

The offices of the attorneys general around the country are virtually bare, reports Vuyo Mvoko OFFICES of the attorneys general in Gauteng and the Cape are heading for a crisis as senior prosecutors make a dash for entry to the Bar before it closes next week — undermining a whole spate of “third force” trials […]

As elections in Zambia and Zimbabwe draw nearer, independent newspapers are under pressure to stem their criticism of the two southern African governments, report Stefaans Brummer, Brian Latham and Andrew Meldrum THE leading independent newspapers in Zimbabwe and Zambia — which will both hold elections this year — are under pressure to silence their criticism […]