The special horror of the terrorists’ bomb is only heightened when it shatters a period of apparent peace. The Israeli people are reeling from the same sense of double shock which hit Britain two weeks ago. Not only was the bomb on Jaffa Road devastating in its destruction of human life, but it came after […]

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 […]

The deadlock is broken: workers and employers will have equal representation on the pension fund board, reports Lynda Loxton The parliamentary joint standing committee on finance broke the deadlock on the question of worker representation on pension fund boards on Tuesday. It was finalising the Pension Funds Amendment Bill aimed at, among other things, implementing […]

1 Mr Phakhiti, 35-year-old black male, murdered in Thembisa, Gauteng 2Nimrod Mhlongo, 23-year-old black male, shot in Gauteng 3 Unidentified 25-year-old black male, shot in Pretoria, Gauteng 4Brian Mego, 25-year-old black male, murdered in Lenasia, Gauteng 5Petrus Jama Khumalo, 43-year-old black male, shot in Katlehong, Gauteng 6Unidentified, race unknown, 18-year-old stabbed in Boksburg, Gauteng 7Thabo […]

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 […]

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 […]