Rehana Rossouw PW BOTHA could face two years behind bars if he remains opposed to testifying before the Truth and Reconciliation Commission after it begins its work next year. His defiant refusal this week to “repent” before the commission could see him falling foul of the law. The Promotion of National Unity and Reconciliation Act […]

The government has retreated behind a wall of silence to wrestle with the Nigerian issue, writes Gaye Davis FEARS of ruffling the feathers of African leaders and of being seen as acting as an agent of western governments abrogating their own moral responsibility dominated top-level government talks on the Nigerian situation this week. Led by […]

David Beresford THE most powerful indictment of the death penalty ever produced in South Africa is arguably Alan Paton’s Cry the Beloved Country. But the man who plays the central role in the latest screen version of the novel has made a passionate appeal to Nelson Mandela: Hang them high! Eric “Waku” Miyeni, the comedian, […]

The National Gallery’s exhibition of images of District Six is a valuable reconstruction of our collective memory, writes NEVILLE DUBOW Question: Name the place in Cape Town that was destroyed and where the residents were forcibly emoved to the Cape Town townships? Answer: District Six Question: Name the building that was erected through the heart […]

Leon Perlman COMPUTICKET, the national computerised entertainment and leisure reservation service, has teamed up with service provider Internet Africa to provide an Internet booking service to cinema patrons on a 24-hour booking basis. Developed by Internet Africa’s World Wide Web service division, the service is an extension of Computicket’s telephone reservation system. According to Mike […]

Bronwen Roberts THE South African Association of Municipal Employees (Saame) has sought an urgent meeting with Eastern Cape Local Government MEC Max Mamase following his announcement that several hundred white municipal workers are to be replaced by blacks. Chairman of the Eastern Cape Saame branch Johan Crafford said this week the union is concerned the […]

THE National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) on Wednesday said it would appeal against prison sentences imposed on three miners’ wives for trespassing at a De Beers diamond company in The women are serving their sentences at a prison in the Northern Cape town of Springbok. Two children, aged eight months and four years, were staying […]

THEATRE: David Le Page MARABI is a musical story of the Doornfontein slumyards of early Johannesburg, and of the musical culture that sprang up from that misery. If anything, this Junction Avenue Theatre Company production at the Market Theatre celebrates marabi culture more than the music The play focuses on the lives of the Mabongo […]

Dedicated to providing the people of Alexandra with hard-hitting local news, ALX.FM is proving that interactive radio is what people want. Itumeleng oa Mahabane reports RAP star and erstwhile self-proclaimed hip-hop thugster Tupac Shakur hangs placidly from a wall in the studio booth at ALX.FM. The poster carries the title of his latest album, Me […]

Change is not new at Eskom, although it faces some novel challenges. Reg Rumney reports PEERING down into the garden of the cavernous three-storey atrium at the centre of the Megawatt Park HQ, with its hanging baskets of greenery, one is struck by the scale of what has been dubbed Eskom’s hanging gardens of Babylon. […]