Rehana Rossouw NEIGHBOURS of Cape Town gangster killer Harry Joshua believe his crime was not that heinous: he was only cleaning up a little. “He was just ridding the area of some of the vermin,” was one of the descriptions of Joshua’s shooting spree last May which left five young men dead and two wounded, […]

ATHLETICS: Jon Swift THERE are times in South African sport when you wonder whether the word “development” does not have the Orwellian connotation of separate but equal. The All African Invitational athletic meeting to open the magnificently appointed new Johannesburg Stad-ium last weekend was just such an occasion. A surprisingly sparse crowd had come on […]

The sound of poetry rocked gently against the walls of Pretoria Central Prison last weekend. Hugh Lewin, a political inmate of Central in the 60s, reports on a day with LKJ and eight South African poets Ask any prison graduate: there’s one fear greater than the fear of going to prison. It’s the fear of […]

Citytv’s Nick Taylor wants to see communities involved in regional stations, writes Neil Beerbaum Nick Taylor has a show in his mind which illustrates what regional television can be about: “There is a man in Guguletu who makes washing powder in his garage over the weekends. He believes it washes faster and whiter than other […]

Gaye Davis WHEN Idasa launched its national survey of parliamentarians, the reaction was immediate — and largely allergic. But, while some MPs and senators fumed and balked, others quietly set about filling in replies to the 161 questions. Those coming up trumps in the transparency stakes so far include such notables as Minister of Posts […]

A lack of regulation has allowed some training colleges to charge high fees for worthless qualifications, writes Jack Rampou LOOPHOLES in the training industry allow private colleges to charge high fees for courses that are not recognised as qualifications by most employers or the National Training Board. In the past, there were tax incentives for […]

Justin Pearce MARIA SEKATANE proudly points out the photograph on the wall of her tiny sitting-room in Meadowlands, Soweto. In the picture, her son Montsheng stands next to Chris Hani. Both are in MK camouflage gear, and the tropical vegetation in the background tells that the photo dates to the years of exile. These days, […]

Parliamentary questioning of Kwazulu-Natal Attorney- General Tim McNally started off looking like a wild west duel, but ended in a stand-off, writes David It was 12 midday exactly — “high noon” in gunfighter parlance — when Tim McNally took his seat in Room 153 at the Union Buildings on Wednesday. A slight, grey- haired figure […]

How do we see ourselves in our fledgling democracy? NEVILLE DUBOW looks at the SA National Gallery’s exhibition of People’s Portraits PEOPLE’S Portraits — a photographic project sponsored by the South African National Gallery and the Mail & Guardian — carried the following guidelines: “Entrants have complete freedom to express the spirit of humanity in […]

The teams who have had the most Currie Cup success this season have been playing Buurman van Zyl’s way with forward domination to the fore RUGBY: Jon Swift IT is perhaps a trite observation, but this has been a long, hard rugby season. No team typifies this more fully than Transvaal. Champions of virtually all […]