Theatre: Shaun de Waal Insofar as Beautiful Thing, at Cape Town’s Baxter Studio, resolves itself without undue trauma to the audience, it is a ”feel-good” production. We come to care about these working-class East-Enders. (Their accents, though, make one wonder whether this shouldn’t have been called Beautiful Fing.) Jonathan Harvey’s play tells the story of […]

Eddie Koch The Cabinet this week appointed new members to the National Parks Board (NPB) in a move that will speed up conservation reforms designed to make the country’s game reserves more relevant to the needs of the rural The appointment of the new national conservation body, made at Cabinet’s meeting on Wednesday, is also […]

THE Conference of Editors was started some two decades ago as a bold attempt to bridge the gap between English and Afrikaans editors of mainstream newspapers. Its structures reflected that narrow goal, appropriate only to the strange politics of the time: in order to avoid conflict between these two disparate groups, it was a body […]

Communities are taking justice into their own hands as attorneys-general admit they cannot prosecute major cases. David Beresford and Rehana Rossouw report SOUTH AFRICANS expect instant justice — if a spate of burnings, stonings, shootings, whippings and vicious assaults perpetrated by communities against alleged criminals is anything to go by. And while vigilantes and communities […]

Justin Pearce Two scions of CCV-TV’s marketing department and one South African Broadcasting Corporation old-guarder are to head the SABC’s revised three-channel television line-up, which will take effect in February next year. Molefe Mokgatle will head Channel 1, Taninga Msimango will become acting head of Channel 2, and Louis Raubenheimer is to head Channel 3. […]

Marion Edmunds CONSULTANTS Eugene Nyati and Ntsoaki Mohapi have made the Mpumalanga government look stupid — not only by doing its work faster and better, but also by showing up the provincial government’s carelessness with taxpayers’ money. This week, as the Nyati scandal in Mpumalanga came to a head, the auditor-general’s office decided to release […]

Mining company JCI is moving into Africa in a big way, reports Karen Harverson Unbundled mining company JCI Limited is vigorously expanding throughout Africa in the search for mineral Business development general manager Peter McKenna says most of JCI’s projects in Africa are still in the early development stages, but if successful, he expects gold […]

After a year away from the game, Jeff Butler has returned to coach Kaizer Chiefs SOCCER: Lungile Madywabe WITH eight weeks to go before the end of the season, the deadline for the registration of players in NSL teams has come and gone. Kaizer Chiefs were reported to be interested in the services of Ernest […]

DNA forensics is used widely in South Africa, but a recent supreme court case in Cape Town exposed serious flaws in its application, reports Rehana Rossouw There are probably millions of people throughout the world who by now have heard of “the bloody glove” and its alleged proof of American sports superstar OJ Simpson’s involvement […]