Athletics fans can look forward to seeing one of the=20 greatest milers of all time when Noureddine Morceli=20 takes part in the opening of the new athletics=20 stadium in Johannesburg ATHLETICS: Julian Drew GROWING up in a country which was soccer crazy and had=20 little tradition in athletics it would have been hard=20 for Algeria’s […]

The Centre for Applied Legal Studies has produced a draft Bill on prostitution for the Department of Health, reports Rehana Rossouw South Africa’s growing sex industry offers consumers sex in books and magazines, on pornographic videos and over sex chat lines, but the law still prohibits them from buying the real thing. This anomaly should […]

SOCCER: Lungile Madywabe LIKE a child who has been burnt a number of times and=20 has vowed never to touch the fire again, Moroka=20 Swallows coach Walter Da Silva has learnt his lesson=20 well in dealing with National Soccer League teams.=20 In the space of six months he has lost two months’=20 salary because D’Alberton […]

The South African Citizenship Bill is an inadequate piece of legislation which requires attention, writes the Black Sash’s Sheena Duncan When Mr M, a South African citizen born in the Eastern Transvaal, was deported to Mozambique as an illegal alien for the second time, he approached the Black Sash Advice Office in Pretoria for assistance. […]

Rehana Rossouw South Africa will once again have sex police, like it did when police shone torches into bedrooms hunting people having sex across the colour line, if the draft Bill prepared by the Centre for Applied Legal Studies succeeds, a sex worker organisation warned this week. “We are going to need policemen in brothels, […]

Gaye Davis KEY recommendations of a major report, proposing sweeping changes to South Africa’s unequal schooling system, will be implemented next year, ushering in a new deal for education. Education Minister Professor Sibusiso Bengu was handed the report of the Review Committee on School Organisation, Governance and Funding on Thursday. His major challenge now will […]

An exhibition at Museum Africa reveals how South=20 African history as we know it was constructed through=20 text and images. RUTH SACK reports WAKE up, Thomas Baines, your time has come around=20 again. Or so a visit to the exhibition Frontiers — now=20 relocated from the Gertrude Posel Gallery to Museum=20 Africa in Newtown — […]

The Education Minister, slated for the slow pace of change in education, promises to set the ball rolling, reports Gaye Davis UNDER fire for not driving the pace of change in education hard or fast enough, Education Minister Professor Sibusiso Bengu says he is now poised to prove to his critics that he can deliver. […]

Good leaders will do anything to maintain morale, which is the only apparent explanation for President Nelson Mandela’s enthusiastic assessment of this week’s Southern African Development Community (SADC) summit. It must be conceded that they did approve the Sappigmou (the Southern African Power Pool Inter-Governmental Memorandum of Understanding, for those who do not keep up […]

Philippa Garson THE proposed closure of the central unit of Wits University’s Academic Development Programme — which offers support to educationally disadvantaged students — has met with dismay in some student and staff circles and raised questions about the direction being taken by the university on its academic development The decision to close down the […]