Amid all the sharp and confusing exchanges between the African National Congress and the Inkatha Freedom Party, a strategy is emerging of the type that President Nelson Mandela is so astute at putting in On the one side, the police and various special investigators are closing in on IFP leaders and allies implicated in violence. […]

Ann Eveleth The Wildlife Society of Southern Africa has called for the creation of an environmental court to hear cases involving environmental disputes. Wildlife Society representative Jeremy Ridl, who made the submission to the first public hearing of the KwaZulu/Natal Constitutional Committee in Durban this week, said the multi-faceted nature of environmental disputes requires people […]

Justin Pearce South African aromatherapists have approached the Constitutional Assembly to try to gain official recognition for their profession. A submission to the Constitutional Assembly made by Moyra Metcalfe, chairperson of the Association of Aromatherapists Southern Africa argues “that each individual has a right to choose and maintain natural, holistic health. “He should be given […]

Rehana Rossouw People campaigning for the new South African Constitution to promote a Christian state are political opportunists trying to reinstate minority baasskap, said African National Congress MP Carl Niehaus this week . Niehaus — who has a theology degree — was responding to the recent march on Parliament by several thousand conservative Christains demanding […]

Iron-age sites reveal some astonishing artefacts — and shatter some dearly held beliefs, reports Bruce Around the time William the Conqueror was gloating over his victory against Britain in 1066, Iron-Age communities on the banks of the Limpopo River were bartering gold and ivory with Swahili traders for glass beads from Egypt, cotton from India […]

Mick Cleary predicts that Will Carling’s side will adopt a sober approach to halt the All Blacks in their semifinal on ROB ANDREW’S kick fell to earth immediatley. Quite how long it takes England to come down to earth is probably the key to whether they can beat the All Blacks in Sunday’s The team […]

Kiri Te Kanawa is visiting South Africa at the height of her ability to draw crowds. Coenraad Visser reports IT was with a sense of relief that one greeted Dame Kiri Te Kanawa at her first encounter with the press shortly after her arrival in Johannesburg. She currently limits her public appearances to about 18 […]

A police colonel, an army brigadier and a top Inkatha official have been charged with the 1987 KwaMakhutha massacre. Anne Eveleth this week revisited the scene where a priest and a dozen women and children were assassinated The sun was setting over the rambling hills of KwaMakhutha, 25km south of Durban, as we navigated the […]

Justin Pearce Kathy Berman, producer of NNTV’s youth magazine programme The Works, is to conduct her own defence when the SABC appears before the Broadcasting Complaints Commission (BCC) today. The SABC has been summoned before the BCC in connection with an insert entitled Sex and Romance in the Nineties which was broadcast as part of […]

Reg Rumney Housing subsidies and infrastructure have the biggest chunk of allocations from the Reconstruction and Development Programme Fund — R1,4-billion out of R7,8-billion. This is revealed in Minister without Portfolio Jay Naidoo’s report to Parliament last week, Taking the RDP Forward. The document shows R1,4-billion has been allocated from the RDP Fund to boost […]