Vusi Nhlapo is either hailed as a hero or reviled as a mindless militant. Eddie Koch meets the man in charge of the union behind the conflict at Wits BURLY, tough-talking, and uncompromising would be useful adjectives to describe Vusi Nhlapo, except for the fact that they belie an air of loneliness, a hint of […]
SAILING: Jonathan Spencer Jones AFTER 29 days and 16 hours at sea, Frenchman Christophe Auguin on Sceta Calberson arrived in Punta del Este, Uruguay, to win the third leg of the BOC Challenge singlehanded around the world race with a new record, some one day 11 hours better than the previous record set by compatriot […]
GOLF: Jon Swift WHILE this country basks in the glow of a memorable inaugural win in the Alfred Dunhill Challenge at Houghton, there are some areas which requrie some thought before next season’s professional tour kicks for next year, there is no Dunhill Challenge to take the edge off some of the problems which lurk […]
An activist who campaigned for rent boycotts during the apartheid years now uses the same tactics to persuade people to pay for services, reports Gaye Davis AS a young activist, Chris Ngcobo used to go door to door persuading Soweto residents to boycott rent and service payments. That was in the late 1980s, when the […]
Analysis: Anton Harber AN Inkatha Freedom Party decision to quit the Government of National Unity will set the scene for a period of intense conflict between the central government and kwaZulu/Natal. The IFP agenda is clear and has been expressed by senior leaders: to cement their provincial base and launch a strong push for regional […]
Lewis Machipisa in Harare Zimbabwe’s four-year-old economic structural adjustment programme (Esap) has failed to meet its key targets, despite strides to implement the austere measures, says a report by a leading Zimbabwean bank. According to the strategic planning division of Standard Chartered Bank, the government has not been able to check its extravagant spending, money […]
RUGBY: Luke Alfred GLADWELL MAJALIMA and I are sitting next to each other watching the members of his club practising against a distant backdrop of fir and eucalyptus trees. It is the last day of February and the first chill of winter is in the air. We could be in southern Scotland or parts of […]
THREE cheers for Frene Ginwala, speaker of the National Assembly, for apologising for the role of her predecessors, now colleagues in the government of national unity, in devastating neighbouring Mozambique. She said what had to be said, and she did it with appropriate dignity and forthrightness. It is unusual for a speaker of parliament to […]
Steuart Wright in East London FORESTRY officials are racing against the clock to find a mate for the sole surviving elephant of the world- famous herd which roamed the Knysna forest at the turn of the century. Trouble is, they’re not sure of the sex of the Three young Kruger National Park cows were relocated […]
THERE is a common belief that the ANC’s fiery four — Winnie Mandela, Bantu Holomisa, Peter Mokaba and Rocky Malebane-Metsing — are too powerful and too popular among the grassroots for the party to deal with them firmly and adequately. This is a myth that needs to be Most of the power and influence of […]