Bulelwa Payi The Black Sash has been brought back from the brink of collapse — at least for another six months. A representative, Zodwa Masina, said this week the organisation had received donations which “rescued ” it from closure. She would not divulge who the donors were nor the amount received. “We got money to […]

Joe Slovo was the man who brokered the agreement which lead to majority rule. Jonathan Steele pays tribute to to a principled persuader JOE SLOVO had the good fortune to see the promised land. After living in exile for many years, and after the South African Communist Party was unbanned, he helped majority rule come […]

Jan Taljaard: Pretoria SELDOM shy of a good idea, the die-hard leader of the Boerestaat Party, Robert van Tonder, has established the right-wing’s own reconstruction and development programme. It is unlikely that minister Jay Naidoo will ever be part of this RDP, even though the somewhat idiosyncratic Van Tonder is a businessman of no small […]

Steuart Wright in East London THE East Griqualand town of Matatiele was under siege this week as local businessmen retaliated against a consumer boycott by blocking outside traders from selling to boycotters. The businessmen, hard hit by a five-day consumer boycott which has cost the town more than R6-million, blocked three roads to the town […]

A unique scheme allows workers to become co-owners of the farm they once only laboured on, reports Gaye Davis LIKE his father before him, Herklaas Botha (26) started working the land just as soon as he was old enough. But it was always someone else’s land. When he arrived at Whitehall Farm, near Grabouw, six […]

CINEMA: Shaun de Waal DOMINIC SENA’S film Kalifornia, which is a few years old now, was not a big hit in Britain or America. We may never have seen it on the big screen here had it not been for Brad Pitt’s recent success, or the ascendance of Juliette Lewis in films like Natural Born […]

A Peruvian bus trip demonstrates to Old Mutual economist Terence Moll just how ineffectual government economic controls can be ACROSS the valley, lights loomed in the desert night and a subdued murmur ran through the bus. The large Peruvian woman in front of me hitched her seat forward and I stretched for the first time […]

CRICKET: Luke Alfred SEEKING someone to head the Plascon Cricket Academy, the United Cricket Board could hardly have chosen better than Clive Rice. Given that Rice’s 24 years at the top were bolstered by a mean streak second to none, it seemed logical to ask him if the belligerence which characterised his career wasn’t perhaps […]

Mduduzi ka Harvey CRACKS are starting to show in the fragile East Rand peace as tensions grow between Thokoza residents, self-defence unit members and the newly formed Reservist Unit because of allegations that some reservists are undisciplined, trigger happy, out of control and unaccountable to the police. The unit, which was formed before the elections, […]