Cosatu and the ANC are determined to stem the rising tide of xenophobia, reports Drew Forrest RESISTANCE to hardline Home Affairs Ministry policy on illegal immigration is crystallising in both the ANC and its trade union ally, the Congress of South African Trade Unions. This week Cosatu’s Neil Coleman hit out at “the narrow chauvinism” […]

THEATRE: Guy Willoughby Put together by its six creators for a frankly polemical purpose, Manje (“Now”) protests the harsh and sordid conditions that women in South African prisons have had to endure. If that sounds a rather daunting drawcard for an outing to the Civic Theatre, rest assured that this montage of mime, song, dialogue […]

Wiseman Khuzwayo STOCK exchange whizzkid Greg Blank, now serving time for fraud, will be treated the same as any other prisoner, says the Department of Correctional Services. Blank began serving his eight-year sentence last Saturday after exhausting his opportunities to appeal against it. But South Africa does not have US-style special prisons for “white collar” […]

In his first interview since the royal shake-up, Prince Mcwayizeni Zulu talks to Ann Eveleth THERE was an emotive ritual outside King Goodwill Zwelithini’s palace gates last Tuesday to mark his rapprochement with Senior Prince Mcwayizeni Zulu. “In accordance with tradition, we each stood outside the palace gates and a man poured fire ash into […]

Well-known figures have been blamed for the waste of millions of rands by the National Co-ordinating Committee for the Return of Exiles, says a confidential report. Wiseman Khuzwayo reports A CONFIDENTIAL report on the disbanded National Co- ordinating Committee for the Return of Exiles (NCCR) charges that the organisation was dogged by fraud and corruption […]

Critical Consumer Pat Sidley EVER wondered why you get off a long-haul flight feeling tired, clogged up or — worse still — carrying the start of your fellow passenger’s cold? The likely answer is not to be found in the mysteries of jet lag and circadian rhythm, but in the air you have been breathing […]

British prime minister John Major led a host of international sports stars and the media around township sports facilities, writes Paul Martin WITH Wednesday’s rival attractions conveniently divided by that compulsory cricket tradition, the lunch-break, cognoscenti had the mouth-watering prospect of admiring the 12 or so balls Brian Lara stroked in the Soweto nets after […]

Native tongue Bafana Khumalo MOTHERS of the world, a terrible thing is about to happen to your sons, again. The Seventies are coming back! The fashion — flared jeans and high-heeled shoes for men — and the music. Those were terrible times. The best we could do for intense entertainment was to listen to some […]