Review of the week : Brenda Atkinson Roger van Wyk, all Capetonian cool and soft round vowels and mad professor hair, has had two espressos, and he’s on a roll, his lucid rapid-fire monologue dragging my morning brain into foreign terrain. In Van Wyk’s world, the world of Transmission – his show at the Rembrandt […]

Jim White : A Second Look Brian Lara is renowned in cricket as an active disciple of the Geoffrey Boycott school: nothing matters as much as himself, or rather his bank balance. Yet in an affair which initially seemed little more than another piece of financial brinkmanship by the world’s most gifted batsman, it is […]

Mail & Guardian reporter The Human Rights Commission (HRC) has thrown out a complaint of subliminal racism laid against the Mail & Guardian and Sunday Times newspapers by the Association of Black Accountants and the Black Lawyers Association. The request for an investigation was turned down “because the issue of racism in the media is […]

Ann Eveleth : In the Act Civilian victims of the latest series of conflicts afflicting Southern Africa will welcome the news that South Africa’s first- ever Refugees Bill is rapidly traversing the corridors of power. More than three decades after anti-colonial and civil wars first engulfed the region – creating large numbers of refugees – […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Friday 12.45pm. A SHOWDOWN between diversified African industrial group Lonrho Africa and its largest shareholder, emerging markets fund Blakeney Management, is looming as Blakeney is vying for control of the board after accusing it of giving a dismal performance. Lonrho annouced on Thursday it has scheduled an extraordinary general meeting for […]

Residents of De Buldt in the Karoo now have the resources to rebuild their homes, writes Tara Turkington At the end of a long dirt road in the barren Karoo lies a place where residents defied apartheid, and got away with it. Although now almost a ruin, a major award has given it a brighter […]

Chiara Carter and Marianne Merten A legend who lived a fast life and died a hard death is the inevitable epitaph for slain Cape Town gang leader Jackie Lonte. Lonte – born Neville Heroldt -scripted his life like a B-grade gangster movie and mythologised himself in a city where his gang, the Americans, has resonance […]

John Naughton There is a saying in the computer business that “only the paranoid survive”. The man who has taken it most to heart is Microsoft’s Bill Gates. The pace of change in the computing industry is such that if you blink you might not spot the threat. Gates blinked spectacularly in 1994, when Netscape […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Friday 11.50pm. THE Transvaal attorney-general’s office is currently investigating possible tampering with evidence from the plane crash that killed Mozambican president Samora Machel by former security police chief General Krappies Engelbrecht. The investigation could lead to a prosecution. Engelbrecht is one of several apartheid-era generals being scrutinised by the special investigation […]

Fiona Macleod Riccardo Ghiazza, the animal dealer at the centre of the furore about the export of 30 baby elephants from the Tuli bushlands, sold two African elephants to pop idol Michael Jackson in 1993. Jackson is listed by the United States Fisheries and Wildlife as one of the American clients who have bought more […]