attacks Marion Edmunds Western Cape police have put rural landowners in the Boland on a security alert for fear of attacks on farms by the Pan Africanist Congress’s disbanded armed wing, the Azanian People’s Liberation Army (Apla). Police have been visiting owners of farms and smallholdings, warning them of the possibility of attack, encouraging extra […]

Peter Makurube When you hear Philip Tabane play guitar you know you are in the presence of greatness. Tabane is the spiritual and creative force behind Malombo, a band that is a national institution or would be if South Africa cared much about original music. This weekend, those who do care will once again have […]

Anthony Kunda in Lusaka The detention of former Zambian president Kenneth Kaunda in connection with the botched military putsch of October 28 last year has brought frustrating privations for journalists. The government has not introduced any new legislation to restrict the media. But the police seem to have become paranoid, especially about journalists from independent […]

Madeleine Roux: Moveable feast James Bond may be as as old as bri-nylon, but he is still the stuff of fantasy. So say the latest press releases about this old chauv and his three squeezes, who are appearing in yet another Bond movie, Tomorrow Never Dies. Suspecting an end to our long suspension of disbelief […]

Andy Duffy Colin Stanfield is expected to return to his Cape Flats roots this weekend to meet the mother of a 22-year-old who died on his doorstep. Stanfield has done well from his time leading the powerful gang cartel, The Firm. The alleged drug baron lives in a plush house in Baltinore Road, one of […]

FRIDAY, 6.00PM: THE bullion price on Friday rose to above $290 an ounce as United States hedge funds covered themselves ahead of a US long weekend, which pushed the Johannesburg Stock Exchange gold index up 7%, carrying with it the rand and the JSE’s all share index. At day’s end the financial index had risen […]

Sechaba ka’Nkosi The African National Congress’s biggest alliance partner, the Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu), will spend most of 1998 campaigning against the ANC’s lynchpin policy. At the centre of the looming confrontation is an assertion by senior ANC leaders in Mafikeng during its conference last month that its Growth, Employment and Redistribution […]

Neil Manthorp : Cricket South Africa’s domination of the World Series one-day competition in Australia has been almost embarrassing. Actually, it has been extremely embarrassing to Australia who have changed their squad and tried to adapt to the modern trends of instant cricket after half a decade of laurel- resting; they are still being stuffed. […]

With the trade talks on track, the EU’s first man in South Africa is returning to Brussels confident his time has been well spent, writes Madeleine Wackernagel Erwan Four has a knack for leaving a posting just before disaster strikes — once in Venezuela, prior to the 1989 riots; and again in Mexico, ahead of […]

Charlene Smith Part of the unemployment problem is matching an employer’s needs with workers’ skills. With this in mind, the Department of Labour has embarked on a strategy — as part of a R200-million European Union loan for skills development — to create job banks. Director General Sipho Pityana says employers will be able to […]