Adekeye Adebajo argues that the formation of the Mandela Rhodes Foundation is a dubious attempt to rehabilitate the legacy of Rhodes and bemoans Mandela’s association with this attempt. However, his article suggests that he understands very little about what the foundation stands for or seeks to promote, writes Tristan Görgens.

Two months ago Justin Gatlin, the joint world 100m record holder and reigning Olympic sprint champion, gave a remarkably prescient interview to the magazine Sports Illustrated: ”I understand what it would mean to track and field if I ever tested positive or went down in some scandal. Not to have an ego about it, but it might be the KO for our sport.”

United States Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said on Monday she believed a ceasefire to end fighting between Israel and the Hezbollah guerrilla group in Lebanon could be forged this week. Rice told reporters in Jerusalem that she would call for a United Nations resolution this week on the ceasefire and also the establishment of an international stabilisation force for Lebanon.

You would expect the driver of a cash-transporting truck to be a big, robust guy, but Elijah Gumbi is thin and old for his 42 years. He limps, dragging his heavy security guard’s boots across the tiles at Coin Security’s offices in Centurion. Softly spoken and everybody’s pal, Gumbi looks as if he wouldn’t hurt a fly. At Coin Security’s Pretoria branch, however, he is the longest-serving and most trusted driver.

Bongani Nxumalo ”stole” a firearm from a relative to carry out the robbery that put him in jail for five years. Another firearm, from a friend, was only a call away. ”Guns are easy to get,” he said in an interview recently. Soft-spoken Nxumalo was recently paroled from the Emthonjeni juvenile section of Pretoria’s Baviaanspoort Correctional Centre.

Environmental activists are pitting government departments against each other in a desperate bid to save Gauteng’s last wild mountain space from becoming a concrete jungle. Without drastic intervention, they warn, the popular Walter Sisulu National Botanical Gardens on the West Rand will be decimated by townhouse estate development.

Lesley-Ann van Selm, MD of Khulisa, one of the country’s most effective crime rehabilitation organisations, could have been forgiven if she had joined the chicken run after what happened in May this year. Her daughter Jackie was shot in the neck in a daylight hijacking outside her boyfriend’s Johannesburg home.