I was misrepresented in “State’s cholera efforts ‘off the mark’” (January 11). I told your reporter that I was not in a position to comment on government strategy on cholera intervention in KwaZulu-Natal, but that the Mvula Trust’s approach was to put up “multiple barriers” against water-borne disease. These include: provision of safe water for […]

Q&A FREDABRAHAMSE Guy Willoughby Ebullient Cape Town director Fred Abrahamse unveils his 1960s “summer of love” version of the Bard’s romantic comedy A Midsummer Night’s Dream at Maynardville this week. So why a 1960s setting? My recollections of the 1960s I was a child, by the way, not a teenager, as some people think was […]

Duncan Mackay in Melbourne A wisp of a young woman who looks as if one gust of wind would blow her away played in Melbourne not just for glory, but for the emancipation of her sisters all 140-million of them. Selima Sfar’s appearance in the Australian Open went beyond the sporting arena and became a […]

The Southern African Development Community declined to get tough with Zimbabwe, report Wisani wa ka Ngobeni and Drew Forrest President Robert Mugabe should be given “the benefit of the doubt” on his pledge to hold free and fair presidential elections, and the region could not use sanctions or threats to hold him to his word, […]

New local research challenges President Thabo Mbeki’s stance on treating the pandemic Charlene Smith and Nawaal Deane A groundbreaking study by a Johannesburg clinic has provided incontrovertible evidence that anti-retroviral drugs stave off HIV infection in raped women if taken soon after the attack. The findings of the study, conducted on hundreds of rape survivors […]

Sandile Ngidi The Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) and the National Community Radio Forum (NCRF) are close to sealing a deal to enhance the sustainable growth of community radio in South Africa. At the heart of the agreement is a proposal that the NCRF takes management control of Cosatu’s financially embattled Campaign for […]

The continental showpiece has overcome big odds since its start 45 years ago Shyaka Kanuma The Africa Cup of Nations has come a long way since the inaugural three-team tournament in Khartoum in 1957. The vision of the founder of the African Football Confederation, Ethiopian Yidnekatchew Tessema, was to create a showpiece platform for Africa’s […]

SERJEANT AT THE BAR As the first year of the new century has come to an end, it is an opportune time to prepare a report card on our constitutional state. In general terms much progress has been made over the past seven years. The Constitutional Court is now an established institution and its president, […]

The Constitutional Court faces its most delicate test yet comment Richard Calland It was actually one of this government’s most cogently argued defensive positions. But why it took Minister of Health Manto Tshabalala-Msimang two weeks to prepare her defence of the government’s decision to appeal the high court judgement directing state health authorities to make […]

A joint committee of senior African National Congress and Inkatha Freedom Party politicians, under Deputy President Jacob Zuma, has been charged with breaking the long-standing impasse between Minister of Home Affairs Mangosuthu Buthelezi and his Director General, Billy Masetlha, writes Bongani Majola. As well as Zuma and Buthelezi, the committee includes ANC-linked Deputy Minister of […]