Forcing unequipped black players into a national side cannot be the answer, writes Drew Forrest One might think from the comments made by Department of Sport and Recreation spokesman Graham Abrahams that South Africa’s cricket establishment is crawling with unreconstructed racists bent on keeping black players out of the national side. Racial motives are imputed […]

Peter Robinson Not so much a case of peace breaking out, perhaps, as cricket settling into an uneasy truce, but it would be churlish to deny that the United Cricket Board (UCB) moved with unusual speed this week to try and heal the mostly self-inflicted wounds that have opened since January 2. Clive Rice and […]

In at least one instance recommendations of the weapons probe were watered down Paul Kirk The joint investigation team report into the controversial arms deal was changed during the drafting process, shielding a senior naval officer from a called-for sleaze investigation. Investigators involved in the drafting of the report, released in final form to Parliament […]

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Andr Zaaiman was instrumental in setting up the South African gathering of goodwill representatives from Israel and Palestine Barry Streek A South African conflict negotiator and white former Umkhonto weSizwe operative, Andr Zaaiman, has emerged as the key behind-the-scenes figure in this week’s closed-door meeting between Israelis, Palestinians and South Africans aimed at strengthening the […]

South Africa will battle to beat the Kiwis, too Peter Robinson The prospect of finishing third in a tri-nations tournament involving Australia and New Zealand would be too gloomy for words were it not for the fact that the Springboks have hardened South Africans to this bleak possibility over the past few years. In other […]

A top government official has barred doctors from giving anti-retrovirals even to raped infants Khadija Magardie and Nawaal Deane As South Africa was reeling at the news of an alleged gang-rape and sodomising of a nine-month-old baby in Upington last November, the Northern Cape MEC for health was blasting a Kimberley hospital for giving the […]

Glenda Daniels Interminable talks on civil service retrenchments are back to where they were a year ago, as government and unions prepare to renegotiate restructuring guidelines agreed at last year’s public service job summit. The 12 unions and the government, which employs more than a million people, failed to meet a December 12 deadline last […]

Lusaka | Thursday THE International Monetary Fund (IMF) on Wednesday promised to support Zambia’s new government, and said the country was on the right track towards economic growth. “In the last two years, the economy seems to be moving towards the (targeted) growth rate,” IMF deputy managing director Shigemitsu Sugisaki said after arriving with his […]

Contestants in a new reality TV show may not know what they’re signing up for Thebe Mabanga South Africa’s latest reality TV show, Idols, may capture audience imaginations in the same way as, or even better than, its predecessor Big Brother did, but the show may hit snags on the legal front. Following the success […]