OVER 140 inmates die in Ugandan prisons every year due to poor conditions, a situation aggravated by the country’s HIV/Aids epidemic, a prisons official said on Thursday. Prison representative Mary Kaddu told reporters at a conference on conditions in African prisons, including human rights, that a report compiled by the prison department showed that over […]

Jo Nel Anatomy of dark: collected poems of arthur nortje edited by Dirk Klopper (Unisa) In 1972, exiled South African critic Lewis Nkosi wrote in The Will to Die: “Time, frustration and despair, with their attendant drugs alcohol and suicide are taking a toll on South African writers. Nat Nakasa. Ingrid Jonker. Now Can Themba […]

A personal account of sexual temptations and their terrifying repercussions Aids is poised to curtail life itself, but for many people, life goes on as if Aids does not exist. And any discussion of HIV/Aids inevitably becomes personal. Just pay attention to this detail from real life in the streets. Not that Aids awareness campaigns […]

Set-top boxes are about to revolutionise the way we “consume” television by making it more interactive David Shapshak When Bill Gates famously ignored the Internet until his equally famous turnaround that propelled Microsoft into its current leading position in numerous Net technologies he thought the next big thing was going to be interactive television. Despite […]

Fiona Macleod People who like putting their food outside as well as inside themselves are flocking in droves to the new South African outlets of international cosmetics success The Body Shop. The rate at which the body butters thick creams made with nuts, honey, mangoes, olives, soya or cocoa have been flying off the shelves […]

spirit level Cedric Mayson A coven of Western witches exists in South Africa, complete with white pancake make-up, straggly hair and bangles. We have entranced people who walk through fire; men who dress in the vestments of the European middle ages, others in skins and beads, women who wear hats or dance on beaches, and […]

The voice of Nelson Mandela, imprisoned in 1964 and sworn in as South Africa’s president 30 years later, was preserved forever on Thursday.

Paul Kirk President Thabo Mbeki’s ministerial committee that oversaw the Government’s R66-billion arms acquisition intervened to set conditions for the arms investigation after Minister of Defence Mosiuoa Lekota initially gave investigators carte blanche. The Mail & Guardian reported earlier that the executive invoked sections of the apartheid-era Special Defence Account Act to give the government […]

The already long Sun City course is playing even longer for the elite field this week Michael Vlismas The English weather that has descended upon the Pilanesberg is obviously the reason Lee Westwood is able to overlook both his own dismal form and that of his racehorse this year in the hope at least one […]