The Ben Trovato Files is a book that refuses to be restrained within the boundaries of fiction and non-fiction. Instead, it ranges across a murky middle ground that, like the author, is not easily identified. These are Unabomber tactics, but here satire has replaced Semtex. Trovato is a conventional maverick who writes in a genre […]

Nawaal Deane Soaring across the sky over the Magaliesberg mountains, the Bateleurs were on a mission to get a bird’s eye-view of the impact of granite mining on these hills. Named after the majestic eagle, “The Bateleurs Flying for the Environment” is a non-earthbound NGO, providing pilots and aircraft to monitor the impact of a […]

Fiona Macleod Anita Roddick, founder of international cosmetics success The Body Shop, challenged the South African government this week to put its lip-gloss where its mouth is when it comes to supplying the country’s energy needs. She plans to make power generated by natural processes such as wind and solar energy as opposed to nuclear […]

There is also strong speculation that the deal will involve a ministerial and deputy ministerial post for the NNP at national level Marianne Merten The Western Cape African National Congress looks set to forego the provincial premiership in exchange for the majority of seats on the provincial cabinet, as part of the co-operation pact with […]

Jaspreet Kindra The African National Congress’s membership figures in KwaZulu-Natal are to be audited for a second time this year, amid complaints that the recount is a side-effect of the power struggle between provincial party chairperson S’bu Ndebele and his deputy Zweli Mkhize. “There is such a feeling of distrust everybody is suspicious of each […]

The Treatment Action Campaign is seeking an order that nevirapine must be made available to all state hospitals and clinics Nawaal Deane “We see our wards full … of wasted little infants, struggling to breathe despite oxygen, refusing to feed as swallowing is too painful because of extensive candidiasis, with itchy, uncomfortable skin rashes. These […]

Walid Hijazi and Jubie Matlou Two research study results were presented at this year’s NGO Week detailing the profile and socio-economic role of non-profit organisations in South Africa. The one study by the Graduate School of Public and Development Management (University of Witwatersrand), which forms part of the Comparative Non-profit Sector Project coordinated by the […]

The west stereotypes Asian men as weak, subservient, effeminate. No wonder they’re fighting back BODY LANGUAGE Tania Branigan ‘Hitler has only got one ball, Goering has two but very small. Himmler is very sim’lar, and Goebbels has no balls at all.” When World War II troops sang that ditty, the words were tongue- in-cheek. Sixty […]

Drew Forrest A newly released study on a powerful Lebowa chief’s land grab before the 1994 election sheds a harsh light on the abuses and conflicts that could follow the large-scale transfer of communal land to traditional “communities”. The study, by Aninka Claassens, analyses events in the Northern Province area of Rakgwadi, near Marble Hall, […]

CRICKET Peter Robinson South Africa and India will risk the wrath of the International Cricket Council (ICC) by dispensing with the services of controversial match referee Mike Denness for the third match starting at SuperSport Park on Friday. United Cricket Board (UCB) chief executive Gerald Majola said the South African and Indian boards had agreed […]