Morgan Tsvangirai has been tipped as the next president of Zimbabwe. Rehana Rossouw and Jaspreet Kindra spoke to him about the prospects for a free and fair election next year, famine in Zimbabwe and his exit strategy for President Robert Mugabe Rehana Rossouw: According to opinion polls, you are going to be president of Zimbabwe […]

spirit level Cedric Mayson What do religious people have to celebrate? Jews have just had their high season. Hindus are praying and feasting for Diwali. Bahais are commemorating the birthday of Bahula. Muslims are about to begin Ramadan. And Christmas is about to leap over the horizon with a shower of stars and angels, cribs […]

The PAC and Cosatu have teamed up with civic and community groups to boot British multinational Biwater out of Nelspruit Glenda Daniels A strident battle has erupted over South Africa’s first test case of water privatisation and even President Thabo Mbeki is said to have entered the fray. The Pan Africanist Congress and the Congress […]

Khadija Magardie Residents of two tiny agricultural plots in Vanderbijlpark, an industrial town in the Vaal Triangle, will square up to iron and steel giant Iscor in the Johannesburg High Court early next week. Armed with a battery of medical reports, lawyers for 16 residents of Steel Valley and Linkholm Agricultural Holdings hope to prove […]

A second look Jaspreet Kindra After five years of exposure to politics in KwaZulu-Natal, spending a week at the national Parliament was an eye-opener. It was amazing how unsophisticated and aggressive the debate was in Cape Town. Attacks from either side were often personal and ineffective if intended to change the other side’s position. With […]

REVIEW Gavin Foster Triumph Speed Triple, R84998 It’s called evolution. The British built relatively crappy motorcycles and the Japanese first copied, then perfected them. Triumph, BSA, Norton, AJS, Matchless, Velocette and a dozen other manufacturers went to the wall while the Japs carried on making machines more suited to the racetrack and less street-usable. The […]

The sixth Spier Summer Arts Festival starts this week. Paul Boekkooi gives an overview of this unique event The Spier Estate setting just outside Stellenbosch certainly is breathtakingly beautiful. While all the major arts festivals run by the Rainbow Nation are compressed events lasting a maximum of some seven or eight days, Spier’s is in […]

analysis Nigel Bruce Whatever “good news” might have been announced under the three-year budget plan, it is certainly not being reflected in that most sensitive of economic barometers, the value of the currency. Nor does it seem to have occurred to those who echo this sentiment that there are reasons for the rand continuing to […]

Mungo Soggot and Barry Streek The Department of Defence’s chief of acquisitions, Chippy Shaik, has been blasted by the arms deal probe for his notorious conflict of interest and for possibly favouring his brother’s company over a more eligible bidder. Presenting the report to Parliament on Thursday, National Director of Public Prosecutions Bulelani Ngcuka signalled […]

SOCCER Ngwako Madjadji High-riding Kaizer Chiefs are expected to continue their clean sweep of trophies when they grapple with Inter Luanda in Angola in the first leg of the final of the African Cup Winners’ Cup, also known as the Mandela Cup, this weekend. Muhsin Ertugral’s side trekked to Angola with just a 16-man squad […]