A local environmental project is teaching people in under-resourced areas how to make the most of what they have Barry Streek This week 22 Cape Town teachers went on a five-day permaculture process course at a Khayelitsha school as part of a pioneering new approach to incorporate environmental education in schools. The course, conducted by […]

Philip French Not all great movie meals are enticing banquets and one of the most famous of all is as nightmarish as it’s funny. It’s one of the four celebrated meals in Charlie Chaplin’s The Gold Rush, a personal favourite among his pictures made in 1925. In one of them, Chaplin pretends to be a […]

BOXING Deon Potgieter Harry Simon, the first Namibian to win a boxing world title, is looking to further entrench his name in history by challenging for a world title in a higher weight division. Not only is Simon, the World Boxing Organisation (WBO) junior-middleweight champion, moving up in weight, he’s also moving up in quality. […]

Glenda Daniels The grey area of what constitutes “unwanted” sexual conduct in the workplace will become clearer when a Labour Court case brought on behalf of a woman by the Women’s Legal Centre in Cape Town is heard in November. This will be the first time in South Africa that there is a claim for […]

Ngwako Modjadji The Land Claims Commission in the Northern Province is investigating the self-styled king of the Babirwa, Moses Mangena, who is allocating land he claims was removed from his people during apartheid. Mangena has lodged formal restitution claims for Bakgalaka and Nkuna land in the Lenyenye township. Land Claims Commission project officer Kgotatso Mokgakane […]

Thuli Nhlapo Two government departments are divided over plans by a state oil prospecting company, to extend its operations into the war-torn Sudan. The Department of Foreign Affairs has warned the Department of Mineral and Energy Affairs that plans by Soekor, a state-owned oil and gas exploration and production company, to extend its operations into […]

A book by a left-wing academic and an Italian prisoner is taking the United States by storm Ed Vulliamy How often can it happen that a book is swept off the shelves until you can’t find a copy in New York for love nor money? The library’s edition is reserved for the foreseeable future. Amazon’s […]

More familiar as a young mafioso in The Sopranos, on closer inspection Michael Imperioli proves to be the world’s politest wiseguy Danny Leigh Here, let me take your coat. An ashtray? Sure, sure. Use mine …” For a man who has, over the past three years, shot a hapless patisserie assistant in the foot, jammed […]

EDUCATION minister Kader Asmal’s Working Group for the National Institute for Higher Education has called for submissions for a university to be established in Mpumalanga. The submissions should identify programmes and skills that need to be developed in the province, including the role that the existing education infrastructure such as colleges could play. Working Group […]

MPUMALANGA’S Attorney Council, which represents 433 mostly white attorneys in the province, agreed on Thursday to amend its constitution to make the body more representative. MAC spokeswoman Constanze van der Walt said the organisation signed a declaration of intent agreeing to constitutional changes and restructuring during discussions with the Mpumalanga chapters of the Black Lawyers […]