Barry Streek The Cape Town City Council’s rules committee is meeting today and is expected to clear suspended mayor Peter Marais, allowing him to be reinstated by Monday. Should Marais be reinstated in this manner, major conflict within the ruling Democratic Alliance is likely to burst out into the open and could eventually lead to […]

DANCE Guy Willoughby Cape Town’s annual contemporary dance festival, the FNB Vita Indaba, held over four chock-a-block days at the Artscape Theatre, offered riveting work, including major new ensemble pieces by Tossie van Tonder, Christopher Kindo and Vincent Mantsoe, among others Standards were uneven the selection process needs to be re-examined closely but in general […]

SOCCER Ntuthuko Maphumulo The Mother City should brace itself for one of its biggest soccer days in living memory as the Coca-Cola Cup double-header descends on the quiet suburb of Newlands on Sunday. The biggest teams in the country, Kaizer Chiefs and Orlando Pirates, will take on two of the city’s biggest clubs, Hellenic and […]

Marianne Merten African National Congress MP James Ngculu has emerged as a potential challenger to Ebrahim Rasool for the position of Western Cape party chairperson. Ngculu, a former provincial secretary of the party, has the backing of the ANC Youth League to unseat Rasool at the party’s provincial conference. The league has a small minority […]

Reserve Bank Governor Tito Mboweni theorised that the only people interested in the scrapping of exchange control are those who intend packing for Perth (September 28). I trust a man of his obvious intelligence was in a good mood and speaking lightly. My question to academic economists: has exchange control cost South Africa, as a […]

RUGBY Grant Shimmin inWellington One of the more dramatic ironies of the rugby year is that the team that finished bottom of the Tri-Nations log is the only one still to have the same national coach it started the year with. Then again, South Africa don’t have that many potential Bok coaches left to hire […]

As the rand collapses and global recession threatens South Africa, the Mail & Guardian has invited leading economic thinkers to explain what these recent, sudden changes in our economic environment mean and what we can do about them. Despite the writers’ diverse backgrounds, there is agreement that a major rethink of the government’s economic strategy […]

SENIOR African National Congress officials will meet their counterparts from the MPLA (Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola) in Johannesburg on Thursday. ”The objectives of the meeting will be the sharing of information about the current developments in Angola, including the peace process, the impact of the ongoing war in the country, and in […]

SANDILE Nthsakala, editor of the Swazi Observer was killed in Mbuleni near Manzini on the early hours of Monday morning after working through the Monday edition of newspaper. Nthsakala who has been the editor of the Swazi Observer for about 4 months was visiting a friend and was in the company of a colleague Bongani […]

THE Cape Town unicity’s rules committee is expected to make a finding on Friday on whether the city’s mayor, Peter Marais, breached any councillors’ code of conduct. Marais has been put on special leave pending the outcome of a probe into a street naming saga which backfired on him and deputy mayor Belinda Walker has […]