Evidence wa ka Ngobeni Two days after the World Conference against Racism ended in Durban, thousands of Eastern Cape residents went on the rampage, looting shops belonging to foreign, Muslim businessmen. Kwanobuhle police spokesperson Senior Superintendent Nkosinathi Isaac, who described the incident as the “worst xenophobic incident ever in the Eastern Cape”, said Somali and […]

Neal Collins So it’s all off. The Champions League fixtures have been cancelled. No more talk of Manchester United’s “life-or-death” clash with Olymp-iakos, or the “tragedy” of Arsenal’s defeat at Real Mallorca on Tuesday. No, the sensible course has been taken. Call it all off; give us time to reflect, let life, for those of […]

Marianne Merten Cape gang boss Rashied Staggie, who three years ago claimed he had found the Lord and renounced gangsterism, is facing charges of raping and kidnapping a 17-year old girl. He was released on bail of R10000 by the Mitchells Plain Regional Court on Monday after a week in custody. His co-accused’s bid for […]

Jaspreet Kindra South African Communist Party members are planning to haul communist Cabinet members over the coals this weekend for defying the party line by supporting and implementing the state’s privatisation policy. There is a groundswell of protest from almost all provincial structures over the role of SACP central executive members and party officials including […]

Analysis Iden Wetherell When Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe returned from Libya last weekend he was full of cheer that the Abuja agreement on Zimbabwe’s landreform programme had provided a welcome show of solidarity by African states. By Tuesday that optimism had evaporated as Mugabe had difficulty disguising his resentment of criticism from neighbours. While last […]

The FBI is struggling to reconstruct how the hijack operation was masterminded Duncan Campbell The four planes that were to change the way Americans live their lives set off within 12 minutes of each other from three different airports, all of which were on Wednesday examining their security procedures and wondering how four teams of […]

The US mobilises support from its Western allies for a crusade against Islamist terrorism Julian Borger in Washington, Richard Norton-Taylor and Ewen MacAskill in London and Ian Black in Brussels Nato is drawing up an emergency plan for a massive attack on Afghanistan if proof emerges that Osama bin Laden, the wanted Saudi-born terrorist sheltered […]

Now the applications have been completed, officials are faced with the tough task of allocating fishing rights Barry Streek The first phase of one of South Africa’s biggest empowerment deals the allocation of new fishing quotas was completed this week. Between 6 000 and 9 000 applications were expected for the 1 000 to 1 […]

The World Trade Centre not only dominated the skyscape of New York, but towered over the American imagination. Darryl Pinckney, who watched it being built, mourns the loss of a landmark No one I know loved the World Trade Centre, or recalled their first visits to it, in the way that they remember being taken […]

There is a view among some South Africans that the United States had its just desserts when hijacked airliners cannoned into the World Trade Centre and the Pentagon this week. Some even suggested that the attacks marked the beginning of the end of the “American empire”. The idea that US military and economic muscle has […]