Ngwako Modjadji Richard Chauke wants to study information technology at university after completing matric this year. But it will be a mammoth task to realise his dream because his school has not yet received textbooks and other study materials. With just two months before the start of final exams, Masedi Secondary School in the Northern […]

Khadija Magardie Just mention the word “Kurdistan” and Bakhtiar Amir’s eyes light up. Amir, a Kurdish rights activist, is at the World Conference against Racism in Durban to petition the international community to remember the Kurds of Iraq. Kurds have existed in the Middle East since ancient times, but centuries later are still fighting for […]

The company has started a comprehensively equipped deep sea rescue and recovery facility Barry Streek In the wake of the Kursk submarine disaster off the Russian coast, a Cape Town entrepreneur, Gary van der Merwe, has spent more than R120-million to establish a submarine rescue operation in the South Atlantic and Indian oceans. His Win […]

Ntuthuko Maphumulo Natasha “Iron Lady” Tishiclas of Sundowns and Irvin “Iron Duke” Khoza of Orlando Pirates wield great power in South African soccer circles and abroad and their teams have shown in recent weeks that they are a law unto themselves. Last month Pirates players protested so vehemently against a decision taken by the referee […]

An activist has spent two years trying to get an Aids nappy initiative off the ground Charlene Smith Yvonne Spain has a dream of women across Southern Africa sitting at sewing machines making adult nappies for people with Aids. The final stages of Aids is a cruel, hopeless time for those ill with the virus. […]

theatre Guy Willoughby Sorrows and Rejoicings, the latest in the astonishing treasure trove of South African experience that is Athol Fugard’s corpus, is centrally concerned with exile and its consequences for the artist a pertinent theme in a country whose best creators have so often, of choice or necessity, lived overseas. Fugard’s hero is Dawid […]

The turbulent history of Durban’s Indian community is on show in two theatre productions and a photographic exhibition in the city Alexander Sudheim The World Conference against Racism provided a moment for the international community to take a long, hard look at difficult issues. The climate also provided an opportunity for local communities to reflect […]

Evidence wa ka Ngobeni The Pan Africanist Congress in the Eastern Cape has slammed the provincial administration for failing to spend funds earmarked for service delivery programmes in the rural areas. Speaking after the party’s Eastern Cape regional congress at the weekend, PAC leaders said the party was concerned about the provincial government’s failure to […]

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Issues have emerged in Durban that will not be stopped by logical debate Comment Margaret Legum The NGO gathering at the United Nations’s World Conference against Racism was a good place to test the future in terms of ideas that will not go away. Such ideas represent movements of people that have a universal moral […]