Belinda Beresford A leading United States researcher on HIV/Aids has formally complained about “gross misrepresentation” in the coverage of his research in the African National Congress’s online magazine, ANC Today. Dr Jeffrey D Klausner, who is also one of the top HIV/Aids officials for the City of San Francisco, wrote a letter to ANC Today […]
Stefaans Brmmer, Mungo Soggot and Nawaal Deane Irvin Khoza’s close association with a self-proclaimed apartheid military agent during the liberation struggle is at odds with the soccer boss’s reputation as a staunch African National Congress cadre. The relationship between Khoza and Petrus Johannes Koekemoer, alias Peter Murray, pretty much exemplifies that darker part of the […]
crossfire Will Hutton Slavery is America’s incubus. It made racist hypocrites of the founding fathers who drafted a Constitution and Bill of Rights that proclaimed individual liberties for all as long as they were white, knowing exactly what they were doing. It disfigured American society for 250 years while it was practised, and for another […]
Barry Streek The suspension of one of Parliament’s most senior officials, Lulu Matyolo, the Secretary of the National Council of Provinces (NCOP), was lifted this week but her return to office has resulted in a written complaint to the Public Protector, Selby Baqwa. The complaint to Baqwa not only contains the allegations that relate to […]
SWIMMING Frank Keating One of sport’s most intense and antique challenges is reaching its high-season fulfilment. It is an international sporting contest famed throughout the world and a more ancient one than any organised by soccer. It is older than cricket’s Ashes (established 1884) or tennis’s Wimbledon (1877). It remains unimpeachably amateur and has been […]
I note remarks by Tito Mboweni that events in Zimbabwe and observations by the Pan Africanist Congress’s secretary general are weakening the rand. I was shocked that he joins in the crude analysis that has entered our political economy. He says the “fundamentals” are in place, yet explains the weakening rand in marginal factors that […]
South Africa need to sort out the basics when they begin a busy Test season next week Peter Robinson Next Friday Shaun Pollock’s South Africans start their first Test match of the summer in Harare against Zimbabwe. Come April 9 next year, South Africa will have played in 11 Test matches and comfortably more than […]
Ufrieda Ho Up to 45% of drug cases are being tossed out of court a staggering statistic that indicates rot in the law enforcement system. This finding is drawn from statistics in six provinces, excluding the Western, Eastern and Northern Cape. It reveals a system dogged by a lack of integrity and competence by police […]
Andy Capostagno Now that the Tri-Nations is over for South Africa, it’s back to politics. Never mind the fact that the Springboks finished last in the tournament, let’s get into a tizzy about players being poached by British clubs. Let’s ignore the fact that two months ago the South African Rugby Football Union (Sarfu) gave […]
A new project has the huge task of changing perceptions that history is a dead-end subject Nawaal Deane “In one major Free State town, only three out of 24 schools continue to offer history up to matriculation level,” said Minister of Education Kader Asmal at the launch of the South African History Project this week. […]