Congress Mahlangu The improvement of agricultural education will receive priority when the Association of Principals of Agricultural Colleges (Apac) an organisation representing all the agricultural colleges in this country meet with their counterparts in an international conference at the Kruger National Park next month. According to Allison van Niekerk, chairperson of Apac, the conference will […]

Glenda Daniels Half-a-million public service workers cast strike ballots this week in a wage dispute that masks the real tensions between labour and the state. “The wage issue is not the fundamental one here. The issues are really about human development, restructuring and retraining of staff,” says Vusi Nhlapo, president of the National Education, Health […]

Hellenic, usually very consistent, have started the season on the wrong foot Ntuthuko Maphumulo What have Hellenic done to anger the gods? That’s the question coach Steve Haupt is asking himself after a number of defeats at the beginning of the season. The Cape Town-based side, known as the “Greek gods”, are languishing near the […]

Members of the party have been accused of irregularly allocating council houses to family members Barry Streek Two new corruption scandals have rocked the Democratic Alliance in Cape Town this week, as the party battles to control the damage caused by the street renaming saga. Affidavits have surfaced alleging that a DA councillor was involved […]

REVIEW David Shapshak LG DVD 3251P The only problematic thing about owning an MP3s collection is that you can only play them on your computer. The highly popular music file format, which reduces an average song to a 10th its size, has taken the world by storm but playing them is very limited outside of […]

Michael Hartnack in Harare President Robert Mugabe hopes this week to pull off his second great diplomatic coup of the 18-month Zimbabwean crisis: getting his neighbours to accept it stems from white ownership of prime farmland rather than from his own efforts to cling to power. President Thabo Mbeki will be among the presidents of […]

Thuli Nhlapo The families of two police officers who disappeared in 1985 believe the South African Police Service (SAPS) discriminates against black members of the force. Meshack Baloyi of Johannesburg and Nomsingiselo Maki of Stutterheim have abandoned an expensive, four-year battle for benefits from the SAPS. Freddy Baloyi and Nosisi Maki, who infiltrated the African […]

It’s seldom that a maiden plate makes for one of the big attractions on the card, but the first race at Turffontein on Saturday could be an exception. While all seasoned racegoers have at one time or another been subjected to rumours of unbeatable first-timers, the pedigree of David Ferraris’s Martinelli should make even the […]

Tara Palmer-Tomkinson is the latest celeb to get a “Brazilian most women wince at the idea BODY LANGUAGE Laura Barton Cross your legs, ladies, this may sting a little. On a scale of one to childbirth, waxing your nether regions is a minor blip. But the curious point is that more and more women are […]

GOLF Bill Elliot When Mark James took Bernhard Langer aside in Munich two years ago to tell him that, no matter what, he was not going to be a captain’s pick for the 1999 Ryder Cup team, the German took it in typically flamboyant style. “Really,” he said, those hard eyes of his narrowing as […]