Maris McCance-Price and Scott Smith French psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan said ”a world of words is a world of things”. Words are the building blocks of everything we do, but in the materialistic cellphone and Internet culture of the 21st century, the world of things often takes precedence over the appreciation of literature and poetry: the […]

Fred Esbend Five national and regional office-bearers of the South African National Civic Organisation (Sanco) have been implicated in an alleged plot to assassinate Eastern Cape African National Congress caucus chairperson, Elvis Bana. Although Sanco is an alliance partner of the ANC, there has been bitter rivalry between the two in the Eastern Cape, particularly […]

ANGOLAN Minister of Trade and Industry Joacquim Duarte da Costa David said on Thursday the government was confident of reaching an agreement with diamond giant De Beers over its operations in the country. De Beers halted prospecting and investments in Angola on May 24, saying it had reached an impasse with the government after more […]

MUNGO SOGGOT, Cape Town | Friday THE office of Peter Marais, the Democratic Alliance mayor of Cape Town, has been presiding over a vote-rigging exercise to have two prominent streets named after former presidents FW de Klerk and Nelson Mandela. Petitions purporting to give Capetonians a vote have been filled out with fraudulent signatures in […]

ANGOLANS will enjoy risk-free viewing of the solar eclipse of June 21 thanks to a government expenditure of three million dollars on protective glasses, the science and technology ministry said on Tuesday. The total eclipse, which will cross Angola along a 200km band, will last the longest – more than four and a half minutes […]

REBELS in Sierra Leone have released 150 children, among them 40 girls, from an eastern stronghold in Kailahun, the UN Children’s Fund Unicef announced on Tuesday. The children, aged eight to 18 years old, were freed on Monday and airlifted Tuesday to Daru, some 50km away where they were received by staff from the aid […]

EMSIE FERREIRA, Cape Town | Wednesday TWELVE sugar cane farms in eastern South Africa have been torched and about 1_000 black families are occupying portions of 63 sugar farms in a land dispute that has turned violent, a farmer said on Tuesday. Police and soldiers have been on the farms since last week to protect […]

KIGALI | Thursday RWANDAN Hutu rebels have suffered major losses in the bloodiest outbreak of fighting the country has seen for years, losing 150 men in a clash with government troops, according to the army. The Rwandan army said it had killed at least 150 Hutu extremist rebels on Wednesday as they tried to enter […]

HARARE | Thursday CHENJERAI Hitler Hunzvi, the militant leader of Zimbabwe’s liberation war veterans who died on Monday, has been declared a national hero by the ruling party. The staunch ally of President Robert Mugabe will be buried on Friday at the North Korean-built Heroes’ Acre, a shrine traditionally reserved for prominent members of the […]