Andy Capostagno rugby It might not have occurred to anyone in a position of power in South African rugby, but Conrad Jantjes has just had his life rearranged. The Lions utility back, with Blue Bulls wing Rayno Hendricks, is at the centre of the row over quota manipulations. Jantjes is one of those rare talents […]

Peter Dickson On the seventh day he rose from the dead, slipped on some shades and went to collect his life policy. It was an inspired move in the desperate north-eastern Cape town of Venterstad, but not enough for another miracle in the Queenstown Regional Court last week. Former Venterstad mayor Siphiwo Nqayi, who faked […]

AFP, Harare | Friday FOUR opposition officials have been arrested after police in Zimbabwe raided three offices of the main opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) in search of weapons. One of several lawyers representing the MDC, Brian Kagoro said “they (the police) have arrested and detained” four officials after the early morning raid found […]

HIGH Commissioner to the United Kingdom, Cheryl Carolus, has emerged as the African National Congress’s most favoured choice for mayor of Cape Town in the forthcoming local government elections, Business Day newspaper reports. An unnamed departmental official said he was aware of moves to end Cape-born Carolus’s tenure in London 18 months early so she […]

Rupert Neethling With the arrival of Windows Millennium, home users are asking themselves whether they should shell out yet another couple of hundred rand for an upgrade. However, if you’re among those who would rather see how long they can keep on going with what they’ve got, you may be pleased to hear that with […]

Conservative whites lack the cohesive political leadership that is necessary to lead them beyond the laager of exclusion Charles Villa-Vicencio ‘Every time a white person speaks in this conference, another white stands up and says he or she is not speaking for me.” An observation made at the recent racism conference in Sandton. At Stellenbosch […]

Ted Leggett a second look Minister of Safety and Security Steve Tshwete has blamed the Islamic group People against Gangsterism and Drugs (Pagad) for the long string of bombings that has plagued Cape Town. “I am absolutely convinced it is Pagad,” he has said, alleging that the attacks are part of an ideological campaign to […]

The former Bafana coach dealt South Africa’s Under-23s a blow at the Olympics Grant Shimmin in Sydney There could have been few happier men than Japanese coach Philippe Troussier at Canberra’s Bruce Stadium when the final whistle blew at the end of South Africa’s opening match in the Olympic football tournament last night. The delight […]

For most of his political life Richard Nixon was prey to drink, prescription drugs and fits of rage. Talking to Nixon’s psychotherapist and key figures in his administration, Anthony Summers and Robbyn Swan piece together the events that culminated, astonishingly, in the president being asleep and incapable when his country went on nuclear alert against […]

I’m quite sure’ Scientists are divided over a theory that claims Aids was created by Western virologists developing polio vaccines in Africa in the 1950s John Vidal and James Meek The Belgian Congo, 1959. The winds of change are sweeping through Africa. There are riots for self-determination in the capital, Stanleyville (now Kisangani, Congo), and […]