Manchester United midfielder Quinton Fortune is coming good at just the right time Neal Collins Quinton Fortune’s name is finally going up in lights in England, nearly 10 years after his arrival at Heathrow. On Tuesday night at Old Trafford the 23-year-old from Cape Town finally proved beyond doubt that he has the quality to […]

A farmer has pitted himself against his colleagues in supporting the government’s proposed arms control legislation Lynda Gilfillan Karoo farmer Ken Southey looks anything but the dissident. Yet his appearance at public hearings in Parliament last month on the proposed Firearms Control Bill has placed him firmly on the opposite side from most of his […]

David Beresford Another Country I have spent the past couple of weeks hesitating over what to do about Footnote 29. The footnote that has been causing this agony of indecision is contained in the report of the Human Rights Commission (HRC) on the media that, as everyone knows, found the industry to be a hotbed […]

One of the most striking developments around the race row over the past week was the intervention of the Group of 63, a wide range of Afrikaners from conservatives to anti-apartheid figures such as Breyten Beytenbach, concerned by the defeatist attitude by some of the old Afrikaner establishment on the language and cultural issue. It […]

Ivor Powell An independent audit into the alleged misuse and possible misappropriation of R300-million earmarked for retraining ex- combatants has been forwarded to the Office of the Auditor General for further investigation. KPMG’s audit into the South African National Defence Force’s (SANDF) service corps was commissioned by Deputy Minister of Defence Nozizwe Madlala-Routledge earlier this […]

Alex Sudheim Never before in human history has a virus bonded so dramatically with creative initiative. Since the scourge of HIV/Aids raised its lethal head over a decade ago, its insidious reach has been fought every step of the way in song, dance, drama, film, art and literature. Providing physical meaning to the term “public […]

Grant Shimmin If you asked most top sportsmen how they spend the morning leading up to their event, they’d say doing as little as possible – which seems like the sensible course of action. But it won’t necessarily be an option for four of South Africa’s finest oarsmen as they get ready to go flat […]

Tennis authorities are looking at ways of improving the game Jon Henderson How’s this for a scoreline: Tim Henman beat Fernando Vicente 4-2 5-3 5-4? It may look a little cock-eyed, but it is the score by which Henman would have defeated the Spaniard in the first round of the United States Open – rather […]

REUTERS, Washington | Friday THE International Monetary Fund approved a $11.6m payment to Uganda after completing a review of the African nation’s poverty reduction strategy and other economic reform plans. After a meeting of its executive board, the IMF welcomed Uganda’s efforts to stem a decline in trade and deal with costs arising from bank […]

Jaspreet Kindra A remarkable feature of politics and reportage on it in South Africa is that it is dominated by two elitists – President Thabo Mbeki and the leader of the opposition, Tony Leon. Since most South Africans are poor, one would expect any self-respecting, or clever, politician to make poverty a central strategy. Instead, […]