Barry Streek A decade from now as many as 45 000 people in South African prisons could die every year from HIV/Aids and Aids-related diseases, according to the inspecting judge of prisons, Judge Hannes Fagan. He told a conference on crime and human rights at the University of Western Cape that five years ago 182 […]

Ria Ledwaba+s dream of top-flight soccer has come true as her team, Ria Stars, are in the premier league Merryman Kunene Being the youngest child and the only daughter in the Rasebotsa family, Ria Ivy Ledwaba+s formative years were heavily influenced by her soccer-mad brothers – who either played for or supported Pietersburg+s most famous […]

Brasse vannie Kaap+s new album, Yskoud, heads into sakkie-sakkie and hard rock territory. Adam Haupt spoke to them before their Oppikoppi and Belgium missions It+s an unusually warm winter+s day in Cape Town and I+m hanging out in a chicken joint with Brasse vannie Kaap+s (BVK) Fat and Ready D. The Brasse were a tad […]

The ever-popular Dingaan Thobela goes in search of a third world title next month Deon Potgieter Already a South African boxing legend, the -Rose of Soweto+, Dingaan Thobela, now stands on the verge of writing his name in the echelons of boxing history as an international legend. Thobela was all but written off by his […]

polarisation Jaspreet Kindra The Azanian PeopleOs Organisation (Azapo) this week sidled up to the African National Congress, moving South African politics a small step closer to racial polarisation. AzapoOs shift dropping socialist militancy in favour of calls for racial solidarity is but one symptom of a growing racialisation of the countryOs public life. Calls for […]

Peter Robinson cricket A few years ago Fanie de Villiers argued that South Africans don+t quit. In his more recent incarnation as a TV presenter, De Villiers says lots of things and not all of them make immediate sense, but at Sydney in 1994 he was able to explain in a few short words exactly […]

They+ve come through two by two – South African heavyweights trying to win the world title Gavin Evans When Lennox Lewis entered the ring to the sounds of Bob Marley+s We+re Gonna Chase Those Crazy Baldheads Out of Town, you couldn+t miss the message: no place for White Hopes in this hood. Francois Botha+s demise […]

Cameron Duodu Letter from the North OMan, I admire this Governor [Ahmed] Sani of Zamfara [State of Nigeria]. He just goes ahead and does his things without any noise-making preambles declares sharia, flies prostitutes to Mecca, cuts off someoneOs hand, summons 2 000 beggars, supplies 100 donkeys to supplement okadas [motor-bike taxis], promises to flog […]