The illness is closely linked to the explosion of the Nigerian drug trade in South Africa Paul Kirk The Lonsdale hotel has seen better days. The air conditioners rarely function, the lights do not work, the swimming pool is empty and full of garbage, and rooms can be rented by the hour. Visitors are greeted […]

A 16-year-old boy from Soweto has been widely praised for his sketches of township life Greg Marinovich Nkululeko Jenetwa, like many teenage boys, has a fascination with cartoons. Instead of joining his friends playing soccer and whistling at girls on the streets of Mapetla, Soweto, he spends his time indoors, inventing a world of cartoons […]

Euan Ferguson TENNIS Let’s put our hands right up here at the beginning and admit it: grass can, at times, be a little boring. I don’t mean “grass” grass, dope grass, the stuff that just makes boring people more boring; though that’s certainly pretty boring. I mean real grass, the green stuff, cow food, the […]

The ‘countertrade’ component of South Africa’s weapons package is in danger of falling through Ivor Powell Promises by foreign companies and governments to organise substantial investments in the South African economy in exchange for weapons contracts are going sour – before the government’s controversial R32-billion arms deal is even finalised. Government sources defending the weapons […]

Barry Streek Craftswomen from the rural areas of KwaZulu-Natal will be exhibiting their products at this month’s international conference on Aids in Durban as a result of a unique project to promote HIV/Aids awareness through design. The Rural Craft and HIV/Aids Awareness project has been operating in KwaZulu- Natal, the region with the highest reported […]

Barry Streek Price Waterhouse Coopers has compiled a scathing report on labour relations in Parliament, painting a picture of an institution wracked by inefficiency and tension. The report says that instead of collaboration between the different divisions in Parliament, “there is at best an ad hoc application of human resources development funds that often create […]

to how the votes will fall Nawaal Deane Voting to decide the host of the 2006 soccer World Cup will take place in three rounds through a process of elimination, with the country receiving the fewest votes falling out of the bidding after each round. All executive members of the Federation of International Football Association […]

Howard Barrell and Barry Streek Will the Democratic Alliance (DA) make inroads into the black community? We might not. There is a degree of risk involved in this or any other such arrangement. There always is. It is a certainty that we were putting ourselves into a political glass ceiling by continuing this war between […]

Howard Barrell and Barry Streek How do you react to the perception that both parties are ganging up against blacks? That is nothing new. They have been saying that about us and about the DP [Democratic Party] for as long as I can remember. The problem with the ANC [African National Congress] is that they […]

EARLY results released on Friday of a referendum in Uganda revealed that most voters do not want a return to multi-party democracy but prefer the country’s existing system that sidelines political parties. Between 70% and 90% of votes in 20 constituencies where counts have been released by the election commission were in favour of President […]