Guy Willoughby describes putting together his new play about Olive Schreiner’s forgotten brother Will ‘The only duty we owe to history”, declared Oscar Wilde, “is to rewrite it.” Eighteen months ago, a National Arts Council grant in hand, I set out to do just that – or at least to refashion the historical record about […]

Four farm labourers claimed at the hearing that they were sacked for joining unions, unproven theft and protesting against being assaulted.

Cameron Duodu LETTER FROM THE NORTH If your electoral commission was like the one in my country, Ghana, which consistently ignores opposition demands on registration of voters, the reopening of electoral registers, and also rejects indeed any other request that the ruling party does not endorse, you would appreciate what President Robert Mugabe and his […]

Robyn Alexander THIRTEEN CENTS by K Sello Duiker (Ink Inc) SKYLINE by Patricia Schonstein Pinnock (David Philip) Each of these intriguing first novels opens so as to immediately absorb the reader into its first-person narrator’s world. K Sello Duiker’s Thirteen Cents begins with 12-year-old Azure’s introduction of himself – “Ah-zoo-ray. That’s how you say it.” […]

Thebe Mabanga The man who has been central to the process of compiling and selling the 2006 World Cup soccer bid is a publicity-shy divorcee who would rather get on with a behind-the-scenes role than become the operational face and voice of South Africa’s bid. Danny Jordan, the CEO of the country’s World Cup bid […]

Africa’s bid to host the World Cup for the first time is undermined by the Confederation of African Football’s refusal to choose either South Africa or Morocco as the better candidate Connie Selebogo, Nawaal Deane, Merryman Kunene, Thebe Mabanga and Jubie Matlou When the Federation of International Football Association gets to vote for the host […]

Belinda Beresford With Sanlam, the bastion of Afrikanerdom, and Metlife, the embodiment of black empowerment, set to disappear from South Africa’s financial markets, will the new joint venture mean the end or the beginning of black empowerment in South Africa? Sanlam and New Africa Investment Limited’s (Nail) life assurance subsidiary, Metropolitan Life (Metlife), are due […]

Online recruitment sites are prospering in South Africa, where the keen hunt for jobs is many locals’ top priority Rupert Neethling Surfing for a job? You are by no means alone. What’s more, online recruiters are eager to hear from you. Especially if you’re in information technology (IT). Indeed, the first thing a South African […]

penguins The number of polluted seabirds could skyrocket as oil leaking from the sunken Treasure spreads up the West Coast Marianne Merten Maritime and conservation officials are racing against time to contain the ecological disaster off the Cape coast as oil slicks have spread from Green Point, Cape Town, up the West Coast to Dassen […]

Steve Whiting CRICKET The “back from the brink” one-wicket win over England at Canterbury last Sunday gave South Africa’s women cricketers more than a glimmer of hope in a five-match series that seemed to be slipping into oblivion after they lost the first two – it also gave them a hope of being taken seriously […]