Ebrahim Harvey CROSSFIRE The South African situation is no longer simply black and white. Since 1994 our situation has acquired a much more complex and dynamic character. Yet, unfortunately, a narrow, inward-looking, simplistic and unscientific approach manifested itself at last week’s South African Human Rights Commission (HRC) inquiry into racism in the media. As the […]

Sarah Bullen TAKING STOCK Any niggling doubts that global investors have actually gone bananas would have been fairly decisively cleared up by recent media footage from Hong Kong. The images showed hundreds and thousands of people queuing and jostling in lines that snaked around countless city blocks. The excited, bordering on belligerent, throngs were not […]

Stephen Gray ‘The rest camp at Witsand Nature Reserve was at last unveiled in October 1998 by the Northern Cape Premier, Manne Dipico, on behalf of the Diamantveld District Council under which it falls.” So reads an engraved stone at the office complex, in the shade of a camel-thorn tree of record girth. Obviously there […]

Barry Streek Two women workers on the historic Applethwaite apple farm in the Grabouw district have been reinstated in their jobs after being served with eviction notices following the dismissal of their husbands. Their victory, after the farm backed down, is a significant step in protecting the rights of women farm workers. Both their husbands, […]

BAFANA Bafana have slipped two spots in the world soccer rankings issued by Fifa on Wednesday. They fell from 21st spot to the 23rd, which they share with Chile. Both have 626 points. Brazil tops the ranking, followed by the Czech Republic, France, Spain and Germany. England are in the 11th spot.

GAUTENG crunched Eastern Province by six wickets in the first leg of their Standard Bank Cup semi-final match at St George’s Park, thanks mainly to the wiles of skipper Ken Rutherford. Batting first after winning the toss, Eastern Province racked up a total of 179/8 in the rain-hit match which saw the amount of overs […]

EIGHT people died and four are missing when a bridge across the swollen Kei river collapsed. One survivor has been plucked from the raging waters. A light truck with 10 people on board and a bus carrying only two or three people tired to cross a bridge about halfway between Queenstown and Cofimvaba when it […]

LAWRENCE BARTLETT, Harare | Friday 7.45pm. ZIMBABWE’S besieged white farmers won a court battle Friday over the occupation of their land by independence war veterans, despite President Robert Mugabe’s public approval of the invasions. High Court judge Paddington Garwe declared the occupations illegal and ordered the thousands of squatters who have invaded more than 500 […]

Thebe Mabanga The Windybrow Centre for the Arts in Hillbrow is currently hosting its Annual Arts Festival amidst threats of closure. Now celebrating its twentieth Anniversary, the festival could be the last if measures to rescue the Windybrow are not put in place urgently. “It would be a tragedy if we were to stand by […]