Hawkers who recently moved to the Rockey Street Market complain that the rental is too high, writes Jubie Matlou It’s a rare sight in South Africa to spot a white hawker selling his wares side by side with a black woman grilling mielies on a brazier. Andy McKay is one of the few white hawkers […]

Pat Schwartz RIVONIA’S CHILDREN: THREE FAMILIES AND THE PRICE OF FREEDOM IN SOUTH AFRICA by Glenn Frankel (Jonathan Ball) The 10 years since the unbanning of the African National Congress and the South African Communist Party (SACP) have brought with them a plethora of biography, autobiography and memoir evoking the hidden history of “the struggle”. […]

‘I don’t care too much for money, money can’t buy me love” … except on St Valentine’s Day of course. Valentine’s Day has never been especially important in my household but it’s always been a good excuse for my son to gorge himself on chocolate. It will be a washout this year as well since […]

Belinda Beresford It came from the north-east, the killer storm, following the Limpopo River, to deliver its fury on South Africa. An immature tropical cyclone is the way climatologists describe it – the phenomenon behind the deluge of rain which has washed over the subcontinent this week. The storm – which just missed being accorded […]

The rise of regional forces has Nigeria thinking the unthinkable. Chris McGreal reports from Lagos The end of military rule nine months ago has unleashed a store of bitter resentments in Nigeria that have fuelled ethnic massacres, the rise of militant regional organisations and a rush to introduce sharia law in the Islamic north over […]

Neil Manthorp Cricket Will out-of-form Hansie Cronje drop himself for tomorrow’s final of the Standard Bank triangular series? The answer, of course, is no. The captain might be struggling badly with the bat but he will as surely lead his team out at the Wanderers on Saturday as the sun will come up. Mind you, […]

Ivor Powell and Heather Hogan It is all systems go for apocalypse now according to the Seventh Day Adventist Church as it surveys the devastation of upcountry floods and, before them, the coastal fires that ravaged South Africa. “There is great truth in these things. We are living in prophetic times,” church representative Eddie Harris […]

The biennial African Cup of Nations has brought some highlights – but also given England’s World Cup bid some ammunition to use against us, reports Andrew Muchineripi As Bafana Bafana, Cameroon, Nigeria and Tunisia prepare to battle for gold, silver and bronze this weekend, an African Cup of Nations that has produced good, bad and […]

Evidence wa ka Ngobeni South Africa’s oldest leper colony is to be turned into a top tourism attraction in Gauteng, with lavish five star hotels, nature parks, and an up-market shopping mall. Last year the Gauteng Department of Health said the 125-year-old hospital, West Fort, was outdated and should be sold off to the private […]

Former president Nelson Mandela will mark the 10th anniversary on Friday of his release from 27 years in apartheid jails by opening a museum.