Wally Mbhele The self-confessed perpetrator of the Eikenhof massacre, Phila Dolo, this week spoke out for the first time about his involvement in the shootings, accusing the police of knowing for a long time that he was responsible but deliberately putting the wrong people in jail. Dolo claims that the former commander of the Brixton […]

Barry Streek A high-powered gender unit, with an annual budget of R6-million, has been established in the Department of Communications to promote gender equity both in the department and the parastatals it is responsible for, such as the Post Office, Telkom and Satra. The approach has been mainstream gender planning, the head of the department’s […]

A pilot project in the North-West province has shown that peer educators can be more successful than adults when it comes to teaching youngsters sex education, writes Jacqui Pile While the new policy on HIV/Aids for schools is being lauded for its practical infection control procedures and its focus on the non-discrimination of HIV-positive learners […]

Duncan Campbell There are some simple things you can do to guard your privacy online. These include: l Avoid Web-based e-mail services. They use standard browsers such as Internet Explorer and Netscape. For new users, they can seem an easier start, but they are easier to break into. For better security, select an ordinary service […]

Barry Streek Steps are being taken to transform the old post office savings accounts into a fully- fledged bank, mainly for the lower-income and rural groups. The Cabinet has already approved a three- phased process to establish PostBank, which in the first phase is to have greater autonomy within the post office and have separate […]

There’s more to art competitions than giving the winner a cheque for a one-off work, writes Brenda Atkinson This year’s FNB Vita Art Prize event was afflicted by a terrible politeness that not even Steven Cohen’s Miss FNB Vita sash and alarmingly assertive eyelashes could alleviate. Everybody cheered when Jo Ractliffe went up to receive […]

It took six years for a community in Warmbaths to build up their own technical school; it took the stroke of a bureaucrat’s pen to close it down. Evidence wa ka Ngobeni reports While the government constantly enjoins parents and communities to get involved in efforts to improve their children’s education, a Warmbaths community did, […]

CD of the week David Bennun What, you might reasonably be entitled to ask, has the mad little bugger done this time? If the idea of the new Tricky album, Juxtapose (Island), doesn’t fill you with the same eager anticipation that it once might have, you’re not alone. Even those of us who consider him […]

Andy Capostagno Rugby To say it has been a strange Currie Cup this year would be like saying Daffy Duck is mildly obtuse. Put yourself in the position of coach of one of the major provinces. You don’t know from week to week which of your best players will be available due to the vagaries […]

Ever since Bonfire of the Vanities we have been waiting for the next Great American Novel. Has Kurt Andersen written it? Michael Ellison meets the author One of the persistent quibbles about Kurt Andersen’s first novel – the book du jour of Manhattan and an essential modern primer on money, the media and technology – […]