THE two-year-old son of Public Services Minister Zola Skweyiya has been killed after being run down by a car in the driveway of the family’s Pretoria home. Fikile Skweyiya-Mazibuko, whose mother, Thuthu Mazibuko, is ambassador-designate to Paris, died in hospital on Thursday night after sustaining serious head injuries, The Star newspaper reported on Friday. There […]

CD of the week Keith Henderson Mexican-American/Cuban hip-hop gurus Cypress Hill continue their onslaught on the free world with Cypress Hill IV (Sony). Make no mistake, it’s hard and it’s heavy – a place that you take yourself voluntarily . There is no lift music on this little number, as you’d expect from a band […]

The transformation of the SABC’s controversial R200-million commissioning process hangs in the balance once again, writes Ferial Haffajee The SABC’s programming manager, Mandla Langa, is likely to quit the corporation. If he leaves, Langa will be the third broadcasting executive whose attempts to clean up the corruption in commissioning procedures have been frustrated. Commissioning is […]

THE government has decided to destroy all surplus small arms rather than sell them. This was announced today by the chair of the National Conventional Arms Control Committee, Kader Asmal. The decision follows a meeting of the committee, at which government ministers expressed concern about the proliferation of small arms in Southern Africa.

MPUMALANGA police recovered on Thursday the head of a man who was apparently eaten by a crocodile in the Olifants River near Marble Hall. The head was identified as that of Wilson Milanzi (76) who went missing on Sunday after going for a swim in the river. Captain Blackie Swart said Milanzi’s family thought he […]

Raekha Prasad Body Language It is accepted practice when gathering honey to dodge the sting of the bee. So, too, women have chosen to take the seminal fluid and ditch the man. For a woman wanting a child who isn’t looking for or can’t find father material, variations on the turkey baster and one-night stand […]

The late, great Peter Tosh would have approved of the gig in the hall that carries his name in Khayelitsha, writes Steve Rothfuchs The steady thud of reggae was the only thing that penetrated the pungent, wafting cirrus of ganja fumes. Even the 200 or so people – sweaty, stoned and bopping – seemed to […]

JOHANNESBURG’S Miami Boxing Promotions confirmed on Thursday their plan to buy unit trusts for all boxers appearing on their bills, starting with their show on March 3. Matchmaker Jeff Ellis, staging his 28th development tournament, said the firm would purchase trusts for a minimum of R50 or 5% of a fighter’s purse — whichever was […]

Gavin Evans Boxing As Philip Holiday has discovered over the last year and a half, boxing is a game defined by paradox. How is it, he has been asking, that he has vanished into the pugilistic ether, whereas Ivan Robinson, a boxer he soundly outpointed, is fted as one of the major names in the […]

For as long as Europeans have subjected Africa to colonial interests, the dark continent has been a lumbering obstacle to their narratives of progress. In the process, it has of course also been a site for the projections, fantasies and ideological violations of those who managed to land on its recalcitrant shores. Colonial representations of […]