Sechaba ka’Nkosi The African National Congress leadership meets this weekend to finalise the political future of candidates heading its election nomination list. With the party upbeat about the possibility of netting more than 60% of the vote in the general election, the crucial three-day meeting has drawn much interest because it has to decide who […]

Alex Bellos, in Santos, reports on the joyous return of a modest footballing legend to his roots The world of football may have changed unrecognisably since the 1950s, but Pele still looks the same. His short Afro has hardly receded, keeping the unmistakable shape of when he was a young player. He is fit and […]

Chiara Carter Veteran New National Party politician Peter Marais is talking to senior African National Congress leaders about his future in their party. Marais is one of a group of the NNP’s most senior Western Cape politicians who are considering jumping ship for the ANC. Marais’s office declined to comment, but according to ANC sources […]

THE Swedish government has pledged R450-million to South Africa over the next three years in the form of a development co-operation agreement. Signed by Swedish Foreign Minister Anna Lindh and South Africa’s Deputy Foreign Affairs Minister Aziz Pahad in Cape Town on Friday, the agreement aims to fund education, housing, arts and culture and urban […]

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found Benoni Charles Leonard `This is it! This is the site!” South Africans Roddy Quinn and Dan Chirboli looked at each other. “He must be mad,” Chirboli said to Quinn over the noise of the helicopter. “It’s just mine dumps … and it’s Benoni!” But Womad’s United Kingdom-based artistic director Thomas Brooman was convinced. Two […]

Cameron Duodu:LETTER FROM THE NORTH Zimbabwe’s success as a nation means a lot to me, for I have invested a great deal of emotional capital in the country. I am one of the few non-Zimbabweans who can say I knew the late Herbert Chitepo personally; I knew the late Josiah Tongogara personally; I know … […]

SHARES in the Liberty Life group tumbled for the second consecutive day on Thursday after initial enthusiasm on closer ties with Standard Bank cooled. Standard Bank Investment Corporation (Stanbic) announced a R5,6-billion tie-up with assurance giant Liberty Life earlier this week, taking the first step towards forging a new financial services giant. “There was an […]

Suzanne Glass Body Language They sang arias together. They shared their mutual passion for the theatrical at the Centenary Operatic and Dramatic Society and became the best of friends. But the dramatics carried on off-stage when Jenny Cupit began an affair with Kathryn Linaker’s husband, then bought a Kitchen Devil knife and bludgeoned her “best […]