Barney Spender : Rugby As in all sports and, indeed , in life itself, a hearty welcome is often accompanied by a fond farewell. So it is on Saturday when the Springboks will attempt, for the second successive year, to win a Test series in France by a 2-0 margin. Something which will prove a […]

Gustav Thiel A strong lobby of lecturers and students at the University of Stellenbosch is calling for the head of rector Professor Andreas van Wyk, who they accuse of being autocratic and defeating efforts to transform the university. Van Wyk, who has been embroiled in a number of controversies since taking charge of the university […]

Science clashes with tradition over the corpse of an ancient princess. James Meek reports from Novosibirsk The princess lies in a glass casket on the West Siberian plain alongside her kinsman. She is naked save for a scrap of gauze draped across the top of her legs. Tattooed beasts – part griffin, part deer, part […]

FRIDAY, 3:00PM: THE Aids Law Project at the University of Witwatersrand (ALP) says it has been approached by patients who received supplies of the banned Aids drug Virodene from a Pretoria doctor. In a press conference called to explain Thursday’s police raid on the team who created the controversial drug (see below), law project attorney […]

An all-consuming family man Stefaans Brmmer When Indonesians celebrated 40 years of freedom from Dutch colonial rule in 1985, the independence day parade was led by a float depicting President Suharto driving the tractor of his country’s economic progress. Thousands of school children sang a specially composed hymn to the “Father of Development”, an official […]

Swapna Prabhakaran and Bongani Siqoko Hawkers in Johannesburg have added Pakistanis, Indians and Chinese people to their list of foreigners whose businesses should be boycotted and who should be expelled from South Africa. More than 500 local hawkers gathered at the Library Gardens for yet another rally calling for a boycott of goods sold by […]

THURSDAY, 11.00AM: The emigration tide seems to have turned, according to latest Central Statistical Service fgures. Immigration and emigration figures released on Wednesday show that less people are leaving, and more people are entering the country. The figures show a 24% decline in the number of self-declared emigrants from South Africa during July 1997 compared […]

FRIDAY, 9.10AM: FREE STATE’S Peet Kleynhans will coach the Golden Cats regional team in next year’s Super 12 rugby series. Kleynhans was appointed by the four unions which make up the Golden Cats — Gauteng, Free State, Griqualand West and Northern Free State — on Thursday. It was expected that Gauteng Lions Dawie Snyman will […]

Steve Morris : Rugby There is a distinct feeling abroad that South African rugby, while it has moved up a step on the international level, is suffering from stress fractures at home. It is amazing that the only coach the Blue Bulls could settle on was Eugene van Wyk, a man they had already rejected […]

Advertisers need to stay in touch with the trends of the young, writes Maria McCloy Friday night in Jo’burg and young black people are either at Rocky Street and Hillbrow or the flavour-of-the-moment joints in the city’s swisher northern suburbs. Kwaito, R&B and hip-hop music pumps from speakers as local artists Trompies, Arthur and Bongo […]