Wonder Hlongwa African National Congress national chairman Jacob Zuma has been involved in intense lobbying to get Zulu King Goodwill Zwelithini and Inkatha Freedom Party president Mangosuthu Buthelezi to patch up their family quarrel and appear on the same platform at the symbolically important Shaka Day celebrations. Zuma said he had been acting as a […]

Madeleine Wackernagel : Taking Stock The international financial magazine Euromoney this week voted Trevor Manuel best African finance minister, citing Gear as an example of Manuels innovative style and his ability to push his plans through government. But as the delegates at last weeks Cosatu congress made only too clear, not everybody is as enamoured […]

Robert Kirby: Loose cannon I spent a most enlightening two hours last week phoning up a few of the leading restaurants in the charismatic Boland. I was phoning around because some generous friends from up north had invited my wife and I out to have dinner in one of the areas famous gastronomic establishments, particularly […]

The witness protection programme offers protection to individuals, but not their families, writes Mungo Soggot Key witnesses to the killings which have ravaged the KwaZulu-Natal Midlands town of Richmond have refused to join the witness protection programme. The witnesses are either anxious to protect their families for whom the scheme does not cater or are […]

Globalisation has all the appeal of an express train with no driver in the cab, argues Larry Elliot In many ways, DH Lawrence was the prototype green. The constant theme of his novels was the way in which the hard, mechanistic world of the industrial West was sucking the life out of mankind. This scene […]

Bill Elliott : Golf While the battlefield for the thirty-second Ryder Cup, Valderrama, is the corner of some foreign field for the first time in the great matchs history, it is the generals who are about to sit high on its hills who encourage the greater interest as we contemplate what surely should turn out […]

Steve Morris : Rugby The institution of the long-awaited judicial commission under Johannesburg advocate Jules Browde into the the way rugby is run in this country has had one effect that, with no disrespect to the commissioner, was probably never taken into account. The tight battle for Currie Cup honours, the speculation which has gone […]

FRIDAY, 12.30PM: THE Mpumalanga Pumas rugby selectors have made four changes to the side that lost 29-30 to South-Western Districts over the weekend, to play the Gauteng Falcons in a Bankfin Currie Cup match in Brakpan on Friday night. Dan van Zyl, who usually plays at scrumhalf, takes over at flyhalf in place of Eben […]

Suzy Bell : In your ear I have to admit that the womens programmes on Radio Lotus presented by the soothing Asha Maharaj, almost saw me zombie-like off to the supermarket buying baking equipment. I even considered star- shaped biscuit cutters after a genteel man phoned in and read, rather hypnotically, a recipe for peppermint […]