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 […]

THURSDAY, 11.00AM GOVERNMENT intends making a final decision on the process of privatising SA Airways next month, Public Enterprises Minister Stella Sigcau’s ofice said on Wednesday. Spokesman Wandile Zote said the interministerial cabinet committee will decide the issue on October 16. He added no decision has yet been made on the percentage stake for sale, […]

THURSDAY, 11.30AM SOUTH African telcommunications parastatal Telkom significantly strengthened its monopoly on regional telecoms with the signing earlier this week of a contract to build and operate one of 12 global satellite access nodes (SANs) for ICO Global Communications. Work has already begun on the SAN at Hartebeeshoek satellite tracking station west of Pretoria. The […]

US TROOPS IN MALAWI SIXTY US soldiers will on Friday begin training Malawi’s 800 army officers for peacekeeping operations, the American embassy said on Thursday. Led by Major Brian Stackhouse, the Americans arrived on Wednesday as part of the US-sponsored African Crisis Response Initiative (ACRI). The Americans are training troops from several African countries with […]