Gilbert Grandguillaume, an anthropologist and expert on Arab issues, discusses the recent massacres in Algeria with Jean- Pierre Tuquoi Are the reasons for the mounting violence in Algeria to be found in the countrys recent history? There is a historical link, but it has nothing to do with a culturalist approach that sees Algerians primarily […]

Sechaba kaNkosi The battle for the top positions in the Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) began in earnest this week when nominations were made public. A list released by Cosatu shows that despite some dissatisfaction with some members of the executive, they are all likely to be re-elected by the 2 400 delegates […]

FOREIGN AFFAIRS STALWART QUITS FOREIGN affairs director-general Rusty Evans will vacate his post by the end of the year after a 35-year career in the department, Deputy Foreign Affairs Minister Aziz Pahad said on Friday. “Since the elections, Rusty has played a key role in helping us to transform our department and trying to ensure […]

Nkosinathi Biko has marked the 20th anniversary of his fathers death with a TV documentary. Andrew Worsdale reports Twenty years ago, when Steve Bantu Biko died at the hands of security police in Port Elizabeth, his son Nkosinathi was six years old. He says hell never forget the moment he learnt of his fathers death. […]

Tourists are flocking to the Bolivian countryside where the charismatic revolutionary died. Anthony Faiola reports See the very place where legendary guerrilla Ernesto Che Guevara lived and died! Trudge through the mud-covered hillside he himself once climbed! Talk to the peasants who fed and clothed him and his hapless band of communists! And dont miss […]

Mama has been exiled to the Transkei, but one night she wakes and exclaims, Hes dead! She means the Old President, and this is her chance to seize power. Astory by Achmat Dangor, from his new book Mama had them shot in the afternoon. They were lined up facing westwards, so that the only blindfold […]

FRIDAY, 4.00PM THE Southern African Development Community will hold a summit in Angola on September 30 to formulate a regional approach to possible United Nations sanctions against Jonas Savimbi’s Unita rebel movement, Deputy Foreign Affairs Minister Aziz Pahad said on Friday. The UN has threatened to impose far-reaching sanctions against Unita by the end of […]

Sechaba kaNkosi National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) heavyweights met their counterparts in the African National Congress this week to discuss the nomination of their general secretary, Kgalema Motlanthe, for the post of ANC secretary general, the most powerful political position in the country outside Parliament. Until now, most political and labour analysts have viewed Motlanthe […]