FRIDAY, 4.00PM AUDITOR-general Henri Kluever has called for a full-scale commission of enquiry to establish whether relatives or close friends of Housing Minister Sankie Mthembi-Mahanyele improperly benefited from the Motheo housing project in Mpumalanga. An inquiry is one of the recommendations contained in a report on the auditor-general’s special investigation into the project which is […]

doctors Mungo Soggot The Department of Health is locked in dispute with South Africas top academic medics over controversial plans to ban public health service doctors from doing private work The department has tabled its plan with the Public Service Bargaining Chamber and held its latest round of talks with medical profession representatives this week. […]

Companies have been quick to cash in on the demand for Princess Diana memorabilia, ranging from china to T-shirts, writes James T Madore Elvis Presley and Marilyn Monroe long have topped lists of departed celebrities with high sales of collectibles. But they will be eclipsed by Diana, the Princess of Wales, for at least the […]

Pat McDermott : Cricket South Africa faces the prospect of a Christmas and New Year with the national side away from home for the first time since our readmittance to the world game. It is a bleak prospect, fraught with the realities of television coverage from the sub-continent for the series against Pakistan and early-morning […]

Controversial MEC proves too much for one of her top officials, writes Andy Duffy The head of education in the North West province has quit his post in protest against alleged nepotism by the provincial education MEC, who handed out plum jobs to members of her family. Gulam-Husien Mayet quietly stepped down as provincial education […]

Gustav Thiel The Nederduitse Gerefor-meerde Kerk (NGK) , once again under pressure from its world body to repudiate apartheid, continues to find biblical justification for the separation of races. Although the NGK apologised in 1990 at its annual synod for as its moderator Doctor Freek Swanepoel puts it those who were hurt by apartheid and […]

Stephen Gray : Unspoilt places They first appear, like sentinels, on the dirt roads north of Calvinia in the Northern Cape. Then up over the salt pans, en route to the Orange River at Upington, there is the occasional specimen, linking the sky to the dry, dusty, arid landscape. Keep on the R27 surely South […]

the wild South Africas khoikhoi are not extinct, as popular belief would have it, but the languages that sustain them in a harsh existence are dying Eddie Koch and Siven Maslamoney On South Africas lonely frontier with Namibia, where the Orange River meanders through stony mountains and across the ochre sands of the Kalahari, live […]