Anthony Egan ANATOMY OF A MIRACLE: THE END OF APARTHEID AND THE BIRTH OF THE NEW SOUTH AFRICA by Patti Waldmeir (WW Norton, R134,95) SING THE BELOVED COUNTRY: THE STRUGGLE FOR THE NEW SOUTH AFRICA by Peter Hain (Plutos, R98) ALL SIDES OF THE STORY: A GRANDSTAND VIEW OF SOUTH AFRICA’S POLITICAL TRANSITION by Kaizer […]

As the Mpumalanga housing scandal escalated this week a picture emerged of a profitable schemefor its developers. Justin Arenstein, Stefaans Brmmer and Mungo Soggot report MPUMALANGA’s controversial rural housing scheme hands the developer a profit mark-up that exceeds the gains typical of low-cost housing deals. A consultant to Motheo Construction – the company set up […]

Physicists claim to have invented a meltdown-free nuclear reactor that burns radioactive waste, writes Robin McKie in Geneva SCIENTISTS have designed a nuclear reactor that they say can “burn” atomic waste. The breakthrough could solve the world’s nuclear waste crisis and save the beleaguered atomic energy industry. Experiments carried out for two years at Cern, […]

jobless’ man Anthony Kunda ZAMBIA’S President Frederick Chiluba may be a national of the newly named Democratic Republic of Congo, and as such ineligible to hold his position. Samples of Chiluba’s hair were secretly obtained and sent to laboratories in Johannesburg and London for DNA testing, according to The Post, the country’s only independent daily […]

GOOD NEWS FUEL prices will drop in South Africa on midnight on June 4; petrol will drop five cents inland and six cents at the coast, diesel will rise one cent in Gauteng, and paraffin will fall almost three cents. FREE STATE PROBES THE Free State provincial government appointed two commissions of inquiry on Friday, […]

Slower economic growth and a shift in consumer borrowing patterns point the way to a cut in interest rates in the second half of the year, reports Madeleine Wackernagel FIRST-QUARTER gross domestic product (GDP) figures, released this week, confirmed the anecdotal evidence provided by retail sales: growth is slowing down. This should soon feed through […]

FRIDAY, 9.00AM: THREE big matches have been scheduled for veteran South African heavyweight boxers over the next few weeks. Former WBA champion Gerrie Coetzee hits the comeback trail when he faces ex-WBC middleweight champion Iran “Oh No” Barkley in California on June 8. Johnnie Du Plooy will fight Benjamin Manyube in Durban on June 15. […]

Robin Blackburn CHE GUEVARA: A REVOLUTIONARY LIFE by John Lee Anderson (Bantam Press, R182,95) CHE GUEVARA helped Fidel Castro to topple Fulgencio Batista in 1959 and then masterminded Cuba’s break with the United States. These events established him as a revolutionary statesman of global reputation. With his subsequent renunciation of the fruits of power and […]

Nigel Crawhall EDDIE KOCH’S article last week on the demise of South African San languages (“Last voice of an ancient tongue”) has broken the silence on a national disgrace. With financial assistance from Denmark, the Southern African San Institute (Sasi) is supporting Khoi and San communities to develop strategies for language survival. The road to […]

England have triumphed in the one-day matches, but the Tests against the Australians are a more difficult proposition – especially with the thinking cricketer Steve Waugh in their ranks CRICKET:Paul Weaver STEVE and Mark Waugh are cricket’s unidentical twins. Together with Shane Warne, they are the stars of the formidable Australian party doing battle with […]