Jacquie Golding-Duffy THE SABC has axed a string of high-profile sports commentators just days before a huge sports programme relaunch, in favour of veteran presenter Martin Locke. Topsport general manager Edward Griffiths said this week eight presenters are to go. They include athletics presenter Elma Neethling, the first female to conquer the all-male domain of […]

by funding cuts Jim Day THE view from her back door is of acres and acres of corrugated steel roofs, weighted down by cement blocks and broken furniture. Thin columns of smoke rise from fires burning in steel drums. All around her, the streets are teeming with people, cars and a small herd of goats. […]

First it was abortion on demand and now it may be death, following the example set by Holland Gustav Thiel THE medical fraternity, still battling with its conscience over the recent advent of legalised abortion in South Africa, will soon have a new medical and ethical dilemma to confront, with the release of proposals to […]

churches While the Constitution promotes human rights, churches refuse to accept gays and lesbians into the South African clergy. Gustav Thiel reports THE religious fraternity is on a collision course with the Constitution over its continued ban on homosexuals. Constitutional and human rights law specialists say the Bill of Rights, formally adopted earlier this month, […]

As the Australian batting gets better in the run-up to the first Test, the need for more than one of South Africa’s specialist batsmen to make big scores increases CRICKET: Jon Swift THE Austalians will always be this country’s biggest rivals on the cricket field. There is, quite simply, no side the South Africans want […]

fences Caitlin Davies in Maun THE Botswana government looks set to introduce “wildlife-friendly fences” – that control the movement of one species while allowing others to roam free – in the Okavango Delta. Mary Kalikawe, a biologist for the Wildlife Training Institute based in Maun, produced a manual on such fences in 1995. She says […]

minutes Rehana Rossouw THE Free State African National Congress member who has launched a court challenge to the organisation’s decision to nominate Ivy Matsepe-Casaburri as premier for the province is still trying to unearth who made the original nomination. The ANC last year successfully challenged Edmund Qhali’s bid for urgent relief in the Free State […]

Allison Daniels in Hollywood ACCORDING to the credits, he edited the movie Fargo. His work was so impressive he has been nominated for an academy award. So who is this Hollywood hotshot Roderick Jaynes? Well, actually he does not exist. Roderick Jaynes, it has emerged, is a pseudonym for the film’s director and producer, Joel […]

Die Burger and Beeld appear to have shifted their support away from the NP, reflecting a wider rift in the Afrikaner community. Gustav Thiel and Jacquie Golding-Duffy report IT has long been a truism that no National Party leader has survived an attack by Die Burger. As the editorial onslaught against former president and NP […]

THE ANGELLA JOHNSON INTERVIEW YOU just cannot keep Peter Soller out of the headlines. The lawyer who made legal history when he successfully represented unmarried father Lawrie Fraser has been in the news again this week; this time facing criminal charges after Fraser’s child was kidnapped from his adoptive parents in Malawi. Some people in […]