Protesting students have accused Njabulo Ndebele of being slow to implement changes on the campus, writes Tangeni Amupadhi THE same forces who proclaimed University of the North Vice-Chancellor Njabulo Ndebele champion of transformation in tertiary education, have turned against him. Ndebele – who lost out in the three-way competition for the top job at Wits […]

Africa SOCCER: Andrew Muchineripi OVERCONFIDENCE will probably be the biggest threat to South African representatives Orlando Pirates, Jomo Cosmos and Bush Bucks when they launch their African club competition campaigns. Pirates have been paired with Rovers of Lesotho in the Champions League, Cosmos tackle Eleven Men in Flight of Swaziland in the Cup-winners Cup and […]

Marion Edmunds ROELF MEYER set off into the political wilderness this week to seek a black Messiah to lead a new movement capable of challenging the African National Congress in 1999, and salvaging the moderate faction of a fragmenting National Party. Talent-spotting for a new black leader, Meyer told the Mail & Guardian this week, […]

Mungo Soggot COLLEAGUES of Professor Sam Nolutshungu, the United States-based academic who turned down the vice-chancellorship at Wits University, say he used the Wits offer to land himself a better job with his current employer. They also say Nolutshungu, who rejected the Wits post at the 11th hour for “health reasons”, is not ill and […]

Anthony Kunda in Lusaka FREEDOM of speech in Zambia suffered a severe blow with the imprisonment last week of Masautso Phiri, special projects editor of The Post, the country’s only independent daily, and the separate arrest of three journalists for The Chronicle, an independent weekly. Phiri was tried and sentenced by a full bench of […]

coach CRICKET:Paul Weaver WHEN viewed from a distance, with his chronically arthritic right knee and a hairline that is receding faster than the tide at Timaru beach, it is possible that he has become shrouded in middle age, that quite suddenly he has been mugged by Methuselah. It is only when one gets much closer, […]

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, […]