South Africa talks about reconciliation,=20 but Rwanda wants its political criminals=20 behind bars. David Goodman reports WHILE the Truth and Reconciliation=20 Commission busies itself with doling out=20 amnesty to apartheid killers, justice=20 officials at another end of Africa are=20 pursuing a decidedly different approach to=20 settling old scores. Rwandan officials=20 visiting South Africa this week […]

Amid continuing controversy, abortion this=20 week becomes legal, but many units will be=20 unable to offer the service. Jim Day=20 reports=20 MANY provincial health departments have=20 been caught ill-prepared for the=20 introduction this week of legalised=20 abortion.=20 The new Choice on Termination of Pregnancy=20 Law comes into force on Saturday, and the=20 health ministry on […]

Peter Vale IT was never possible that South Africa’s=20 foreign policy would be a glorious success;=20 that we would ride into the setting sun of=20 the 20th Century – national dreams=20 fulfilled, collective destiny guaranteed,=20 all insecurities stilled. But we had a right to expect that the=20 discussion on South Africa’s place in the=20 world […]

Jim Day LESS than five years after the founding of an independent press in Mozambique, two of the nation’s top independent editors remain confident that the country’s press will remain vibrant. In a society dominated by government newspapers including the daily Noticias and a Sunday paper called Domingo, both these editors have successfully found a […]

Andy Duffy WITS University is to restart the long and arduous search for a vice-chancellor, following the eleventh hour rejection by its chosen candidate, Sam Nolutshungu. The university’s council met on Thursday to discuss options to fill the gap Nolutshungu left, but campus sources insist there really is only one: to advertise for new applicants, […]

Glynis O’Hara on Abo Babes THREE small, young and shy little women troop into the lounge, throw themselves down on the couch and gaze expectantly at you, volunteering nothing. Well, that’s what happens when you’re 14 and 15, as Mammi Vilankulu and Khumo Mokae are … you defer to the grown-ups. Jeanette Mokhela, though, is […]

The officer handling a rape case on Robben Island this week was himself accused of rape six years ago, report Rehana Rossouw and Gustav Thiel The police officer investigating the rape on Robben Island of political activist Nomboniso Gasa this week was himself accused of rape six years ago. Captain Kevin Jones was tried in […]

ATHLETICS: Julian Drew MANY of South Africa’s best middle distance athletes will not be in East London on Saturday when the trials for the world cross country championships take place. Three of South Africa’s four world class women have decided the March world championships in Turin do not feature in their plans for 1997, while […]

Chris McGreal in Kigali THE Zairean government this week finally ordered its much-threatened counter- offensive against Rwandan-backed rebels who have seized swathes of territory in the east. But despite claiming it has Libyan support, there is little evidence that Zaire’s battered and ill-disciplined army is any more able to carry out the directive from the […]