Amid new allegations from air force officers, the defence force responds to reports on racism, writes Rehana Rossouw SOUTH Africa’s black top guns have blasted their commanders, claiming the air force is as racist as the army. Last week, a report in the Mail & Guardian highlighted problems in the integration of the South African […]

Mark Philippoussis Australia Age: 20 World ranking: 29 The right-hander from Melbourne is rated by Boris Becker as the most likely big star of the future – “because he has a few assets the other up-and-coming youngsters do not have. I’m talking about his first serve and his pure strength.” Beat Pete Sampras 6-4, 7-6, […]

Marion Edmunds President Nelson Mandela last year considered sending Dr Ivy Matsepe-Casaburri to Burundi as a special envoy, to dispense advice and represent South Africa in the Great Lakes crisis. Instead, he sent her to a trouble-spot nearer home – to the Free State as premier, to pour oil on the troubled waters there. Matsepe-Casaburri […]

CINEMA: Derek Malcolm Peter Greenaway has never made a less than accomplished film, but nor is he ever likely to make one that’s fully comprehensible at first sight, which is a bit of problem for your average film-goer. The Pillow Book, however, is a distinct advance on his last, The Baby Of Macon, since its […]

Benjamin Pogrund The Anglo-Zulu War: The War Correspondents by John Laband and Ian Knight (Jonathan Ball, R89,99) During the war in Vietnam an American reporter found himself stranded in a forward position with a platoon of US soldiers. As night came the officer in charge ordered his men to dig foxholes: an attack was expected. […]

THEATRE: Donna Marshall Watching Brett Bailey’s Zombie in the middle of Nyanga was not nearly as esoteric an experience as might have been expected. The venue, which turned out to be little more than a stark community hall, was integral to the experience of the performance, as was watching the audience’s response. The play centres […]

Ruaridh Nicoll follows Princess Di on her tour to meet Angola’s victims of war as part of a Red Cross campaign to ban landmines internationally THE Red Cross convoy passed shanty dwellings and huge piles of evil-smelling rubbish to bring Diana, Princess of Wales, to her second stop on the second of her four days […]

accused Stuart Hess THE president of the South African Stop Child Abuse (Sasca) organisation, Tutu Mgulwa, will remain its head despite facing charges of rape. Colleagues at the privately funded Sasca, as well as other anti-child abuse campaigners who have worked with Mgulwa, have offered their support, saying the charges were unfounded. They believe Mgulwa’s […]

Angella Johnson HUMAN rights groups have criticised Minister of Justice Dullah Omar and Gauteng’s Safety and Security MEC Jessie Duarte, for their ”knee-jerk” reaction to the public outcry after bail was given to 18-year-old Anwah Philander. Both politicians had objected to the granting of bail to the younger brother of entertainer Soli Philander in connection […]

Marion Edmunds A 67-year old protest poet intends suing the Minister of Safety and Security for the loss of a lithogram and a bundle of notes, confiscated from him by the police in a raid on his house in 1986. James Matthews, an award-winning poet and author who spent most of his life fighting apartheid, […]