WINNNIE MANDELA will appear in the Witwatersrand Supreme Court today after yesterday’s postponement of her application for leave to appeal against the judgment in the diamonds from Angola, Foster Webb air charter case. The case was postponed because Modise Khoza, the advocate defending Mandela in this case, was in Durban. Mandela is applying for leave […]

There were good and bad performances from both sides in the first Test in Pretoria and only the weather showed consistent form CRICKET: Jon Swift IT IS HARD to formulate any real opinion of the current series against England when one side has not batted and the other not bowled. Even more so when those […]

SOCCER:Lungile Madywabe AS an international defender Ruud Krol played 83 games for Holland before going to Belgium and Switzerland where he coached Mechelen and Servette. He then went on to become coach of the Egyptian under-23 team and after the success of the youngsters at this year’s All Africa Games in Harare two months ago, […]

Rehana Rossouw PW BOTHA could face two years behind bars if he remains opposed to testifying before the Truth and Reconciliation Commission after it begins its work next year. His defiant refusal this week to “repent” before the commission could see him falling foul of the law. The Promotion of National Unity and Reconciliation Act […]

Are there any solutions to prevent sophisticated fraud syndicates plundering our credit card accounts? asks Karen Harverson CREDIT cards represent convenience to card holders, big business for banking institutions and increasingly, easy pickings for criminals. Credit card fraud, estimated at millions of dollars a year worldwide, has more than doubled in South Africa this year, […]

Luanda’s market grew from a rubbish tip to an open-air shopper’s mecca that offers a glimmer of hope for Angola, writes Phillip van Niekerk LUANDA’S market began on the edge of the city’s rubbish tip, in the shade of a baobab tree, in the late Seventies, as a blackmarket for United States dollars and scarce […]

Joe Slovo describes his relationship with Ruth First, in the second of our series of extracts from his unfinished autobiography WHILE studying for my LLB, I was employed in the offices of Jack Levitan, an attorney. Early in 1948 he sent me to assist advocate Fred Zwarenstein in the defence of the Lefela brothers in […]

Black is beautiful, but that doesn’t mean local black models are getting assignments, finds Hazel Friedman BLACK might be beautiful and local downright lekker, but in the ramp ‘n vamp world of modeldom, black is black, local is local, and rarely the twain do meet. While most of the white beaus and babes gracing the […]

THE government in the Eastern Cape, one of South Africa’s most impoverished regions, has started a monthly newspaper with a projected budget of more than R1-million for the next six months. Acting premier Smuts Ngonyama said the Eastern Cape Review, launched in Bisho on Wednesday, would be a vehicle for communication, focusing on development issues. […]