After eight months on the streets, Elias was homesick. Thomas Khoza, a contrib utor to Homeless Talk, helped the streetchild find his way home again Elias, aged 10, came into our lives at 1am on a warm September night in Hillbr ow. He and three other street children were asleep on a patch of earth […]

Stuart Hess The coming of freedom in South Africa has spurred a growing movement among Afr ican-Americans to skip Christmas and instead to celebrate the festival of Kwan zaa. But in South Africa itself, the festival is unknown except to those who have l ived in the United States – and they do not seem […]

The crises besetting Africa’s most populous nation show how the West has turne d its back on the continent, writes Glenn Frankel WHEN Nigeria’s military government hanged the writer Ken Saro-Wiwa and eight o ther political activists in November 1995, world leaders such as Bill Clinton and Nelson Mandela reacted with shock, anger and the […]

Ann Eveleth Three former KwaZulu-Natal security policemen have applied to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) for amnesty, the commission’s chief investigator said this week. TRC investigator Satchie Govender confirmed reports that former Durban security policemen Colonel Andy Taylor and Captain Tjaart Fourie ‘ now with the TRC’s Witness Protection Unit ‘ and Pietermaritzburg policeman […]

Rehana Rossouw ‘I HAVE never been so satisfied with a job well done as I was today,’ said Tito Mboweni, minister of labour and African National Congress troubleshooter hours after witnessing the swearing-in of South Africa’s first woman premier, Dr Ivy Matsepe-Casaburri, this week. Round one went to Mboweni. Round two takes place in February, […]

Despite all the odds ‘against him, Andre Markgraaff’s Springboks have scored the points Rugby: Barney Spender Remember all those headlines eight weeks ago? The shock, the anger, the emotional outrage from pundits and public alike? The botched television announcement of the Springbok touring party? The absence of Francois Pienaar, the inclusion of Theo Oosthuizen, the […]

The Mpumalanga Parks Board is desperately trying to rescue its ‘theme resort’ deal, reports Justin Arenstein DESPITE mounting public opposition and the discovery that there are gazetted land claims on some of the key conservation areas promised to the Dubai-based Dolphin Group, the Mpumalanga Parks Board denied on Thursday that their R12,2-billion deal was in […]

Joshua Amupadhi WITS University Deputy Vice-Chancellor for Student Affairs June Sinclair is to leave the administration at the end of this month, after failing in her bid to win the most powerful office on the campus. Sinclair, defeated in October in the contest to be Wits’ next vice-chancellor, said this week she would not ask […]

Charl Blignaut SAY what you like about the Tevin Campbell concert at the Standard Bank arena in Johannesburg last weekend, the highlight of the evening had to be the crowd. Mingling at the slightly tame Radio Metro bash beforehand (I mean, what radio station hangs banners saying ‘Where the music talks’ and then doesn’t play […]

Would court action to prevent the recent tax amnesty ‘succeed? Our legal columnist thinks not The government has again extended its tax amnesty to non-payers. In essence, this is an invitation to people who have not paid tax, for various lengths of time and often ever, to come forward and put themselves inside the taxation […]