CRICKET: Jon Swift THERE is something vaguely intimidating about coming=20 face to face with a living legend, even one as openly=20 receptive to the advances of lesser mortals as cricket=20 great Sir Garfield Sobers. At 59, the hair is greying and the lines demarcating=20 the edges of the mouth more deeply embedded than in his=20 […]

Gaye Davis CLAUSES in the interim Constitution governing education are impeding the African National Congress’ ability to deliver and should be expunged from the new Constitution, says Blade Nzimande, chairperson of the National Assembly Portfolio Committee on Education. The collapse of mass-based organisation was also threatening transformation, he said in an interview this week. “You […]

JAZZ: Meshack Mabogoane A MONTH after his appointment as co-director of the=20 State Theatre, the appearance of Hugh Masekela at=20 Kippie’s in downtown Johannesburg last week was a=20 fitting reminder that he is both the supreme embodiment=20 of a cultural stream that has been exiled from stately=20 consideration, and a musical establishment in his own=20 […]

Ann Eveleth UNIVERSITY of Durban-Westville officials are mystified by the bugging of a campus union official and a mysterious “investigation” of campus affairs by suspected National Intelligence Agency (NIA) agents, who apparently claimed they were sent by President Nelson Mandela. The conversation-monitoring device was discovered by private investigators in the office of Combined Staff Association […]

Molefe Matlou Students at Tladi Comprehensive High School in Soweto studied in classrooms with broken windows, doors and leaking roofs, had no toilet facilities and had to crowd together in the four decent classrooms when it rained. But, despite these conditions, the school was never placed on the Department of Education and Training’s priority list […]

Philippa Garson THE proposed closure of the central unit of Wits University’s Academic Development Programme — which offers support to educationally disadvantaged students — has met with dismay in some student and staff circles and raised questions about the direction being taken by the university on its academic development The decision to close down the […]

An exhibition at Museum Africa reveals how South=20 African history as we know it was constructed through=20 text and images. RUTH SACK reports WAKE up, Thomas Baines, your time has come around=20 again. Or so a visit to the exhibition Frontiers — now=20 relocated from the Gertrude Posel Gallery to Museum=20 Africa in Newtown — […]

Jon Swift IN A week of momentous change for world rugby, the=20 opening of the professional gates by the greybeards of=20 the International Rugby Board has been overshadowed by=20 the concussion of Chester Williams in a tackle on James=20 Small, and the subsequent two-step across the stricken=20 winger’s back. It cost Williams his place in […]

The Centre for Applied Legal Studies has produced a draft Bill on prostitution for the Department of Health, reports Rehana Rossouw South Africa’s growing sex industry offers consumers sex in books and magazines, on pornographic videos and over sex chat lines, but the law still prohibits them from buying the real thing. This anomaly should […]

Rehana Rossouw South Africa will once again have sex police, like it did when police shone torches into bedrooms hunting people having sex across the colour line, if the draft Bill prepared by the Centre for Applied Legal Studies succeeds, a sex worker organisation warned this week. “We are going to need policemen in brothels, […]