Karen Harverson speaks to Transport Minister Mac Maharaj on the links to=20 sub-Saharan continent=20 The South African government has proposed to the Southern African=20 Development Community (SADC) that the trunk roads leading into other=20 sub-Saharan countries be upgraded. =D2It would be financed by the imposition of a cross-border tariff which=20 would be used to rehabilitate […]

The Azanian Students=D5 Movement is misusing Steve Biko=D5s name for its= own sectarian interests, argues Mamphela Ramphele THE tensions around the Azanian Students Movement=D5s (Azasm)=20 campaign to have white teachers in schools previously set aside for black= people replaced by unemployed black teachers, in the name of black=20 solidarity, is a chilling reminder of the […]

A =D4Save the Cape=D5 campaign is being instituted to defuse increasing ra= tension in the Western Cape, reports Rehana Rossouw Racial tension could explode in the Cape if nothing is done to reduce=20 antagonism between coloureds and Africans, religious leaders and=20 politicians warned this week. Rallying behind a call to =D2Save the Cape=D3, the Anglican […]

Gavin Du Venage THE Eastern Cape may lose another provincial minister after Health=20 Minister Dr Gertrude Thomas came under attack from within her own=20 party, the ANC, over the poor performance of her ministry. If she goes, Thomas will be the third Eastern Cape cabinet member to lose= her job since the establishment of the […]

CINEMA: Justin Pearce THERE=D5S something strangely fortuitous about the South African release=20 of Before the Rain coinciding with Nato=D5s long-awaited decision to slap= Serbia on its blood-spattered wrists. The film is, after all, an examinatio= n of=20 the relationship =D1 or, rather, the lack of relationship =D1 between Weste= Europe and the Balkans at a […]

If centralism dominates the new Constitution, we will have wasted an=20 opportunity for grassroots empowerment, argues IFP MP Farouk Cassim IS THE most memorable epoch in the history of Africa about to be=20 witnessed with the finalisation of the Constitution of the new Republic of= South Africa? (The Second Republic?) Will our Constitution provide, in […]

Lack of funding is behind last week=D5s resignations at Pact, reports Barba= THE arts community cheered in May when the Minister of Arts and=20 Culture saved the Market Theatre with a R3-million grant. On Friday last=20 week, Pact=D5s chairman and chief executive officer resigned, and five head= of department announced they would follow. The events […]

The whites of the old Rhodesia used to take particular pride in the heroic= saga of the Shangane river patrol =D1 a police detachment which was=20 surrounded and massacred by the Matabele impis of Lobengula, singing=20 God Save the Queen as they died.=20 Some years ago, a historian created a furious controversy when he=20 suggested […]

CRICKET: Jon Swift WITH the wraps off the England tour party, the immediate reaction is to=20 contemplate a summer of speed. Allan Donald and Fanie de Villiers,=20 maybe even Brett Schultz, spearheading the South Africans. Devon=20 Malcolm, Darren Gough and Dominic Cork at the sharp end of England=D5s=20 six-man seam attack. Perhaps though this is […]

Part museum, part holiday resort, Lesedi Cultural Village offers a =D4Real= African Experience=D5. JUSTIN PEARCE asks: What=D5s wrong with=20 THE American tourists are in traditional dress: golf shirts and polyester= slacks. Looking quietly excited and a touch apprehensive, they meet Xolani= Dludla, their guide, at the reception area of Lesedi Cultural Village and= follow him […]