TELEVISION: Bafana Khumalo SOMETHING new has been happening on Monday evenings on SABC2. I, as a black South African, have been recognising myself on the small screen. It is not exactly my life, but it calls to mind a painting I have seen around me all my life. All this from Gaabo Motho. One has […]

When the melon seller stabbed the swimmer … and other tales from Moscow. David Hearst and Steven Downes report DYNAMO Stadium, once the impregnable fortress of teams representing the Soviet Union’s Ministry of the Interior, is today under siege from a multitude of vendors’ stalls. The Metro stop, done up like a Roman temple, still […]

The new Springbok management style has been a success on and off the field – so far RUGBY:Andy Capostagno TWO weeks into tour and still no banana skins. There were a few slippery moments in the first Test, but seven tries to two is a fairly emphatic victory in anyone’s language, and no one is […]

Rehana Rossouw DOOR-TO-DOOR campaigning has already started in some Free State towns as African National Congress members rally support for their candidates for the election of new leaders in the forthcoming provincial conference. A drive for new members is also under way to win seats on the regional executive – amid complaints in areas known […]

Allegations of political horse-trading have tainted the selection of the new SABC board, reports Jacquie Golding-Duffy THE new South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) board members await President Nelson Mandela’s approval before they can take up their seats at the end of the month. But this round of nominees, selected by a parliamentary committee, has raised […]

John de St Jorre in London AN oil painting which has been missing for 400 years and is attributed to the Italian old master, Caravaggio, could fetch up to 10-million at an auction in London next month. The picture is the property of a private owner. The auctioneers, Phillips, originally attributed the picture in their […]

Anne Eveleth DEPARTMENT of Land Affairs labour tenant rights facilitator Busani Ngubane says many labour tenant eviction cases are complicated by the involvement of a plethora of unions and organisations operating in the Vryheid area. “Some of these unions charge people money just to introduce them to a lawyer. Others get people to sign contracts […]

The justice minister wrote a letter expressing outrage at the way police handled a murder, reports Angella Johnson THE family of an African National Congress (ANC) trainee diplomat killed at the Vaal Dam nearly a year ago, has received a letter of apology from Justice Minister Dullah Omar stating he was “outraged” with the way […]

The presdent’s handling of the leadership issue is an indication that the ANC is asserting the importance of the organisation over the individual.Stefaans Brmmer and Marion Edmunds report PRESIDENT Nelson Mandela’s weekend statement to his party’s National Executive Committee (NEC) was less a reflection on Thabo Mbeki’s chances to be his political heir than a […]

Homeless communities in KwaZulu-Natal have been locked into land agreements which they don’t understand and can’t possibly afford, reports Ann Eveleth ALPHEUS MNCUBE believes he is a lucky man. Smiling proudly from the corrugated-iron roof of his freshly packed wattle-and-daub house, the railway worker boasts about the fruits of his labour: “This house wasn’t here […]