Exposing the dirty deeds of the apartheid death squads was a cleansing experience for Jacques Pauw, writes Angella Johnson ONE of the most poignant moments in Jacques Pauw’s remarkable two-hour television documentary on mass murderer Eugene de Kock was the moment he faced the camera and confronted his own apartheid ghost: the role he played […]

Ernie Els is really just one of the boys – except when he’s displaying his exceptional talents on the golf course GOLF:David Davies THE Christian names are Ernest Theodore but, if ever a man was an Ernie, it is the golfer who on Sunday became the first person to win the Toyota World Match Play […]

LOCAL production company Penguin Films is going through the roof – what with its sit- com series Going Up beating Soul City to the top of the TV ratings with a combined adult and youth audience of 3,5-million, and a new character-based drama series Gaabo Motho, scripted by renowned author, anti-apartheid activist and medical doctor […]

South Africa are getting the job of winning done in India, but playing is more than work for the players – it’s a way of life CRICKET:V Roger Prabasarkar INDIA is undergoing a social, economic and cultural revolution to compare with any in the last decade. In fact, the mother of all change, the French […]

Shared concerns have persuaded South Africa’s editors to unite in one body, writes Anton Harber WHEN Tribute magazine editor S’bu Mngadi told the editors’ unity conference last weekend that the media industry was still racist, it brought a moment of rare silence from the more than 80 senior journalists present. Mngadi’s passionate outburst against those […]

They killed alongside adults; now the child fighters of Sierra Leone are experiencing childhood, writes Claudia McElroy THE classroom’s sea of faces wear expressions ranging from lively interest and bewilderment to boredom and incomprehension. Yet for most of these youngsters at a centre for ex- combatants, grappling with basic literacy is better than life at […]

Alex Sudheim SIX years ago Nadine Raal was crooning for her supper in smoky jazz clubs on Durban’s Point Road, serenading inebriated audiences with Blue Moon and Old Man River. “But,” sing Pavement, masters of slanted and subverted country music, “you gotta pay your dues before you pay the rent.” Presumably Raal doesn’t have too […]

Mungo Soggot went to Ogies to visit the man who looks after the world’s largest oil storage facility, apartheid’s oil stash IT is difficult to believe Frikkie Cloete when he points across a bleak mielie field in the middle of Mpumalanga and says “all this is oil – for 6km that way”. But Cloete, manager […]

BAFANA KHUMALO travelled to the Karoo to visit the set of the film Paljas, a collaboration between Katinka Heyns and Anant Singh MANY a traveller, in the relative comfort of his train compartment, has rattled past this dusty cell and thanked his god that it was not his home. The house on the side of […]

Cape Marion Edmunds THE Cabinet has dispatched a crack team of civil servants and international experts to Bisho to investigate the administrative chaos in the Eastern Cape. The team, which includes a deputy director- general, chief directors and Swedish and British experts, is spending two weeks in the Eastern Cape and will report back with […]