The past and present Springbok captains clash when Francois Pienaar’s Transvaal take on Gary Teichmann’s Natal this weekend RUGBY: Jon Swift THERE is little left really for Transvaal this season but to pick up the pieces. A win against Natal at King’s Park in Durban this weekend will perhaps keep them in the running for […]

Greg Streak is the first South African artist to win a place in one of the world’s great sculpture schools, reports SUZY BELL AT LAST, a white male South African who doesn’t spend his days whingeing about feeling dislocated, alienated and oh so lonesome in the new South Africa. Instead, Durban artist Greg Streak (25) […]

Mail & Guardian Reporters The question about why there are virtually no photographs of the judges in the Appellate Division has been answered by the librarian at the Rand Supreme Court. She told a reporter that if the media published the judges’ photos, it would be “putting their lives in jeopardy.” She refused to tell […]

highest court The Bill allowing abortion was tabled in Parliament this week. But Catholic bishops have instructed their lawyers to oppose it in the Constitutional Court. Gaye Davis reports SOUTH Africa’s Catholic bishops intend challenging the liberalisation of the country’s abortion laws in the Consitutional Court. The Southern African Catholic Bishops’ Conference (SACBC) has instructed […]

Eddie Koch EVIDENCE in Colonel Eugene de Kock’s mitigation hearing suggests clandestine support from the police for Inkatha paramilitary units to attack ANC supporters in the early 1990s — long after the movement was unbanned — was not a maverick operation by members of the Vlakplaas unit for personal gain. De Kock told the court […]

Richard Thomas in London The World Bank is privately warning that Haitian peasants could be forced to emigrate in order to find jobs, in stark contrast to the bank’s public endorsement of a “people first” development strategy. Ahead of the bank’s annual meeting in Washington in a fortnight’s time, aid agencies said the disclosure would […]

Australia’s grand old matriarch of contemporary painting Emily Kame Kngwarreye was kept working until she dropped, reports Anthea Gerrie THE extraordinary army of spongers who lived off the talents of Emily Kame Kngwarreye, Australia’s foremost contemporary painter, are looking for a new meal ticket after her. Emily’s talent was milked by her extended family for […]

Julius Zava in Harare Zimbabweans are concerned that the ruling Zanu-PF party is amending the constitution willy-nilly, and is trampling on human rights and eroding judicial independence in the process. Since independence in 1980, Zanu-PF, which has 147 MPs out of a total 150, has amended the constitution 13 times. The 14th amendment has just […]

Frank Swoboda and Don Phillips in Washington USAir Chairman Stephen M Wolf says there is no room for his airline in the proposed international marketing agreement between American Airlines and British Airways (BA). “We simply do not believe we can be a part of it,” Wolf said, signalling a further rupture in the relationship with […]

Scores of South Africans have joined the scramble for diamonds in Angola, reports John Liebenberg South Africans who are plundering Angola’s diamond fields have no respect for the country’s laws or Angolan sovereignty, according to officials in Luanda. Eighteen South Africans were imprisoned for eight days due to an “unfortunate mistake” by the Angolan government […]