Mick Cleary predicts that Will Carling’s side will adopt a sober approach to halt the All Blacks in their semifinal on ROB ANDREW’S kick fell to earth immediatley. Quite how long it takes England to come down to earth is probably the key to whether they can beat the All Blacks in Sunday’s The team […]

Amid all the sharp and confusing exchanges between the African National Congress and the Inkatha Freedom Party, a strategy is emerging of the type that President Nelson Mandela is so astute at putting in On the one side, the police and various special investigators are closing in on IFP leaders and allies implicated in violence. […]

Rehana Rossouw CENTRAL government has intervened and promised to resolve a dispute between the South African National Defence Force and three communities who were forcibly removed from their land to make way for a battle Advocate Patekile Holomisa, chair of the parliamentary Select Committee on Land Affairs, said after a fact- finding mission to the […]

SA’s Catholic bishops will not tolerate condom demonstrations in their Aids awareness programme, reports Mapula Sibanda An Aids awareness worker has been fired — for showing people how to use a condom. Chrys Matubatuba, 31, an Aids awareness co-ordinator for the South African Catholic Bishops Conference (SACBC) says his demise began last year after he […]

Justin Pearce Kathy Berman, producer of NNTV’s youth magazine programme The Works, is to conduct her own defence when the SABC appears before the Broadcasting Complaints Commission (BCC) today. The SABC has been summoned before the BCC in connection with an insert entitled Sex and Romance in the Nineties which was broadcast as part of […]

Lynda Loxton reports on moves to make the public service more creative and efficient More than a year after the first democratic elections, South Africa’s previously mainly white civil service has started to reflect the new South Africa. But if the recently released draft white paper on the transformation of the public service is anything […]

ALTHOUGH many white farmers have reacted with outrage to Derek Hanekom’s new Land Reform Bill for labour tenants, the draft law is neither new nor revolutionary. It is, in fact, based on regulations that are common in free market societies, writes Andra The Land Reform (Labour Tenants) Bill, published in the Government Gazette this month […]

Rehana Rossouw People campaigning for the new South African Constitution to promote a Christian state are political opportunists trying to reinstate minority baasskap, said African National Congress MP Carl Niehaus this week . Niehaus — who has a theology degree — was responding to the recent march on Parliament by several thousand conservative Christains demanding […]

Office of the President Dear Walter, How the world is changing. The thought struck me last week, when I was delivering the Bram Fischer memorial lecture and Joel Joffe presented me with my papers from the Rivonia Trial that he has had in safe-keeping for all these years. There, among them, were my notes for […]

Iron-age sites reveal some astonishing artefacts — and shatter some dearly held beliefs, reports Bruce Around the time William the Conqueror was gloating over his victory against Britain in 1066, Iron-Age communities on the banks of the Limpopo River were bartering gold and ivory with Swahili traders for glass beads from Egypt, cotton from India […]