SOCCER: Andrew Muchineripi THE arrival of Nigerian champions Shooting Stars this week heralds the start of a hectic period of international activity involving Bafana Bafana and Orlando Pirates. On Sunday at the Free State Stadium in Bloemfontein, the Buccaneers continue their defence of the African Champions’ Cup with a quarter-final tie against highly-rated Stars. The […]

Catholic schools in Gauteng are outraged by a 30% retrospective subsidy cut, reports Max Gebhardt INDEPENDENT Catholic church schools which cater for thousands of disadvantaged black schoolchildren will be the first to suffer in the wake of cutbacks in their subsidies by the Gauteng Education Department. Religious and independent schools in Gauteng have been plunged […]

Nineteen-year-old Tebogo Lerole is bringing the joyful rhythm of the pennywhistle to a new generation. KAREN DAVIS speaks to him – WHEN Elias and Aaron Lerole were small boys, they were already to be found on the streets and at Johannesburg’s Zoo Lake every Sunday earning a living as pennywhistlers. Now, Elias’s children are carrying […]

FINE ART: Hazel Friedman – PHILIP BADENHORST’s exhibition would make interesting “reading” were it not for his desire to make his mark as a neo-expressionist high-tech symbolist. Ultimately that is what one retains of his work – the mark – violent slashes of reds, blues and black. And while vibrant, colourful and certainly evocative, it […]

Stuart Hess TWENTY members of the elite police reaction unit in KwaZulu-Natal stand accused by family members of murdering a 23-year-old Inanda man who was shot as he lay sleeping in bed with his girlfriend. The family of Thulani Nzuza say the group of uniformed officers burst into the house in the early hours of […]

WHEN it was announced that the SABC was to sell six of its regional radio stations everybody cheered. Government rubbed its hands in anticipation of receiving a huge whack of much needed revenue. Potential bidders were finally in with a chance of becoming rich as well as famous. Even the public agreed that 70 years […]

THE cruise missiles have flown again, with even greater accuracy, it is said, than before. They have certainly had a devastating effect on what remains of the alliance which mustered against Saddam Hussein in the Gulf War. United States President Bill Clinton has described the operation as in defence of US national interest and as […]

Ann Eveleth CAUGHT between the rock of its abolitionist principles and the hard place of a constituency ravaged by crime and clamouring for revenge, the African National Congress seized control of the death penalty debate this week. A recommendation from the ANC’s crime summit last weekend asked its leadership to “consider reconsidering” its long-standing opposition […]

Out-of-touch white media planners are touring the townships to get in touch with black consumers, writes Jacquie Golding-Duffy TAKE a taxi to Soweto if you want to get in touch with your black market base. This is the message from Taxinet, a leading media company responsible for advertisements flagged solely in the taxi industry. As […]

A crime wave will lead to calls for blood, just as some silly piece of provocative art will bring calls for censorship, and some foolish action by a single female will bring calls to withhold rights from all women. But the whole purpose of a Bill of Rights is to immunise certain basic human rights […]