A great Springbok victory over the All Blacks was the first ingredient needed in the recipe for a rugby revival RUGBY: Jon Swift SOMEONE had to say it, and All Black coach John Hart did not disappoint. One foot on the plane? A New Zealand Test team? Pull the other one. There has never been […]

Police have been implicated in the assassination of two fellow officers, reports Mungo Soggot THE latest victims of South Africa’s bitter taxi wars are Detective Sergeants Richard Khosa and Michael Baloyi, two of the Pretoria township Soshanguve’s most experienced officers, with more than 20 years service behind them. On the eve of giving crucial testimony […]

The IBA is hearing bids for SABC radio stations, and it’s not just cash that counts – political correctness does too. Katy Bauer reports AT this week’s Independent Broadcasting Authority (IBA) hearings in Johannesburg, everybody wanted to appear historically disadvantaged. However, at least some of their dreams of tragic heroism were a little far-fetched. Three […]

Gaye Davis FINALITY on Bantu Holomisa’s status as an African National Congress (ANC) member could be reached as early as next week. The ANC National Executive Committee (NEC), which must hear Holomisa’s appeal against his expulsion by a disciplinary committee, is scheduled to meet following the Constitutional Court’s judgment on Friday on the new Constitution. […]

Rehana Rossouw EBRAHIM JACOBS says his heart belongs in District Six, and he supports the application to the Land Claims Court because it offers the best opportunity for tenants to return to the area. Jacobs’s family was among the last to leave District Six. They were kicked out in 1981 after alternative housing was built […]

Chris McGreal BURUNDI’S Tutsi-dominated military regime was grappling with renewed Hutu rebel attacks on the capital this week as the country’s largest political party threw its support behind the insurgents in a struggle it compared to black South Africans’ fight against apartheid. Within hours of the announcement the army said rebels had launched a fresh […]

A new book co-authored by Kader Asmal is likely to cause embarrassment in some of South Africa’s boardrooms, reports Mungo Soggot SOME of South Africa’s top business leaders come under fire in a new book on the Truth and Reconciliation Commission co-authored by Water Affairs Minister computing Kader Asmal which fingers companies which supported apartheid. […]

Johannesburg’s cultural politicians experienced a week of turmoil, reports HAZEL FRIEDMAN CHRISTOPHER TILL has lost his battle to hang on to the title of Johannesburg’s director of culture, despite massive support from the South African Municipal Workers Union (SAMWU). The predominantly black union has rallied around Till ever since the Greater Johannesburg Transitional Metropolitan Council […]

PHOTOGRAPHY: Marilyn Keegan – THE invitation to Canned Africa at Cape Town’s Association for Visual Arts describes it as a photographic exhibition. This, however, is a trifle misleading. In these 11 giant works, Geoffrey Grundlingh has pushed the frontiers of photography into another dimension. He has been the head of the photographic department at the […]