South Africa can draw upon a wealth of international experience of truth commissions, writes Eddie Koch SOUTH Africa is not the only country to scour its past in a cathartic endeavour to uncover details about human rights abuses. There have been at least 15 truth commissions in 13 countries over the last 20 years, and […]

Steuart Wright Political scientists at four universities are in a foul mood over the expedient job-hunting behaviour of internationally respected Nigerian academic Professor Oye They said the charming political scientist and international relations specialist had simultaneously signed contracts for three chairs at their universities at the end of last year. However, news of each university’s […]

Mike Loewe Champagne flowed and there were cheers, tears, hugs and kisses when Rhodes Music Radio went on air on Wednesday With the words: “Welcome Grahamstown! This is Rhodes Music Radio,” station manager Glenn Loggerenberg launched the station on the 89.7 Mhz FM band at 7 am. Walters, who also serves as technical officer for […]

FINE ART: James Garner THE paintings by Francine Scialom Greenblatt at the South=20 African Association of Arts in Cape Town serve as a=20 reminder that explorations of sex and sexuality need not be=20 subsumed by the self-conscious, ironic appropriation of=20 media stereotypes that has become so fashionable among=20 artists desperate to place themselves at the […]

Bafana Khumalo Native Tongue You know the feeling. It’s late at night and no matter how=20 many times you toss, turn and punch that pillow, nothing=20 happens. You turn to the body next to you, moving closer.=20 She/he/it shakes your hand off, groggily asking, “What on=20 earth do you think you are doing?” You move […]

CRICKET: Jon Swift IT IS politic, with the release of next season’s cricket=20 fixtures as early as the eve of the Rugby World Cup, to=20 examine the drive to put a million bums in stadium seats=20 during the summer still to dawn. It is an ambitious project. “But,” says Ali Bacher,=20 managing director of the […]

Eddie Koch BLAST, lash, haul and crush. The words that describe the essential stages of gold production on South African mines are drawn from the imagery of battle. When Sotho miners go underground to do these tasks, they sometimes sing a song with a chorus line that says liphoro tsa mali, liphoro — floods of […]

The Mark Gevisser Profile Why, I asked Minister of Justice Dullah Omar, did he think that, of all the issues before our first Government of National Unity, the one that nearly brought the whole damn house tumbling down was his Truth and Reconciliation Bill? “All of us involved in this bill,” he replied with those […]

Iden Wetherall in Harare When Zimbabwe’s senior public prosecutor made it clear on Monday that the police had insufficient evidence to proceed with defamation charges against those at the helm of the contry’s leading independent newspaper, and that arrests and charges were in any case inappropriate procedures in such a case, a telephone call from […]

With the opening match against the formidable Australians=20 less than a week away, the South=20 African team is buckling down to the task ahead RUGBY: Jon Swift IT is ironic that a game which was for so long considered a=20 symbol of the repression of the aspirations of this=20 country’s citizens should have assumed such […]