The skirmish for Wits University’s top job continues, writes Philippa Garson THE students and academics who rallied behind Professor William Malegapuru Makgoba in his recent skirmish in Wits University’s corridors of power have turned against him and don’t want him to lead the institution. As speculation around contenders for the university’s top job grows, it […]

With the South African media industry transforming, a new class of media players is emerging. Jacquie Golding-Duffy reports on the most prominent among them An eminent group of media moguls is waiting in the wings as the South African media industry goes through a series of ownership changes. The most prominent among them is New […]

Justin Pearce GROWING anti-landmine sentiments in South Africa and abroad have prompted the Department of Foreign Affairs to announce a permanent ban on the export of the mines by South Africa, confirming a moratorium which has been in place for the past two years. A suspension has also been placed on the use of mines […]

Two years after the inauguration of Nelson Mandela, Martin Woollacott, the Guardian’s leading commentator on the world’s geopolitics, visited South Africa WHEN historians reassess the South African revolution, they may well decide that the old regime gave up less because of pressure from its enemies or because it belatedly realised its own wrong-doing than because […]

DANCE Naked on a goat – Market Theatre, Newtown Reviewed by: HAZEL FRIEDMAN IF Robyn Orlin were an artwork, I’d buy her in bulk. She, more than any other artist has straddled, subverted and transcended the boundaries of art-making in all its forms. And her latest offering, Naked on a Goat (see picture – Backstage […]

With four teams jammed at the top of the log, working out the permutations on paper is harder than playing it out on the field RUGBY: Jon Swift PERHAPS the greatest thing about sport is its unpredictability: the propensity of competition to turn the form book on its head; the sudden lapse of concentration which […]