The ANC is being forced to address growing divisions between coloureds and Africans, reports Gaye Davis. Tensions between coloureds and Africans within the ANC in the Western Cape are paralysing the movement and jeopardising its chances of regaining political ground in the local government elections. Western Cape ANC leader Reverend Chris Nissen was to meet […]
Controversial Danie Malan, Johannesburg’s high-flying sports chief, is set to grab the top job in SA athletics, reports Julian Drew Next week the controlling body of the sport, Athletics South Africa (ASA), will hold its first election since official unity was achieved more than three troubled and turbulent years ago — and Danie Malan, Johannesburg’s […]
Justin Pearce asks why democracy has worsened the conflict on our campuses The annual row over student fees has become as regular an event on the calendars of some universities as the intervarsity rugby match at others. Students invoke their right to education — the university invokes dwindling government subsidies and rising costs. Usually, everything […]
Bafana Khumalo WHAT the bloody hell am I doing here? I am on an Air Force base tarmac and am about to catch a cold from the rain that has been building up from a gentle drizzle to a serious body-drenching downpour. “Well, I am doing Gallagher and thereafter I don’t think that I am […]
Weekly Mail & Guardian editor Anton Harber, a former Wits student, believes the university administration has been too clever for its own good The University of the Witwatersrand is providing an early-warning barometer of pressures we can expect in the rest of our society. The campus has often served this role. In the 1970s, it […]
RUGBY: Jon Swift THERE is little doubt that, right now at least, if you=20 asked Kitch Christie for the loan of his life, he would=20 willingly sign ov er a long-term lease on it. Such have been the frustrations and fumblings of our top=20 players over the past few weeks, that the national coach=20 must, […]
Gauteng is cheesed off at its slice of the national=20 revenue pie. Reg Rumney reports The Gauteng government may have to find R1,2-billion this=20 year to get its sums right. That is the shortfall between=20 the money Gauteng will get from the central government=20 and its own revenue and spending.=20 It might have to borrow […]
Audrey Brown There are those among the coloured people who have always been uneasy with that label and, in the last year or so, their discomfort has grown. Complaints and accusations that they are not “black enough” do not sit easy with these people. Emerging as they do from the old townships of Kliptown, Sofiatown, […]
Handel’s Messiah is a ‘fitting celebration of the South=20 African experience’, says Lord Yehudi Menuhin, who will=20 be conducting this work in Johannesburg tonight. Coenraad=20 Visser reports WHEN Lord Yehudi Menuhin is ushered into a crowded press=20 room hours after his arrival in South Africa this week,=20 his slight physical stature takes one by surprise. […]
You have to hand it to Winnie Mandela. She is unmatched for fighting power. Not only is she back on her feet and fighting back when everyone had counted her out, but she seems to be stronger than ever. She is the Mohammed Ali of the ANC, though Ali limited himself to three returns to […]