Thandi Lewin For the first time in decades, the University of Cape Town is without an elected students representative council (SRC). Less than 25% of students turned out to vote at the last poll, which, according to the constitution, is not enough to form an SRC, and now new elections must be held next month. […]
SOCCER: Andrew Muchineripi THE final whistle will be blown on the Coca-Cola Challenge Cup this Sunday when Sundowns host Orlando Pirates at the Israeli-designed Odi Stadium north- west of Pretoria. Pirates enter the match needing an eight-goal victory to overtake arch-rivals Kaizer Chiefs on goal difference while success for Sundowns would lift them above Wits […]
Nine murders, five attempted murders — that’s this year’s toll in Jo’burg’s roughest `hood. Angella Johnson visited Westbury this week JOEWA BOTHA leaned nonchalantly against the graffitied wall. He knows the risk of standing on a street corner — a target for drive-by gang shooting. “Look!”, he said, as he pointed excitedly at pock-marked plaster. […]
A group of black farmworkers and a few tough white boers in khaki have worked together to turn their farm into a record-producing money-spinner, reports Eddie Koch The Lomati Valley, a fertile piece of subtropical bushveld that lies in the shadow of the Lebombo Mountains in Mpumalanga, has produced some of the hardiest of South […]
RUGBY: Jon Swift THROUGHOUT the tragically under-promoted Student Rugby World Cup which came and went with barely a ripple over the past month, there was the feeling that this was a shop window of one of South African sport’s biggest failings … the big things we do well, in the lesser concerns we do dismally. […]
DONNING a security uniform and patrolling one’s campus may seem as uncool to students as belonging to Girl Guides. But these days, soaring crime on campuses has led students to rethink the value of “cool”. With armed robberies, car hijackings, rape and even murder becoming increasingly commonplace on campuses, the idea of being a student […]
Now that the politicians are talking peace and the police are collecting the weapons of war, KwaZulu- Natal’s inyangas say it’s time to mix a new muti to cleanse the warriors of the blood of their victims. Uhlambo (peace medicine) is set to replace intelezi (war medicine) as the most popular product on the traditional-medicine […]
Mail & Guardian Reporter THE legal profession is showing signs of becoming caught up in the stampede for transparency and openness. The Transvaal Law Society — which like all provincial law societies is currently trying to vault several bureaucratic hurdles to modernise its name — is planning to ask its members in November to vote […]
The Western Cape ANC is under pressure to abandon an unwritten rule that its chairperson be coloured, Rehana Rossouw reports SENIOR sources in the Western Cape ANC say a major shake-up is required if the party expects to challenge the National Party in 1999 for control of the province. Following their crushing defeat in urban […]
Large multinationals in Zimbabwe have been criticised for not putting blacks in top spots, reports Iden Wetherell Sixteen years after Zimbabwe’s independence, company chairmen may be black but chief executives are still mostly white. This is so even in companies where the government has a majority share. Skewed recruitment patterns which overlook local talent led […]