Ricardo Dunn The Bloemfontein man who was convicted last month of killing a dog by inserting a firecraker into its rectum has been relieved from his community service sentence at the SPCA. The Bloemfontein SPCA applied to the magistrate’s court to revoke its decision after it received hundreds of letters from the public and potential […]

Ed O’Loughlin IT may be only 10 days since his painful divorce from Winnie, but President Mandela has already given plenty of indication that he intends to make up for lost time. On Wednesday the Irish President’s state visit to South Africa was overshadowed in the popular press back home by news that Mandela, footloose […]

Without financial back-up and in defiance of Parliament and the IBA, BopBC is going it alone, reports Jacquie Golding-Duffy With only days to go before the Bophuthatswana Broadcasting Corporation (BopBC) is obliged to integrate with the SABC, the broadcaster, once the mouthpiece of Lucas Mangope, is defiantly going it alone, outside of the Independent Broadcasting […]

Barney Pityana, chairman of the Human Rights Commission, in The Mark Gevisser Profile WHEN Geoff Budlender visited one of the many trials of Barney Pityana in the early 1970s, he ran into his fellow student-leader’s mother, whom he did not recognise but who clearly seemed to know him. She revealed herself as Budlender’s aunt’s domestic […]

The Kenyans dominated the world cross country championships once again, but the organisers were the real winners ATHLETICS: Julian Drew SOUTH AFRICA’S aspirations to host the world’s top sporting events received a significant boost after last Saturday’s world cross country championships in Stellenbosch which many experienced observers considered the best they had ever attended. The […]

Ad agencies disagree over the best means of advertising on the Internet, Jacquie Golding- Duffy reports on the possibilities Advertising agencies are being swept up by the “fourth media” — the Internet — but they disagree on whether it is more viable to handle it in-house or commission work to an outside agency. While VWV […]

There is much to commend the idea of a monument which celebrates the triumph of freedom in South Africa and remembers those who sacrified and suffered to achieve it. Think of Auschwitz standing for all to visit and be reminded of the pledge of survivors, repeated by Mandela in his inauguration address: “Never, never again.” […]

DNA testing may be the only solution to the furore surrounding the ‘skull’ of Chief Hintsa, recently discovered in Scotland. Eddie Koch reports The controversial “head” of Chief Hintsa, which has been brought back to South Africa, will become the subject of an intriguing scientific study mixing high-tech genetic analysis with Xhosa oral history. Hintsa […]

Bafana Khumalo Black, White, Coloured, Indian … these categories don’t exist. There are only two races of people in this country: reasonably normally dysfunctional people like you and me and a sector who should not be out on the streets. I had the pleasure of meeting a member of this race last week when I […]

Pieter-Dirk Uys, South Africa’s most playful political commentator, digs into the truth commission in an effort to define what is true and what is just another aspect of reality THROUGHOUT our lives, I bet you, we’ve all at one time or another sweated before a truth commission. As small children, in front of the giggling […]