Native tongue Bafana Khumalo IT’S gone. It’s no more. The doors are boarded up and all the windows covered by huge steel shutters. There is silence. This is a sad day for me and I hope that my sadness makes me human in your eyes. The source of my sorrow is the demise of a […]

Shadley Nash Two youths from Sterkstroom are in hospital with bullet wounds after an irate resident shot them for stealing fruit from the trees in his yard. The bullet fired by the unnamed resident first passed through 14-year-old Patrick Zolani before lodging in the body of his friend, Willem Pretorius, also 14. Police said a […]

Being an ambassador now involves more than just holding one’s drink and making social chit chat, so perhaps we aught to select with more care, argues Peter Vale THERE has to be a better way to pick our ambassadors. Aside from the fumble over Allan Boesak, in the past month there have been two dropped […]

The legal profession, viewed with scepticism by the public, is in need of transformation, reports Dennis Davis WHILE 1994 brought about a legal revolution, the legal profession showed itself ill-prepared for these momentous changes. By the end of the year, numerous constitutional judgments had been delivered by the supreme court and, with few exceptions, the […]

Joe Modise’s attempt to gain cabinet approval for four new corvettes will not be plain sailing, reports Stefaans Brummer DEFENCE Minister Joe Modise is experiencing opposition from the ranks of ANC cabinet colleagues in his quest to buy the navy four new patrol corvettes — at a cost roughly equal to the R2,5-billion Reconstruction and […]

A unique scheme allows workers to become co-owners of the farm they once only laboured on, reports Gaye Davis LIKE his father before him, Herklaas Botha (26) started working the land just as soon as he was old enough. But it was always someone else’s land. When he arrived at Whitehall Farm, near Grabouw, six […]

CRICKET: Luke Alfred SEEKING someone to head the Plascon Cricket Academy, the United Cricket Board could hardly have chosen better than Clive Rice. Given that Rice’s 24 years at the top were bolstered by a mean streak second to none, it seemed logical to ask him if the belligerence which characterised his career wasn’t perhaps […]

In an attempt to retain some power the National Party will probably reject the winner-takes-all form of democracy, argues Anton Harber NATIONAL PARTY leader FW de Klerk is likely to make proposals next week for partial, watered-down powersharing after the 1999 general election. Party insiders say that De Klerk will use the NP’s federal congress […]

A Peruvian bus trip demonstrates to Old Mutual economist Terence Moll just how ineffectual government economic controls can be ACROSS the valley, lights loomed in the desert night and a subdued murmur ran through the bus. The large Peruvian woman in front of me hitched her seat forward and I stretched for the first time […]