Robert Kirby CHANNELVISION It would seem that the recent and rather bizarre practice of apologising for historical wrongs is still on the increase. And flatly refusing to apologise for past sins has become almost as fashionable. People have realised that beating their breasts and slobbering on about what wrongs were committed before they were born […]

Marianne Merten Western Cape MEC for Education Helen Zille practises her Xhosa speech en route to open a computer room in Khayelitsha township. A last-minute call to a language teacher clarifies pronun- ciation and grammar as her driver Ishmael Hendricks negotiates the shack-lined roads and barely held together minibus taxis. Intlanganiso Senior Secondary School – […]

Dale McKinley CROSSFIRE For the past several years there has been a tendency among those on the left of the political spectrum (both domestically and internationally) to take a generally cautious approach when it comes to critically analysing the South African workers’ movement. However, the Congress of South African Trade Unions’ (Cosatu) recent job-loss campaign […]

Charles David Beresford ANOTHER COUNTRY Prince Charles and I were born in the same year. Which is why I nurse a vague sense of identity with him. At least I remember feeling vaguely cheated as a child at hearing he had received a boy-sized, petrol-driven car which really drove for his birthday, while I had […]

Illicit affairs, crimes of passion and political intrigue combine in Love Stories, a new series on SABC3 Lesley Cowling Love has very little part in the cultural stereotype of what we are as a nation. South Africans are hardly considered the great romantics of the world – after all, we’re driven by political rather than […]

Jad Adams BODY LANGUAGE How much of a sexual revolution did we really see in the past century? Romance, monogamy, family and coupling are in the 21st century, as they were in the 19th century, still central to Western culture. Far from sexual freedom breaking the family, one of the most important sex reforms still […]

FOOTBALL authorities in Botswana have suspended three national team players for seven months ahead of a crucial African Cup of Nations preliminary match against Madagascar on July 1. Ashford Mamelodi, Botswana Football Association secretary general said on Monday that defenders Barcos Agisanyang Mosimanegape and Lovemore Mokgweetsi, and reserve player Phemelo Ditsile, were suspended from the […]

POLICE say two Golden Arrow busses were damaged near the N2 in Khayelitsha outside Cape Town on Friday morning. However no passengers were on the bus at the time of the vandalism. Police have stepped up their presence in Khayelitsha following an on-going bus feud in the township. Reports also said on Friday that a […]

FORMER Springbok and NSW Waratahs captain Tiaan Strauss and loose-forward Michael Brial, both at the centre of a player rebellion against New South Wales rugby coach Ian Kennedy this season, were axed on Wednesday from the Waratahs’ national championship squad. South African-born Strauss, former captain Brial and utility backs Darren Junee and Duncan McRae were […]

THE United States has threatened to expel Swaziland from a key trade pact for developing countries if the Swazi king fails to enact new labour legislation. The US embassy in Mbabane said the US will drop Swaziland from its Generalised System of Preferences list unless the government passes a new industrial relations bill ahead of […]