Wally Mbhele and Evidence wa ka Ngobeni The commissioner of correctional services, Khulekani Sitole, is embroiled in a new scandal following accusations that he has used more than R1,2-million of the department’s money to fund a lucrative scholarship he named after himself. The Department of Correctional Services says it has already spent R1-million of the […]

models? Tom Lodge A SECOND LOOK Before considering any changes to the existing electoral system it may be useful to recall its virtues. National list proportional representation is just about the simplest way to translate voters’ preferences into equitable representation. It benefits small parties, even very small ones, by allowing them a voice in law-making […]

Paul Kirk Jonty Sandler, one of South Africa’s most high-profile businessmen, could inexplicably not be found when police attempted to execute a warrant for his arrest for alleged rape, and he remains a free man a month later. “The warrant should have been executed. If someone is to be arrested then he must be arrested […]

Robert Kirby Channel vision ‘The petrol price has gone up with 60c since the beginning of the year. If it will reach the R3 mark at the end of the year …” intones SABC television news reporter Joanne Roodt. “One of eight people accused are being charged,” whines Nadia Levin from deep inside the tornado-chic […]

Adam Mars-Jones LADYSMITH by Giles Foden (Faber &Faber) Giles Foden’s admirable novel emphasises the modernity of the Boer War by including the media in his cast of characters: not merely war correspondents, but also a cameraman, “the Biographer”, who captures events in moving images. Foden’s great-grandfather was a British trooper at Ladysmith, and copies of […]

Gavin Evans in London English Premiership When I ask my South African friends what they think of Lucas Radebe they tend to come up with words such as “underperformer”. A Johannesburg lawyer chum of mine said, “The odd thing about Radebe is that he doesn’t look so good in Bafana Bafana.” Until very recently, the […]

WORLD Cup favourites New Zealand pulverised Italy 101-3, the highest score of the 1999 tournament, on Thursday after record-breaking performances by fullback Jeff Wilson and winger Jonah Lomu. Wilson broke the All Blacks’ career try record, held by former winger John Kirwan, with his second try of three in the group B game. Wilson now […]

SOUTH Africa have lost another star player ahead of their Group A match against Uruguay at Hampden Park. Full-back Breyton Paulse, who was on the substitutes bench, was diagnosed with ‘flu on Friday morning. His place on the bench will be taken by wing Stefan Terblanche.

SAMOAN centre To’o Vaega, the man whose controversial try broke Welsh hearts in 1991, was so overwhelmed by his team’s victory that he named his son Cardiff. Vaega, now 34 and one of four survivors from the 1991 team playing for Samoa against Wales on Thursday, scored the first try in his country’s shock 16-13 […]

THE newly-updated 1999 edition of the SA Rugby Annual – the “bible’ of the game in South Africa – is now available. The redesigned and revamped SA Rugby Annual 1999 fills the void left by the disappearance after 1997 of the Bankfin Annual, edited for 26 years by Beeld journalist Quintus van Rooyen until his […]