The Centre for Development Enterprise is committed to a strong role for the state in creating the environment for growth and development, says Ann Bernstein In his attack on the Centre for Development Enterprise (CDE) publication Policy Making in a New Democracy: South Africa’s Challenges for the 21st Century, Jeremy Cronin misrepresents the CDE’s conclusions […]

alien’ Marianne Merten The Aliens Control Act was used to arrest international fugitive and American embassy bombings suspect Khalfan Khamis Mohamed and deport him to the United States. Mohamed applied for permission to stay in South Africa pending an application for political asylum under the false name of Zahran Nassor Maulid. New York-based FBI representative […]

Fiona Macleod A campaign similar to the one which saved the Brenton Blue butterfly from extinction is being mounted to protect a rare butterfly species in Gauteng’s premier nature reserve complex. The Heidelberg Copper, so named because of the golden metallic sheen of its wings and its discovery at Heidelberg in 1959, is threatened by […]

Hilary Fine Lifestyle After life winds you up, you need to wind down. Stress can kill you, and to stay healthy you must find ways to de-stress. You are in need of serious self-help! Somewhere between the frenetic rat race of nine-to-five living and the solitary peace of a hermit, there is an equilibrium and […]

Khadija Magardie The South African National Defence Force’s (SANDF) skewed policy on HIV/Aids has once again come under the spotlight, after an HIV-positive soldier in Durban sought legal assistance after threats to discontinue his anti-retroviral therapy. Following a letter from the soldier’s lawyer, the SANDF backed down, stating that it would continue treating patients already […]

TANZANIA’S former president Julius Nyerere will be buried in his home country on October 23, parliamentary speaker Pius Msekwa announced on Friday. Nyerere, widely revered both at home and abroad, died Thursday morning in a London hospital at the age of 77. It was not yet clear exactly where in Tanzania Nyerere will be buried. […]

Johnny Masilela The fragmented South African film and TV industry cameras are beginning to focus towards unity. Stakeholders from 200-odd interest groupings have edged closer towards engaging the government with one voice, through an all-embracing and ambitious draft document entitled The South African Film and TV Industry: Vision Statement. Cultural development activist Avril Joffe, who […]

give up’ Charlene Smith spoke to a gang-rape survivor who refuses to let her attackers get her down Eastern Cape mother Amy Brown is the first South African woman who is HIV- positive after being gang-raped to have the courage to speak out. She miscarried what would have been her third child a week after […]

Chris McGreal The Burundian army has forced nearly 300 000 people from their homes and into detention camps around the capital, Bujumbura, amid a rise in attacks by Hutu rebels that have claimed thousands of lives. The government says people have been sent to ”protected villages” for their own safety. But the main Hutu group […]