Barbara Ludman POINT OF ORIGIN by Patricia Cornwell (Little, Brown) Patricia Cornwell’s life generally spills over into her books. In this one, it threatens to take the book over. She’s made a background theme of the FBI’s prurient interest in its agents’ affairs ever since she was named as co-respondent in a divorce suit lodged […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Kimberly | Friday, 8.00pm. GRIQUAS showed a sensational first-half score run in which they scored six tries, and then went on to notch up a definite 64-7 win over Mpumalanga Pumas in their Bankfin Currie Cup rugby match at the Absa Park stadium on Friday. Griquas led 36-0 at halftime. It was man […]

Donna Block: Share World Until very recently Greece was considered Europe’s basket case economy, with huge public debt, an antiquated labour market, an enormous bureaucracy and a state sector reminiscent of the old Soviet bloc in its inefficiency and corruption. But signs are that the poorest country in the European Union is getting its act […]

`justice’ When hit squads roamed KwaZulu-Natal during the early 1990s, the province’s Attorney General, Tim McNally, developed a reputation for being reluctant to prosecute alleged Inkatha Freedom Party assassins and their police accomplices. McNally’s seemingly ambiguous attitude to prosecution was once again in the public spotlight last week when the attorney general released a press […]

Mukoni T Ratshitanga The Vaal Triangle Technikon council this week rubbished a report on the troubled institution commissioned by Minister of Education Sibusiso Bengu and announced it will challenge the minister’s intervention in court. The fight between the technikon and the minister was triggered by the council’s decision to discipline rector Aubrey Mokadi, accused of […]

Robert Kirby: Loose Cannon This past week, I wandered down to the bottom of my garden to see how the fairies were getting along. What with the lack this year of anything you might have called a rainy season, I had left them to their own devices. In the “new” South Africa, fairies, like everyone […]

Gail Smith She’s here. Me’shell Ndegeocello, a woman with a bass guitar who knows what to do with it. A singer, song-writer and multi- instrumentalist who describes jazz as her “first love”, she plays guitar, keyboards and bass (her primary instrument). When asked if this is not “an unusual instrument for a woman” she smiles […]

Maureen Barnes Down the tube The Emmy Awards – the Hollywood TV industry’s mutual back-scratching night out – took three-and- a-half hours to screen, and this was the edited version. In that amount of time, I imagine, the Almighty created a sizeable chunk of the earth and the creatures thereon. Having been caught before, I […]

Cynthia Schoeman Are leaders born or made? What made Mahatma Ghandi a person of adulation to millions, able to lead thousands in protest actions? The debate still rages. But whether leadership is inborn or developed, certainly there are too few natural leaders to meet the demands of companies in today’s fast changing world. Therefore, organisations […]

Evidence wa ka Ngobeni Student political organisations at Technikon Witwatersrand have collapsed because they have failed to find roles in the new South Africa. “The leadership here has been weakening because students are not united in dealing with issues which affect them,” said student affairs official Andy Dass. “Student political organisations before the 1994 elections […]