Chris Gordon Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni has proposed a separate deal to Angola’s Jos Eduardo dos Santos to stand back from the conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo – a move that could tip the civil war in the favour of the Congolese rebels and pave the way for a new regional order in […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Friday 4.00PM. ZIMBABWEAN and Angolan troops are accused of killing dozens of unarmed civilians in the Democratic republic of Congo with “indiscriminate shelling of Kinshasa suburbs” in an Amnesty International open letter to Presidents Robert Mugabe and Nelson Mandela. Pierre San, the secretary general of Amnesty International, has written an open […]

Sechaba ka’Nkosi A controversial Northern Cape clergyman officially represented the province’s Department of Housing and Local Government at state expense, despite his shady background and the fact he was not an employee of the provincial administration. The Reverend Jacob Phenyeke was given a hired car to use for three days by MEC Pakes Dikgetsi in […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Cape Town | Friday 11.00PM. JOMO Cosmos advanced to the quarter-finals of the Rothmans Cup on the away goals rule when they came from behind to equalise against Santos in a hard 1-1 draw played at the Athlone Stadium in Cape Town on Friday night. Santos opened the score in the 65th minute […]

Suzy Bell On show in Durban When the entire Playhouse Dance Company was retrenched at the end of March this year, our Durban dancers were reeling with the rude shock. But instead of whingeing, Mark Hawkins, the ballsy former artistic director of the Playhouse Company, founded The Fantastic Flying Fish Dance Company, one of the […]

money Chiara Carter Jailed Vlakplaas commander Eugene de Kock has been approached to provide information about the missing millions squirrelled away in apartheid-era slush funds. An investigation is under way into claims that a unit set up to find the missing money has itself been misusing state funds. The National Intelligence Agency’s (NIA)request to De […]

Nicholas Dawes Live in Cape Town Amampondo leader Dizu Plaatjies is one of the more popular teachers at the University of Cape Town’s College of Music, where he teaches African instruments and dance. The role is not one he sheds easily, and when “Madiba’s favourite band” played at the Drum Cafe in Gardens last Saturday, […]

Martin Thorpe Soccer Arsenal and Manchester United stepped into line last week by agreeing to discontinue talks with the proposed Super League and seek change to Europe’s club competitions through official channels. All 20 Premiership clubs agreed the same rules after meeting to hear Gerhard Aigner, United European Football Association’s (Uefa) general secretary, assure them […]

In terms of human development, South Africa ranks third in sub-Saharan Africa, writes Ann Eveleth South Africa jumped one point on the global development scale in the first year of democracy, according to a United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) report released this week. The UNDP Human Development Report 1998 ranks South Africa 89th out of […]

Peter Makurube Kora awards The All Africa Kora Music Awards have come and gone with as much fanfare as a meeting of tannies sharing koeksisters and a bit of gesels en skinner. Hell, this is supposed to be the best thing on the continent. Expectations are high among the citizens of Africa and each time […]