Felleng Sekhas recent appointment as chair of the Independent Broadcasting Authority could give it direction. Ferial Haffajee interviews her Youre 29 years old. Are people fixated with your age? Ive just turned 30, actually. No, not really. The only time my age became an issue was in the media. What qualifies you for the hot-seat […]

Andy Duffy Relations between the National Party and the African National Congress in the Western Cape began to thaw in the office of Premier Hernus Kriel this week. The provincial NP leader met Ebrahim Rasool, leader of the ANC in the provincial legislature, on Tuesday and, among other issues, discussed ways of preventing the ANCs […]

The labour department is determined to meet the jobs challenge, despite battles over strategy, Sipho Pityana tells Madeleine Wackernagel On a hot Friday afternoon in Pretoria most civil servants would be itching to escape for the weekend, but not Sipho Pityana. Cool in his air-conditioned office, the director general of labour was in no hurry […]

Paul Wilson : Soccer Glenn Hoddle believes a result in Rome on Saturday will confirm the impression of the last couple of years at international level and the last couple of weeks in club competitions that English football is beginning to be respected throughout Europe. I think something has grown over the last two years, […]

At least 10 people have been assassinated in a reign of terror by a union allegedly linked to the UDM, writes Sechaba kaNkosi Members of the newly formed United Democratic Movement (UDM) and controversial mining union Mouthpeace Workers Union have been implicated in a reign of terror at Anglo American Platinum (Amplats) mine hostels in […]

Andrew Spencer : Golf There is little doubt in the minds of those at the Japanese motor company who have stacked their yen behind the World Matchplay Championship at Wentworth this weekend that the man to bring their event out of the doldrums and back into golfs big league is Ernie Els. This Friday, the […]

Hazel Friedman People dont understand the role of curator, particularly the intellectual role, says Okwui Enwezor, the Nigerian- born New-York-based critic and curator, now artistic director of the 1997 Johannesburg Biennale. The curator today is not an administrator as in previous years. He or she is more critically engaged with the subject matter, more willing […]

Maria McCloy Last week a Johannesburg bus was used for more than just transporting people around town, but was instead transformed into a new type of interactive advertising campaign. As the open-top bus bedecked with balloons wound through Johannesburgs streets, teenagers danced to Skeem and ODa Meesta who played the latest kwaito and RnB sounds […]

Brenda Atkinson For the past few months, Africus Institute of Contemporary Art director Bongi Dhlomo has had a favourite saying: The light at the end of the tunnel is not an oncoming train. While the fate of the second Johannesburg Biennale has at times seemed uncertain due to distinctly anaemic local funding contributions, the past […]

With government finances under pressure, the ANC is looking for ways to shift the debt burden, write Mungo Soggot and Madeleine Wackernagel The African National Congress has recruited consultants to find a way round the mounting public debt problem in a bid to free up government finances. Professor Peter le Roux of the University of […]