Andrew Muchineripi : Soccer The African Nations Cup, a biennial showdown between the best national soccer teams, comes of age this week with the 21st edition of an event that has grown steadily from humble beginnings. Khartoum, the capital of Sudan, hosted the first tournament, which attracted only three entrants and lasted just seven days […]

Wonder Hlongwa Thandeka Shabalala (16) lies on a stretcher at King Edward VIII Hospital in Durban, with a heavy brown blanket thrown over her body despite the heat. She has travelled all the way from Pietermaritzburg. She is one of hundreds of patients who come for treatment at King Edward and instead either sleep on […]

Attempts at reconciling the ANC’s Gauteng region have failed dismally, writes Sechaba ka’Nkosi Fresh allegations of serious misconduct and abuse of authority hit the inner circles of the African National Congress’s Gauteng region this week, less than two months before the party holds its provincial conference. At the centre of the furore is Safety and […]

When a man’s gotta go … Charl Blignaut ‘You’re late,” barks Eleanor Moore as if she had stepped straight out of a bad movie and into the swish Radio 702 reception area. “Six minutes,” I want to say. “What’s six minutes?” But the powerhouse producer of John Berks’s late afternoon show is already heading down […]

Once upon a time, long before the heady days of El Nino, South African TV drama was as soft as an English muffin and as wet as English weather. The Importance of Being Earnest and Charlie’s Aunt were the primary ingredients of our homemade white bread in the 1970s and 1980s — and you may […]

Stefaans Brummer Evidence against Gauteng Premier Mathole Motshekga mounted this week when it emerged that the United States embassy in Pretoria had serious reservations about his administration of donor money in 1989. The Mail & Guardian earlier reported that the Irish organisation Trocaire, a conduit for European Union donor money, severed links with Motshekga’s National […]

Neil Manthorpe : Cricket He was desperately keen to tour England again, to finish his remarkable career in the land where the game of cricket began and where he would have time to ease an understudy into the job. But now Dave Richardson has gone, just like that. No fuss, no fanfare, no tears. None […]

Ferial Haffajee ‘It’s difficult getting the message through by committee,” says Dominic Ntsele, managing director of ad agency Young & Rubicam. Last year, Ntsele headed a creative team working to highlight the endemic levels of child abuse, rape and battery in the country, ahead of the Men’s March in November, through a high-profile media campaign. […]

Moi Lucy Hannan in Nairobi Dismay at recent political killings overshadowed the opening session of the Kenyan Parliament this week. Both sides of the house stamped, shouted and jeered, and opposition MPs waved placards protesting at “genocide” and “a legacy of killing”. More than 100 people have been killed in Rift Valley province since January […]

R6,7-million Ann Eveleth A South African Airways (SAA) manager found guilty of serious misconduct costing the state airline an estimated R6,7-million was not fired because the SAA employee who presided over his inquiry could not “sleep with the dismissal decision”. This “crisis of conscience” is reported in an internal audit completed by Transnet Group auditors […]