Controversial MEC proves too much for one of her top officials, writes Andy Duffy The head of education in the North West province has quit his post in protest against alleged nepotism by the provincial education MEC, who handed out plum jobs to members of her family. Gulam-Husien Mayet quietly stepped down as provincial education […]

Gustav Thiel The Nederduitse Gerefor-meerde Kerk (NGK) , once again under pressure from its world body to repudiate apartheid, continues to find biblical justification for the separation of races. Although the NGK apologised in 1990 at its annual synod for as its moderator Doctor Freek Swanepoel puts it those who were hurt by apartheid and […]

Stephen Gray : Unspoilt places They first appear, like sentinels, on the dirt roads north of Calvinia in the Northern Cape. Then up over the salt pans, en route to the Orange River at Upington, there is the occasional specimen, linking the sky to the dry, dusty, arid landscape. Keep on the R27 surely South […]

the wild South Africas khoikhoi are not extinct, as popular belief would have it, but the languages that sustain them in a harsh existence are dying Eddie Koch and Siven Maslamoney On South Africas lonely frontier with Namibia, where the Orange River meanders through stony mountains and across the ochre sands of the Kalahari, live […]

Carole JL Collins and Steve Askin So he finally kicked the bucket! Zaires former despot Mobutu Sese Seko Kuku Ngbendu Wa Za Banga (the cock who goes from conquest to conquest leaving fire in his wake), one of the worlds quintessential symbols of excess and venal corruption for the past three decades, has finally departed […]

A controversial poster campaign uses sex to sell a classified newspaper, writes Swapna Prabhakaran They appeared overnight: a series of posters on lamp-posts along major roads in Gauteng, inviting people to Get laid or Swop the wife. Some were advertisements for Huge Organs and other highly suggestive products. Cars slowed down and drivers stared. The […]

Young Afrikaners swing to the right or to Roelf as racial incidents rise, writes Gustav Thiel Student leaders at Afrikaans universities across the country say the days of National Party domination of campus politics are over. Both the Freedom Front (FF) and Roelf Meyers New Movement Process (NMP) are gaining ground at Potchefstroom, Stellenbosch, Orange […]

Sechaba kaNkosi The war of words on the future of the National Economic Development and Labour Council (Nedlac) took another turn this week when it entered the fray, angrily dismissing calls for its review as naive, misdirected and one-sided. Nedlac officials argued that the debate should not be about whether it can or cannot deliver […]

Gustav Thiel African National Congress MP Abdul Ganie Mohammed was robbed of more than R70 000 in August 1995 at the Carousel entertainment complex outside Pretoria. He says it was a simple case of robbery, but the prostitute and her husband who appeared in court this week on charges of robbing him claim he tried […]