The Angella Johnson Interview Ben du Toit thought he had committed the perfect crime when he had his wife bludgeoned to death in 1992. He had not reckoned on the intensity of her mothers love, or her dogged five-year quest to find the killer of her favoured youngest child. Joyce Donaldson became the mother-in-law from […]

Melvyn Minnaar : Potable pleasures It is the enfant sauvage, if not the fils terrible, of the wine-making business. Of true French nobility with deep historical roots, the Sauvignon Blanc grape has seldom been tamed by the wannabes of the New World vineyards. It either runs wild on them or terrorises them into submission. South […]

From Patagonia to Peoria, from Beijing to Bronkhorstpruit, there was not a dry eye in the global village when Diana, Princess of Wales, was laid to rest last Saturday. Yet how at variance were these outpourings of sentiment with this hard-boiled, market- driven planet at the end of the millennium. Though directed primarily against the […]

Swapna Prabhakaran When a nine-year-old mentally handicapped girl told people she had been raped by her teacher, no one listened until it was too late for the crime to be medically proven. The girl, who attends the Felicitan special school in Brakpan, claims she was raped by a male teacher. It was during the July […]

Gilbert Grandguillaume, an anthropologist and expert on Arab issues, discusses the recent massacres in Algeria with Jean- Pierre Tuquoi Are the reasons for the mounting violence in Algeria to be found in the countrys recent history? There is a historical link, but it has nothing to do with a culturalist approach that sees Algerians primarily […]

Sechaba kaNkosi The battle for the top positions in the Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) began in earnest this week when nominations were made public. A list released by Cosatu shows that despite some dissatisfaction with some members of the executive, they are all likely to be re-elected by the 2 400 delegates […]

FOREIGN AFFAIRS STALWART QUITS FOREIGN affairs director-general Rusty Evans will vacate his post by the end of the year after a 35-year career in the department, Deputy Foreign Affairs Minister Aziz Pahad said on Friday. “Since the elections, Rusty has played a key role in helping us to transform our department and trying to ensure […]

Nkosinathi Biko has marked the 20th anniversary of his fathers death with a TV documentary. Andrew Worsdale reports Twenty years ago, when Steve Bantu Biko died at the hands of security police in Port Elizabeth, his son Nkosinathi was six years old. He says hell never forget the moment he learnt of his fathers death. […]

Tourists are flocking to the Bolivian countryside where the charismatic revolutionary died. Anthony Faiola reports See the very place where legendary guerrilla Ernesto Che Guevara lived and died! Trudge through the mud-covered hillside he himself once climbed! Talk to the peasants who fed and clothed him and his hapless band of communists! And dont miss […]