Julian Drew Swimming The pool which was the final staging post for Penny Heyns before her date with Olympic destiny again proved something of an omen for the double Olympic champion. After a lacklustre season which had already seen her talk about the possibility of failure at January’s Perth world championships, Heyns returned to the […]

The Investors’ Conference into the Wild Coast Development unveiled R12-billion worth of new projects but critics argue only a chosen few will benefit, writes Craig Bishop `The Eastern Cape development train is in motion – don’t be left behind,” was the advice given by President Nelson Mandela to more than 500 delegates at last weekend’s […]

The timing of Kenya’s elections, called this week, says much about Daniel arap Moi’s intent. Kenya’s aging president has left the ballot until the last minute, December 29, just two days before the constitutional deadline for an election. It will be held during the Christmas holidays when large numbers of city dwellers, who tend to […]

Certain churches have agreed to restore land rights, but some wonder whether they will uphold this decision, Ann Eveleth reports In 1854 Sir George Cathcart told the Duke of Newcastle that portions of Eastern Cape mission land should be sub-divided for cultivation “as the native residents become gradually fit for it”. This statement, so evocative […]

Gustav Thiel The South African Rugby Football Union’s newly appointed communications manager Anthony MacKaizer wants to resurrect Louis Luyt. No, Luyt hasn’t died, but his image has taken a battering with bothersome nepotism scandals and frequent run-ins with the Minister of Sport and Recreation, Steve Tshwete. MacKaizer will try to show in Luyt’s last two […]

Ann Eveleth A Northern Cape pastor evicted 11 relatives – including two septuagenarian female cousins – from the only home they had ever known late last month after they fell behind on their rent in the midst of an ownership dispute. The farm Uitkomst has been in the Jansen family for more than a century, […]

What with Christmas only six weeks away and the new “Unintel Inside” postal services in full delay mode, I thought it might be prudent to spend this and the next column getting in a few early suggestions for ideal Yuletide gifts. Here they are, a list of what I think are offbeat but also very […]

Andrew Muchineripi Soccer The constant demands of many Bafana Bafana supporters are finally going to be met when the national team play a friendly against Germany at the Rhein Stadium in Dusseldorf on Saturday. But it is by accident rather than design that coach Clive Barker will send out a dramatically-altered team for the biggest […]

Peta Thornycroft Glen Goosen, former director of investigations at the truth commission, has formally complained about a programme broadcast on SAfm last week which contained an interview with his former boss, Dumisa Ntsebeza. In the programme, TRC in Review, Ntsebeza accused Goosen of being part of an incompetent investigation and suggested race played a part […]

Lorraine Pace It should have been a media coup. A case that has grabbed print headlines internationally and been beamed to television screens worldwide was due to set a Web precedent last Monday. But a minute before the decision was to be issued, the Web service provider had a power failure. Ironically, this resulted in […]