Steve Morris : Rugby It is one of those interesting, though probably largely irrelevant statistics, that Free State have not won a Currie Cup since 1976 and a graphic illustration of the swirling tides of the game that they have washed up in Cape Town this weekend as the side to oppose Western Province in […]

Chris Gordon De Beers is holding an internal inquiry following the shooting and robbery of the head of its Angola operations, Ken Kempson, near Lucapa in Lunda Norte. The attack left Kempson badly injured with five bullet wounds, and minus a reported $1,5-million (R7-million) in cash he was to deliver to the De Beers diamond-buying […]

Leading figures in the Motheo scandal are earning consultancy fees from the controversial company, writes Justin Arenstein Despite getting their fingers burnt and losing their jobs for bulldozing the R198- million Motheo rural housing deal through Mpumalanga’s housing board, the central figures in the scheme are still doing business with each other. Sacked Nedcor credit […]

West Johnny Masilela and Sechaba ka’Nkosi President Nelson Mandela’s visit to strife- torn Rustenburg last weekend failed to attract the expected crowds after North West Premier Popo Molefe refused to let Mouthpeace Workers Union president Kaizer Mpiyakhe share his platform. Sources say the union insisted at a meeting with Molefe two weeks ago that it […]

Madeleine Wackernagel The markets were quick to give their verdict on a possible deal between Lonrho and Avmin: shares in holding company Anglovaal and Avmin slumped while Lonrho remained unchanged – going against the trend in a gaining sector. The reason is not hard to find: analysts have seen it all before, only the dance […]

Solly Mapaila, leader of a group sympathetic to Swazi workers, has been declared ‘undesirable’, reports Mukoni T Ratshitanga In a bid to silence sympathisers with his country’s pro-democracy voices, Swaziland’s Minister of Home Affairs Prince Guduza this month declared the South African director of a solidarity group a prohibited person. Swaziland Solidarity Network’s head, Solly […]

Sechaba ka’Nkosi The United Workers’ Union of South Africa (Uwusa), the notorious Inkatha Freedom Party-aligned union founded and funded by the apartheid government during the “total onslaught” of the mid-1980s, will not appear before the truth commission next month when business and labour make their submissions. Uwusa has apparently turned down an invitation from truth […]

William Onyango Thousands of Kenyan teachers who recently embarked on a week-long strike have taken to the streets praising President Nelson Mandela’s government for refusing to sell their leaders hi-tech riot police gear. In the rural Siaya district 500km west of Nairobi, teachers earlier this month marched with placards reading: “Teachers salute Mandela for refusing […]

Andrew Worsdale spoke to independent British film-maker Isaac Julien, who is visiting South Africa Celebrated independent British film-maker Isaac Julien was recently at the Johannesburg Biennale to attend the screenings of Frantz Fanon: Black Skin White Mask, about the black theorist on anti-colonialism. He made the film with Mark Nash, his boyfriend and producer. It’s […]