Mukoni T Ratshitanga Staff and students from the Soshanguve Technikon Northern Gauteng (TNG) this week picketed outside Pace magazine’s Johannesburg offices in protest against what they called “a media bashing campaign”. They claimed the magazine’s September and October editions branded the institution “a haven for criminals and a campus of terror” and created the impression […]

Swapna Prabhakaran It is no longer compulsory for women in South Africa to “find a man” before having children, as laws governing access to the technology for artificial insemination changed this week. Outdated regulations in the Human Tissue Act have been rewritten in this week’s Government Gazette to allow women to become mothers regardless of […]

The provinces have an impossible choice: retrench teachers or go over budget, writes Andy Duffy Provincial education departments are urging the national government to consider lifting the ban on the forced retrenchment of teachers. The provinces say attempts to cut personnel costs through voluntary retrenchment and redeployment have failed, leaving them little choice but to […]

Peter Hillmore Women make good spies. Maybe because men are putty in their hands, maybe it’s because they are believed to be duplicitous anyway, or perhaps the reason is best left to psychologists. Women have entered the second oldest profession from such diverse areas as Hollywood film sets, smoky French cabaret bars and the playing […]

V.Roger Prabasarkar :Cricket The second Test begins today (Friday) in the small town of Sheikhupura, big enough to stage international cricket but not quite grown-up enough to boast an international hotel. The squad and accompanying entourage will be staying in the beautiful city of Lahore, no more than 25km from the ground but at least […]

Janet Smith Nigerian juju meets Ghanaian highlife meets South African kwaito on M-Net’s foot- stomping new addition to its growing collection of satellite channels today. Channel O, a true babe in the world of music television, ruled over by psychedelic American god MTV, launches on MultiChoice DStv at 7pm on Friday, October 17 for two […]

Steve Morris : gby Two very different contests within the realm of rugby have concentrated the attentions of the followers of the game in this country over the past week; ironically one that has drawn the laager closer and one which promises to open the game out in new directions. Under the several shadows that […]

Julian Drew Soccer Willem Jackson proved to be a revelation on his debut for Bafana Bafana in the friendly international against France on Saturday, but the irony is that had the little-known Pierre Issa been fit, Jackson would probably have been on the bench. “It was disappointing that Pierre was injured because he would have […]

American and French interests contributed to the conflict in Congo (Brazzaville), report Chris Gordon in Luanda and Howard French in Abidjan The Angolan invasion of Congo (Brazzaville), which helped bring down the government of Pascal Lissouba this week, is part of a determined move on a range of fronts to finally break the military power […]