A few years ago the highlight in Dome newspaper was promoting Natal University’s annual rag.No more. The paper’s growing reputation for investigative, controversial journalism was rewarded this week when it was adjudged the Best Student Newspaper of 1997 in the Mail & Guardian/Student Life student media awards. The force behind the paper’s new vibrancy is […]

Art of noise Britain’s Turner Prize, one of the world’s most controversial contemporary art awards, was announced this week. But for once the annual controversy emanated not from the work on show (this year’s winner was a comparatively explicable 15-foot video projection of 26 policemen by Gillian Wearing) but from the behaviour of one of […]

FRIDAY, 12.00NOON: SOUTH African golf star and US Open champion Ernie Els is still in contention for the Johnnie Walker Super Tour and is currently placed third, behind Nick Faldo and Jasper Parnevik after the second round, played in Bangkok, on Thursday. Els, the defending champion, joined Faldo and Parnevik in scoring 1-under 71s to […]

With the ANC’s 50th national conference fast approaching, supporters will be out in force to signal the changing of the guard from Mandela to Mbeki Govan Mbeki fills in a few pieces of the puzzle which constitutes his son, and South Africa’s next president, to David Beresford Govan Mbeki’s voice offers a hint of a […]

Iden Wetherell An unprecedented rebellion by usually docile members of Zimbabwe’s ruling Zanu-PF party and anti-government riots in the capital Harare this week have exposed gaping fissures in the previously monolithic edifice of President Robert Mugabe’s 17-year-old regime. Delegates to a Zanu-PF conference in the eastern city of Mutare refused point blank last Friday to […]

Steve Morris : Rugby It is arguably ironic in the extreme that the return of the Springbok rugby team from their victorious tour of Europe should have both enegendered an armed truce and signalled the departure of the other collection of young men who have done this country so proud. The sight of Minister of […]

FRIDAY, 4.00PM: AFTER three days of talks on the future of their Indian Ocean federation, Comoran separatists and government delegates have yet to agree on anything, apart from a broad offer of autonomy by the government to each of the islands of Grande Comore, Anjouan and Moheli. The Addis Ababa talks, sponsored by the Organsiation […]

FRIDAY, 12.00NOON: SOUTH African soccer coach Clive Barker’s plans were dealt a severe blow when three of his players laid low with stomach bug on Thursday. Midfielders Doctor Khumalo and Dumisani Ngobe and striker Pollen Ndlanya had an easy workout at Thursday’s training session. “We’ll be keeping our fingers crossed for them,” said Barker. Bafana […]

There are still questions over the treatment of illegal immigrants at Lindela camp, writes Andy Duffy Guards at the private deportation camp Lindela had to use batons and dogs to quell a near-riot last week after hundreds of inmates massed to storm the gate. Management at Lindela, which is linked to high-profile African National Congress […]

Andrew Muchineripi : Boxing Welcome Ncita and Sugarboy Malinga could be nicknamed the comeback twins for both are making returns to the ring after long layoffs. Ncita (32) is scheduled to fight Hector Lizaragga, the number one contender for the IBF featherweight title vacated by the British wonderboy Naseem “Prince” Hamed. The bout is set […]