"If you love life, then it's the field for you. It will lead you, as it led me, because I love people, and I care about the quality of what they do," said Elizabeth Sneddon, South Africa's first speech and drama professor, who died on Thursday at the age of 98. Sneddon, who never married, died at her home in Durban, a local radio station reported.
'Literary gent' hits backDrew Forrest painfully exposes his colonial cultural cringe when he calls me an "Oxford-trained literary gent" (June 30). Then he shadow-boxes...
Revealed: Bleek HoaxIt appears that the hallowed Bleek records, housed at the University of Cape Town (UCT), could be an elaborate hoax perpetrated by...
Libel? It happened!The South African Zionist Federation angrily slates as "libellous" Khadija Magardie's reference to Israeli soldiers roughing up Palestinian workers at checkpoints and...
Erwin not against EIAsFiona Macleod's "Mbeki joins assault on green laws" (August 4) and last week's letter from Richard Worthington, "Too red to see...
DA is getting strongerIn her analysis of the 2006 local election results (March 3), Vicki Robinson reached the premature conclusion that support for the...
Mindless vilificationThe opprobrium heaped on Ronnie Kasrils by the Zionist lobby (Letters, September 8) has a lengthy pedigree. Writing in 1970s Britain, Labour MP...