Viva Mangope! Viva Louis Luyt! Viva Rajbansi! The people have spoken!

FOR those of you who have just come in, here's what's been happening. While Kluesener has been running rampant at the World Cup, this country held elections.

"In the beginning the universe was created.

Education is not the filling of a bucket but the starting of a fire.

If you think the African Renaissance is pie in the Ciskei, do the numbers

PRESIDENT Thabo Mbeki has spent the weekend on standby on the off-chance that a trip to Zambia to hammer out a peace plan for the former Zaire will go ahead.

This neighbourhood is starting to look really rough.

Depending on who you ask, the death of Zimbabwe's vice-president Joshua Nkomo is either good news or bad news for the country's leader Robert Mugabe.

It's bad news because a fragile peace in the central and south-western par

I have a friend whose brother knows the man who owns the mule that Sissy Spacek rode in Coalminer's Daughter who told him...

Some of you may have heard the name Craig Shergold. Back in 1987, doctors told seven-year-old Craig that he had cancer.

As time has passed I've come to understand that the true value of Apollo wasn't the rocks, wasn't the data that we brought back.

THERE'S a weird week ahead of us.

'In such ugly times, the only true protest is beauty,' Phil Ochs once said ...

THE Chinese calendar stretches back over several millennia — almost as long as my ancestors measure theirs — and Chinese wisdom reflects this. One of their rules is that if you save someone's life, you become responsible for that life.