A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away...

OLD concepts, new technology. Algerian terror troops masquerading under the banner of Islam have taken one of the more gruesome lessons of their French former masters to heart.

Madame la Guillotine has been born again.

We've discovered the biggest cause of cancer in laboratory animals

VIRODENE — the supposed Aids wonder drug developed by Pretoria University researcher Olga Visser and cardio-thoracic surgeons Kallie Landauer and Professor Dirk du Plessis — was put on ice by the Medicines Control Counc

In the news today, there's a lot that's not happening...

A SOLITARY fish shot across the huge tank, banked sharply, then screeched to a halt, seeming to peer out through the glass in our direction.

"Piranha," whispered Alan Dunn, editor of the Pretoria News.

South Africa may reverse a trend by being the first country to acknowledge that fathers have rights too

WORKING in the media industry forces one to pay close attention to advertisements. There was one which caught my eye ­ a picture of an incredibly cute little girl.

In retrospect, all of us are wise

BACK in 1980, at the height of that round of student protest, the students at the University of Durban-Westville -- myself included -- were milling around the campus quadrangle saving the world.

It was hot work.

WARNING: This column describes prison conditions in a graphic manner that is likely to offend many people ...

OUR symbol of democracy and human rights, the National Party, this week stood up for the rights of prisoners.

Commissioner of Correctional Services Khulekani Sitole ha

First they came for the Jews and I did not speak out because I was not a Jew. Then they came for the Communists and I did not speak out because I was not a Communist. Then they came for the trade unionists and I did not speak out because I was not a trade unionist.

A loaf of bread, a jug of wine, and thou ... South African style

There is a tide in the affairs of Africa...

IN 1961, the year following his country's independence from Belgium, Patrice Lumumba, first prime minister of the Congo, was assassinated by the CIA.

At the end of the ensuing civil war in 1965, Lumumba's army chief of staff, Mobutu,

The more things change ...

I HAD a real taste of culture shock recently.