So Robert Mugabe is still here. He is still running Zimbabwe, he is still buying suits in Hong Kong. He is still causing his country misery, and his so-called war vets are still acting like war criminals. But one thing is new: our government has adop...
Is SA the next Zimbabwe? Of late I must admit this has needled me quite a bit and I'm sure this question has crossed the minds of fellow South Africans.
There are those who insist this will never happen. This school of thought is based on the fact t...
I sense the coming day's density around midnight, and try to pull out. A late text that my work is overwhelming -- I must stay in cyberspace tomorrow, wrestling invisible work giants. I am drawn to and repelled by the meeting, menisci kissing before ...
By Jazmin Acuna and Kindiza Ngubeni
Violence in society is like a crack in a mirror. The crack distorts the image of us, and we become ambiguous. Un-unified. Like the mirror's crack, violence destroys the fabric that unites people, thus eliminatin...
By Joanne Sage
The 2010 Fifa World Cup is in its final stage and the excitement in Southern Africa is still palpable even in Zimbabwe where I work as a nurse for Médecins Sans Frontières / Doctors Without Borders (MSF) on an HIV/Aids...
For the sake of all that's sensible, can we stop reporting that South Africa has the greatest level of inequality in the world?
It has become South Africa's biggest cliché, and it crops up in many stories written about the country, even one as b...
I like rugby, no scratch that, I love rugby. I know football is meant to be our thing at the moment, but I really do love rugby. And I love Tendai Mtawarira. If I could adopt him as my brother, I would. I'm not too sure if adoption works that way, ma...
The ultimate "scare-the-shit-out-of them" ride at Fairground SA is the Great Zimbabwe Dipper. It colours, even defines, the entire South African experience.
The Zim Dipper shoots them high with its moment as Africa's breadbasket; it dives into an ...
In 1999 as part of the new draft constitution for Zimbabwe, there was an amendment to replace existing clauses with one to compulsorily acquire land for redistribution without compensation. This was put to the country in a referendum in 2000 and reje...
Many South Africans have been asking this question for a number of years now but when the Scottish Sunday Herald starts making it a featured item then the time has come for us to put the question to ourselves.
The article is by Fred Bridgland, a...
