The mess the DA is trying to extricate itself from in Cape Town has highlighted a key point: it is not half as good as it claims to be.
It could be argued that Dik Abed, who died in the Netherlands on Friday, was one of the biggest casualties of the “D’Oliveira Affair” in 1968.
The goings-on in the City of Cape Town can be summed up in a wonderfully expressive Afrikaans saying: “Bo bont, onder stront. ”
The fact is so much that should have been done has not been done. So many promises have been made and glibly broken.
Only he will know what possessed him to attack the ANC veterans and stalwarts.
Philip Kgosana, who died last week, was propelled into the limelight at the age of 23 when he led a march of 30 000 in 1960, writes Dougie Oakes
As a lawyer, Essa Moosa shone like a beacon through some of the bleakest times in the history of the fight against apartheid.
OUR conversation switches suddenly from the 350th anniversary commemoration of the Castle of Good Hope to a tiny island off the coast of the west African state of ...
“UNLESS you take control of your destiny, you will have no destiny. ” ...
IT WAS often said of Nelson Mandela that few of the iconic figures of the 20th century, including even the great Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi and Martin Luther King ...
SOUTH AFRICANS will be enormously proud of Team South Africa’s medals haul at the Rio Olympics, which ended yesterday.
I ALWAYS choose my words carefully – sometimes too carefully, I guess. So when, in a Cape Times 140th anniversary article on rugby on Wednesday, I described SA Cup ...
THOSE who are distributing social media petitions calling for a stop to “quotas in rugby” are basing their campaigns on the premise that black people have never ...
On Monday, we carried a front-page photograph of panic-stricken chaos, in which dozens of mainly young people are seen scrambling to avoid bullets during a shoot-out ...
DORKAY House, Johannesburg: On a day in the mid-1970s, two musicians from Cape Town – Mervyn Africa and Russell Herman – are locked in deep conversation with Steve ...
EVERYONE with a connection to District Six has a District Six story to tell.
THIS is a story about memory, about coming to terms with the past, about righting wrongs – and, most of all, about how the simple act of acknowledgement can heal ...
IF YOU want to understand what’s really going on in the Middle East, start by removing the myth of organised terrorism.
As the 16 Days of Activism for No Violence Against Women and Children draws to a close, The Salvation Army has called for an end to the cultural practice of ukuthwala ...
I have convened, starting today and continuing tomorrow in Pretoria, the first “Science Forum South Africa”.
IN A PAMPHLET entitled “What employers and workers need to know about employment equity”, the Department of Labour says: “The purpose of the Act is to remove unfair ...
OFFICIALS of the International Association of Athletics Federations ought to be hanging their heads in shame following the disclosure of one of the biggest ever ...
What is it that Jacob Zuma cannot or refuses to understand about our Constitution?
ON OCTOBER 6, UCT responded to a renewed demand to stop the practice of using outsourced labour with a rebuff that reeked of smugness – and of a “take it or leave ...