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Xingwana’s stance on porn

The brouhaha over Arts & Culture Minister Lulu Xingwana stance against what she perceived to be pornographic art exposes the danger of interest.

GALLERY: A school in mourning

Pupils from Jules High school in Jeppe, Johannesburg, came to lay flowers at the scene of the Jub Jub drag race crash. Four of their schoolmates were killed in the accident.

Nothing soft about the naked truth

2010-03-07 10:00

HAVE you ever entered an adult store? Have you flicked your remote control to late-night soft porn on television? Surfed an adult website?

Crying wolf the only discernable plot

2010-02-28 13:00

IT must be something in the water, but every time ANC leaders get into trouble about something, they shout “Plot!”.

Why Cosatu is wrong this time

2010-02-21 13:00

COSATU is wrong about the budget. It is a deeply pro-poor budget with very little good news for business, the middle-classes or the wealthy.

Vavi disappointed with budget

Fifa ticket model kills fans’ spirit

2010-01-19 10:45

THIS week’s announcement of poor World Cup ticket sales in South Africa is a clear indication that Fifa and the Local Organising Committee (LOC) have to urgently revisit the sales model for locals.

2010

2009-12-20 14:00

So what does 2010 hold? The year is already short-hand for football. And it would take a hard heart not to be excited by the prospect of hosting a World Cup.

This is Africa’s time. Let’s use it

2009-12-06 14:00

AFTER the success that was the 2010 World Cup Draw in Cape Town on Friday there shouldn’t be any doubting Thomases left.

Global climate change is real

2009-12-13 14:00

TWO degrees Celsius. It seems a tiny figure. But at the moment it is an insurmountable obstacle.

We can't wait

2009-11-22 14:00

This week has marked yet another milestone on the road to the 2010 Fifa World Cup next June when the last of the 32 nations qualified for the event.

Neither a spook nor a peacemaker be

2009-11-15 14:00

President Jacob Zuma’s greatest assets during the liberation struggle and the negotiations to end apartheid are proving to be his biggest liabilities as president.

Boards, not comrades run state companies

2009-11-08 14:00

Another week. Another parastatal. Another race war. Has Eskom chief executive Jacob Maroga been fired or not?

Step forward, President Malema

2009-11-01 14:00

Never mind the question of whether ANC Youth League president Julius Malema will become president one day. He is already de facto president.

Bafana Bafana get fouled at every turn

2010-02-28 13:00

WHAT a balls-up! We are spending just more than R180?billion on improving infrastructure for the World Cup, but our national squad, in whose performance we are invested, doesn’t have two tickeys to rub together.

Lifestyle audits are no panacea

2010-02-21 13:00

THE call by trade union federation Cosatu for an audit of the lavish lifestyles of ANC leaders in the party and government is a double-edged sword. If it does not go ahead it will expose the liberation’s movement unwillingness to fight corruption.

Haiti needs care, not crass criticism

2010-01-19 11:30

WHEN the news broke of a massive earthquake hitting Haiti earlier this week, many people wondered, not for the first time, why disaster seems to disproportionately befall this poor Caribbean country.

2009

2009-12-20 14:00

The most polite way to describe 2009 would be ... eventful. We have been through an election, the inauguration of President Jacob Zuma, the installation of a new government, an exciting World Cup draw, an international athletics saga, bull-fighting and juju.