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The article focuses on South Africa's fastest growing South African newspaper, the "Daily Sun" and its editor Deon du Plessis. A discussion of the paper's content, which includes sports and local news, circulation, popularity with black readers, history, and successful attempts to market itself to black middle class readers, is presented.

The Mail & Guardian said Friday that it had underestimated ''the depth of anger ignited'' by a cartoon it published last week that depicted the Prophet Muhammad lying on a psychiatrist's couch with a thought bubble over his head that said, ''Other prophets have followers with a sense of humor!'' The weekly said it regretted ''the sense of injury it caused many Muslims.'' The cartoon was by Jonathan Shapiro, known as Zapiro, whose sharp satiric pen has gouged many a politician. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

South Africa was already independent from Britain when I was growing up in Cape Town, but in matters of children's literature, it was still entirely in thrall to colonialism. I was raised on a diet of boarding and ballet schools, sports days and summer hols, of aspiring dancers trudging through rainy London and riding horses over the purple heather of the Scottish Highlands. There were stern Russian dancing masters and flighty French teachers, and -- a particularly British strain that ran through all of this -- a solemn message. If you wanted to be a ballerina or anything else, talent and looks weren't enough. There had to be grit and perseverance too. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The article reports that American bureaucrat Condoleezza Rice's confirmation hearing by the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee concerning the Iraq war was fierce at times, but it was her listing of Zimbabwe as an "outpost of tyranny" that created the real firestorm. While she did not go into specifics, it is clear that the American administration finds the political situation in Zimbabwe, one of Africa's strongest economies, unacceptable. In a statement, Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe called Rice and the American administration "fascists." Many believe Zimbabwe's freedom set the stage for South Africa's move to multiracial democracy in the 1990s.

Presents world business news briefs. Plans of a group of black South African investors, led by Cyril Ramaphosa, to purchase a stake in a newsprint business; Forecast of record sales by Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing, the world's largest supplier of made-to-order computer chips; Details of strike negotiations underway in Chile, with copper producer Codelco; Others.

States that prior to relinguishing power to the elected government in South Africa, F.W. de Klerk made a secret bid to keep the apartheid Government's Cabinet documents confidential for at least 40 years. Stipulation of 30 year embargo on documents; Statements made by de Klerk; Other information.

This article presents the profile of various celebrities who have settled in South Africa. Jerrod Pope has walked the catwalk for top designers in Paris and landed major modelling jobs in Italy, Holland and Japan, but for the last six years, he's enjoyed considerable success living and working in a place that he never anticipated: South Africa. Like the rest of South Africa, the nation's fashion industry seems to have transformed itself overnight. The national drive to recreate and revitalize South Africa has reached new heights in the past couple of years. Foreign and domestic investment are up, property values are skyrocketing and creative fields like design, publishing and filmmaking are booming. Harlem native Judyie Al-Bilali first arrived in South Africa in 2002 as a visiting performing artist from the University of Massachusetts. She worked in Johannesburg and Cape Town, two of South Africa's largest cities, and loved the experience so much that she applied for a fellowship to enable her to return. Encouraged by the university, Al-Bilali launched Brown Paper Studio, a performing arts space where she urged her students to write down their dreams and memories on wrapping paper that covered the walls.

The article reports on the Verreaux's eagle population in South Africa that continue to survive despite the agricultural landscape situation in the region, according to a paper in the journal "The Condor: Ornithological Applications."

Presents news briefs on the worldwide activities of the Catholic Church as of November 13, 1998. Special status given by the United Nations to the Maryknoll Fathers and Brothers and the Maryknoll Sisters; Information on an editorial in `The British Columbia Catholic' paper about the killing of doctors who perform abortions; Report from South Africa's truth commission on the human rights record during the apartheid era.

The anonymous hacker who shook the world of climate science two years ago by posting a trove of stolen e-mails delivered a new batch on Tuesday, stirring up climate-change contrarians a little more than a week before global negotiations on greenhouse gases are to begin in Durban, South Africa. The new e-mails appeared remarkably similar to the ones released two years ago just ahead of a similar conference in Copenhagen. They involved the same scientists and many of the same issues, and some of them carried a similar tone: catty remarks by the scientists, often about papers written by others in the field. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Leading South African scientists challenged the governing party on Monday to break with its deeply flawed record on AIDS and public health, spurring the country's new health minister to say that he and his party shared their diagnosis of systemic problems and were determined to repair them. The decision by the health minister, Dr. Aaron Motsoaledi, to embrace the often withering assessment of his party's failings, laid out in six papers published online Monday by The Lancet, a medical journal based in London, provided a strong signal that the governing party's new leadership intended to shake up a badly managed health system. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

REFUGEES The government has begun shutting down a makeshift refugee camp at the Showgrounds, an athletic field in the border city of Musina. Some 4,000 immigrants, mostly Zimbabweans who braved a dangerous river crossing to escape their troubled homeland, have spent nights in the open area, hoping to be among those given temporary asylum papers. ''The situation at the Showgrounds was simply too unhygienic,'' said a spokeswoman for the Ministry of Home Affairs. She said that beginning Monday, the same asylum applications would be accepted at a nearby military base. But Doctors Without Borders denounced the decision, saying that the refugees now had nowhere to sleep. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The Congress of the People, a new political party sundered from the governing African National Congress, on Tuesday named South Africa's former defense minister, Mosiuoa Lekota, as its president. It was Mr. Lekota who first served what he called ''divorce papers'' on the African National Congress in October, opening the way for the defection of others who were unhappy with the organization that first brought democracy to South Africa. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

A well-known stalwart of the governing African National Congress took steps on Wednesday to break with the party and start another, arguing that the A.N.C. had turned its back on democracy. ''It seems we are serving today divorce papers,'' said Mosiuoa Lekota, who resigned as South Africa's defense minister three weeks ago after leaders of the party forced one of its own, President Thabo Mbeki, to leave office. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The verbal salvos over Zimbabwe's disputed election escalated Thursday, with the government accusing the opposition of treason, South Africa toughening its position by calling for the release of election results and the Zimbabwean opposition demanding that South Africa bow out as the mediator of the political standoff. Zimbabwe's government, in a state-run newspaper, said it had uncovered a plot by the opposition to conspire with Britain to topple President Robert Mugabe, who has led the nation since independence 28 years ago. The paper printed a 2,200-word document -- which British and opposition officials have dismissed as fake -- laying out a plan to ''bring about change at any cost.'' [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Jacob G. Zuma, who heads the country's governing party, the African National Congress, is seeking to convince the Constitutional Court that reams of evidence should be excluded from his trial in August on corruption charges connected with an arms deal. Mr. Zuma, who denies the charges, says the search warrants were vague, overly broad and did not protect his communications with his lawyer. If convicted, Mr. Zuma would be barred from serving as president of South Africa. In court papers, the state says the evidence establishes that Mr. Zuma, above, took hundreds of payments from his financial adviser, Schabir Shaik, and Mr. Shaik's companies. The state says Mr. Zuma did not pay income taxes on much of that money. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

This article reports that Zimbabwe is facing its worst economic crisis since 1980 and is turning to South Africa for much needed aid. Last week, a delegation from Zimbabwe met with South Africa's Finance Minister Trevor Manuel and Reserve Bank Governor Tito Mboweni to request emergency aid for fuel, food and fanning supplies. Although government officials refused to comment on the content of the meeting, South African papers reported over the weekend that Zimbabwe will be granted a loan for hundreds of millions in South African rands.

The article reports that Brooklyn's Danny Simmons Corridor Gallery, in association with Manhattan's Hemingway African Gallery, is currently presenting an art exhibition of works (on sale) by young grade-school students from Kwazulu, Zululand, South Africa. Brian A. Gaisford, owner of the renowned Hemingway African Gallery, founded the noted import emporium in 1975. Gaisford explained how he initially took an interest in the Zulu school, which didn't have even the basics like paper and crayons for its art curriculum, and personally started a tax-deductible charity to raise funds to buy the badly needed art supplies.

A Black woman journalist has been appointed editor of the South Africa's "Mail and Guardian" newspaper, making her the nation's first female editor, and first Black female editor, of a major paper. Ferial Haffajee, 36, will take up her position at the "Mail and Guardian," an investigative, campaigning newspaper born during the height of the anti-apartheid struggle in 1985, on February 1, 2004. Haffajee started her journalistic career at the "Mail and Guardian" in 1991 as a trainee. She has since worked in radio and television journalism, for news agency Inter Press Service news wire and extensively in South Africa's print media.

Looks at efforts by the Eastman Kodak Co. to regain market share in South Africa, after an absence due to apartheid. Departure in 1987, due to agreement to observe sanctions against apartheid; Return in 1994; Miniscule market share, in comparison with pre-1987; Efforts to court black consumer market, and overcome white resentment at the departure.