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Cape Town 'Shoot to kill! Kill the Boer, the farmer! Kill the Boer, the farmer! Brrrr! Pah! Pah!' These were the words chanted in fine voice by Julius Malema to [...]

Sixty-eight years ago, when I was four, my Scottish father and English mother took me from London to South Africa, to a seaside town 20 miles south of Cape Town [...]

Cape Town Last Sunday, when South Africa beat Wales to go through to the rugby World Cup final against England, was the last day of a black week in South [...]

'Rhodes must fall!' shouted angry black students at the University of Cape Town. The problem is--and it is the profoundest problem of race relations--they were also demonstrating by their every [...]

Cape Town I can see the progress of Britain better than you because I don't live there. I did for a while as a young adult, from 1972 to 1982, [...]

The sun set on the 20th century more than four years ago but you can still see a blood-red glow on the horizon. The century that saw unprecedented technological progress [...]

Cape Town The day after the election in Zimbabwe, the Cape Times (of Cape Town) carried a front-page story on the South African government's new policy to 'turn the tide [...]

Is Osama bin Laden left-wing or right-wing? How about Robert Mugabe? Who has a more left-wing approach to women's sexuality: Pope John Paul or Hustler magazine? Consider Fidel Castro. He [...]

Jews cannot spit any more because they used up all their saliva spitting at Jesus. Chinese women have horizontal vaginas. Africans have small brains, huge genitals and uncontrollable sexual appetites. [...]

The thoughts of Richard Dawkins, the atheist, and Paul Johnson, the Christian, lie on my bookshelves. I love the writings of both men. Both have changed the way I view [...]

Cape Town Heart of Darkness has claim to be the most famous novel of the 20th century. Conrad, whose writing is often boring, often obscure, but often filled with passages [...]

Cape Town Anyone who wants to understand the inner workings of South Africa should pay careful attention to a speech made by President Mbeki at an official funeral in the [...]

Cape Town A SERIES of terrorist bomb blasts across South Africa, one of which killed a woman in Soweto, has rubbed a wound of resentment between Africans and Afrikaners. This [...]

Johannesburg WHEN an African arrives in Europe for the first time, he notices that there are no lions about. This is most unnatural and disturbing. Lions ranged through Europe for [...]

THE Earth's climate is changing in a dramatic way, with immense danger for man and the natural systems that sustain him. This was the frightening message broadcast to us by [...]

Cape Town IN South Africa the news is so terrible and the response of our leaders so contemptuous and inept that something close to despair is seeping through the land. [...]

From Andrew Kenny Sir: A.N. Wilson's attack on my Hiroshima article (Letters, 6 August) indicates not only complete ignorance about radiation, not only an approach to history based on guesses [...]

From Andrew Kenny Sir: Mr Denis Mollison, attacking my article of 28 May, is quite wrong when he says that DDT no longer works against malaria-bearing mosquitoes (Letters, 4 June). [...]