OVER the past month there have been increasingly disturbing signs that political tension is reaching boiling point in some parts of the country in the run-up the general election and it is time for maturity and cool heads to prevail to ensure this does not bubble over into violence. No one could ever accuse ANC Youth League president Julius Malema of being either mature or of having a cool head. On the contrary, this not-so-youthful acolyte of ANC president Jacob Zuma is a loose cannon who, with his inflammatory rhetoric and populist claptrap, has done his party irreparable harm and continues to do so virtually every time he opens his mouth....

Living Large, with Charmain Naidoo

LAST Sunday, I started a programme which promises me super health in six short weeks. All I have to do is cut out eating animals and their fat, and load up on lentils and beans and whole grains like oats, bulgur wheat, quinoa, rice and organic vegetables....

Weekend Window, with Helen Crooks

IT ALL started with a trickle of water. Which rapidly became a flood. And the bathroom became a walk-in shower. I had always wanted a wet room but by design, not accident....

Thabisi Hoeane

WHAT we have all been dreading and should do something about – political violence – seems to be rearing its ugly head in the lead-up to the elections. This is especially so with respect to KwaZulu Natal where it is alleged that both IFP and ANC supporters have been killed and injured. How pathetic that it is happening in a province which in the past was literally awash with the blood of victims of political violence....

Wyndham Hartley

ANC president Jacob Zuma has defiantly insisted that he will remain his party‘s candidate for the presidency. This in spite of the fact that he is set down to finally face his criminal charges on August 28. His argument is that should he withdraw from the race for the top job in the country then that would be tantamount to an admission of guilt....