Editorial

The Chiel
Remembering DJW IT was a night for reminiscing when family, friends and colleagues of the late Daily Dispatch editor, Donald James Woods, gathered at the East London Museum earlier this week. The occasion was the opening of a mini-exhibition of...

Laughter banishes the blues
AMERICAN comedians and standup comics went through lean times in the days and weeks after the September 11 terror attacks on the World Trade Centre in New York and the Pentagon in Washington DC. No one was in a mood to laugh as the whole nation w...

BUFFALO BLEAT
Freedom fighter honoured TODAY former Daily Dispatch editor Donald Woods will be honoured posthumously with the Freedom of the City by the Buffalo City municipality alongside fellow exiles President Thabo Mbeki and former Daily Dispatch journalis...

Litmus test
SOUTH Africans are understandably miffed by international currency speculators, foreign investors and overseas politicians who tar this country with the same brush as errant African states, volatile emerging markets and anti-democratic administrat...

Coachless Zambia covets Cup
Football-crazy Zambia's hopes of winning the Africa Cup are fading fast. It has no official coach. Joseph Chanda explains. BARELY a month before Africa's largest soccer championship kicks off, one of the continent's giants, Zambia, is in deep tro...