February 2002

It’s time to go, Mr Mugabe

IT is a startling thought that in his fierce efforts to preserve power, Zimbabwe’s President Robert Mugabe is galvanised not so much by an appetite for domination...

The war on our children

It is a tormented society indeed in which the rape of a child does not constitute the contemptible exception. Many such cases barely register in the column...

Following St Augustine

IN his Confessions, St Augustine narrates the personal story of how his life of sensual pleasure and intellectual pride left him spiritually empty.

Organ donor hero

IT is not every week that The Southern Cross finds itself in the happy position of being able to publish genuinely good news (as opposed to the...