Veteran journalist RAMPHOLO MOLEFHE takes a long hard look at journalism in Botswana. In his frank diagnosis he indentifies a number of ailments that assail the press.

The passing of Workers' Day on May 1, and Press freedom Day two days later without much fanfare should have raised questions about the state of journalism, which is inextricably tied to that of labour in general.

The last Republican and first Jewish Queens District Attorney, Nat Hentel, right, shaking hands with City Councilman Sid Lazar in 1970. (courtesy of the QJHS)

The report, that the South African writer, Henrietta Rose-Innes has won this year's £10,000 Caine prize, for the best short story in English by an African writer, in the society pages of The New Times, a daily news-paper, was indeed good news.

The vampire couldn’t have dug her way out of the grave even if she had wanted to because she was upside down. That’s the way they bury vampires in Plymouth, according to the new book, Weird Massachusetts .