Yearly Archives: 1994

With a carload of prejudices Charles Leonard recently attended his first hotrod races at the Wembley International Raceway in Johannesburg MY first experience with hotrods not only taught me some of life’s valuable lessons, but it also gave me my first taste of class analysis. As a farmer’s son my father took me along to […]

Chief Mangosuthu Buthelezi’s political power was built on three pillars: homeland patronage, which he has lost; control of the kwaZulu Police, which he is now losing; and a claim to represent Zulu traditionalism and nationalism, which he is in danger of losing. This may explain why he has behaved so badly in recent weeks. His […]

Mondli waka Makhanya FROM Wilmot James’ office in the Cape Town suburb of Rondebosch one can see the gates of the president’s Westbrooke residence. And if one gets there early enough, one can see a procession of ministers and officials exiting from President Nelson Mandela’s legendary early morning meetings. So it is quite apt that […]

Two transvestites, a stripper and a urologist’s secretary were interviewed live on stage last week. Michael Dresden was there CHARLES J FOURIE, the award-winning Afrikaans fringe-close-to-centre playwright and sometime director, is the ringleader of an extraordinary new series of shows at Cape Town’s Long Street Theatre. The format is a live interview, on stage, and […]

A blitz on gay-bashing in the South African Police Services is under way. Behind it are Gay Pride marchers — and the police force itself. Mark Gevisser reports POLICE recruits will soon go through a “diversity” programme to train them in sexual orientation awareness. The South African Police Services career-planning department is currently developing a […]

Justin Pearce MORE than 300 candidates who were trained overseas last year with a view to bringing the South African diplomatic corps into the post-apartheid era are still waiting to take up posts with the Department of Foreign Affairs. This is in spite of the fact that the diplomatic corps has been left understaffed by […]

An Angolan intelligence chief alleges South Africans are still involved in covert support of rebel movement Unita. By Stefaans Brummer South African companies continue to supply Angolan rebel movement Unita with military equipment in contravention of a United Nations ban and South African government policy, claims the Angolan intelligence service. Angolan government armed forces intelligence […]

EDUCATION: Shattered school windows and poor relationships … PWV MEC for education Mary Metcalfe faces a tough task. But she is not daunted. By Gaye Davis SATURDAY morning at Mapetla Secondary School, Soweto. Parents, teachers, pupils and members of community organisations sit in the stifling heat of the cramped classroom. No one bothers to open […]

Archaic technology is hampering police efforts to catch the Cleveland serial killer, reports Wiseman Khuzwayo ARCHAIC computer systems have slowed down the identification of most of the victims of the Cleveland serial killer. And the lack of identification of the victims has hampered the search for the killer. The police have so far managed to […]

Louise Flanagan GETTING Sun king Sol Kerzner to court to face bribery and corruption charges might be more difficult than hitting the jackpot in one of the Sun International (SI) casinos. The attorney general in the former Transkei homeland, Christo Nel, has determinedly chased the SI chairman for four years and he’s not ready to […]