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/ 2 September 1994
Stefaans Brummer DEPUTY defence minister Ronnie Kasrils this week found himself caught in the middle of tensions between the Northern Cape ANC and the army. ANC VIPs were barred from entering the army’s Lohatla battle-training school, at the centre of a land dispute, when Kasrils and Land Affairs Minister Derek Hanekom went on a fact-finding […]
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/ 2 September 1994
Botswana authorities want to arrest South Africa’s Safety and Security deputy minister, charged with stealing R120 000 and jumping bail. Gaye Davis reports DEPUTY minister of Safety and Security Joe Matthews is a fugitive from justice in Botswana where he is wanted to stand trial on charges of skipping bail and stealing funds in the […]
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/ 2 September 1994
CRICKET: Luke Alfred IN HIS wildest dreams Craig Smith never imagined that he’d become the physiotherapist for the South African cricket team. During our interview at the Westbury Hotel on the Sunday of the Oval Test, Smith admits as much, although he mentions that he always wanted to “specialise in the sports side of things”. […]
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/ 2 September 1994
Paul Stober THE ANC has launched an urgent inquiry into a power struggle between North-West premier Popo Molefe and regional agriculture minister Rocky Malebane-Metsing which has pitched the province into crisis. ANC secretary general Cyril Rama-phosa this week sent a high-powered team to look into a war of allegations and counter-allegations that has erupted between […]
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/ 2 September 1994
Wyatt Earp didn’t start out as a classic Western hero, according to a new film, but he seems to have had a great PRO. Fabius Burger reports THE fuss Hollywood movie magazines are making about the need for new heroes is probably a publicity gimmick for the current spate of neo-Westerns. Director Lawrence Kasdan’s Wyatt […]
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/ 2 September 1994
The government is still funding an elite school set up by Lucas Mangope, writes Paul Stober THE government is spending R12-million a year to subsidise one of Lucas Mangope’s pet projects: a palatial school in Mafikeng that cost an estimated R100-million to build and caters to only 500 pupils, mostly foreign students studying a British […]
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/ 2 September 1994
BASKETBALL: Matlhodi Malope BENDING could not reduce seven-foot basketball star Patrick Ewing’s monstrous height enough to be on the same level as his group of young trainees at the Alexandra All Sports Centre this week. He had to squat for proper eye contact. “Now guys,” he said to the group of eager boys and girls […]
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/ 2 September 1994
Jan Taljaard EUGENE TERRE’BLANCHE and the Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging this weekend celebrate 21 years as the undisputed wild bunch of the right. To celebrate, they are returning to Heidelberg, the small town where the organisation was founded. AWB legend has it that the organisation was formed when seven men, among them Jan Groenewald (who would later […]
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/ 2 September 1994
Mondli waka Makhanya and Chris Louw ALLAN BOESAK is set to relinquish his position as ANC leader in the Western Cape, and will probably be replaced by a cabinet member. A little-known township activist is expected to be elected deputy leader of the province. Elections will take place at the ANC’s Western Cape regional congress, […]
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/ 2 September 1994
Players on both sides have much to prove in Saturday’s Lion Cup final RUGBY: Jon Swift IT IS not wrong to say that Western Province have not had a great season thus far on paper, but they have always looked a better side in reality than the results would indicate. At Ellis Park tomorrow, they […]