Jacques Magliolo British Minister of Trade and Industry Heseltine’s recent visit to South Africa was more than a welcome back to the Commonwealth. Among his entourage were Commonwealth Development Corporation (CDC) representatives, whose plegde to invest in the new South Africa seemed to go unnoticed. Their commitment does not lie in money or investment of […]
Louise Flanagan and Chandre Gould SEVERAL askaris have died in mysterious circumstances — raising the possibility they are being murdered to stop further exposure of hit squad activities. Former Vlakplaas commander Colonel Eugene de Kock, currently facing murder and gun-running charges, is alleged to have killed askari Brian Ngqulunga, shot dead during the Harms Commission […]
Tenant farming communities are being ignored in the land- reform process. This could prove disastrous for the government, warns Dave Husy of the Farmworkers’ Research and Resource Project RECENTLY 7 000 farm tenants and workers downed tools and took to the streets of traditionally ultra-conservative Piet Retief, marching through the town to present a memorandum […]
Television Sophie Perryer WE might have made the giant leap of faith into the new South Africa, but it was on everyone’s lips this week that the sins of the past should not be forgotten. While opposing members of the government debated the formation of a Truth and Reconciliation Commission, artist William Kentridge translated his […]
Weekly Mail Reporter A SINGLE death last week represents the lowest death toll from “political violence” recorded by the Human Rights Committee in the PWV since February last year. The HRC said that for the week ending last Tuesday it had recorded one death and one injury in the PWV: the death of a white […]
TWO Diepkloof policemen were arrested and convicted last year for theft of parts from cars stored at the vehicle pound and police were currently investigating other cases allegedly involving unit staff, Lieutenant-Colonel Joseph Ngobeni, media liaison officer for the SAPS in Soweto said this week. ”We cannot rule out the possibility that members of the […]
POLICE have arrested two men and seized an AK47 after gunmen fired on a minibus ferrying children to a Heidelberg volkskool early yester-day morning. A bus from the same school came under a similar attack earlier this year. A search was launched after the minibus, which was picking up schoolchildren at a Rooikraal smallholding near […]
The president throws a thank you party for ‘struggle’ veterans and over 1 000 guests from around the world turn up, writes Sibusiso Nxumalo
WHEN General Roy During (59) disclosed the existence of a hit-squad within his own force, it reflected the deep chasm that had opened between himself and his colleagues during his reign as KZP commissioner. An “outsider” in the force, During was more comfortable with the policemen of the new South Africa than with those trapped […]
Johannesburg Prison inmates who have tested HIV-positive are stigmatised, abused and denied rights granted to other prisoners, they told Philippa Garson ‘IT’S like you’re a snake that someone caught,” says “Ben”, “a snake that everyone comes to look at.” He’s struggling to find the right words to describe what it feels like to be HIV-positive […]