Yearly Archives: 1994

Farouk Chothia: Durban KWAZULU/NATAL chiefs have received an increased stipend since April in what appears to be a move on the Inkatha Freedom Party’s part to retain their loyalty in the post- election era, it emerged this week. This disclosure comes amid further signs that Zulu King Goodwill Zwelithini is battling to prise chiefs — […]

CRICKET: Jon Swift IT is of crucial interest that the national selectors are at last sticking to their much publicised “horses for courses” theory, one that has not meant much more than a throwaway line at times in the recent past. And equally of note is that the Man of the Match awards in both […]

RUGBY: Jon Swift IT would be well for all concerned to take careful note of the cryptic comment made by national rugby coach Kitch Christie at the end of the tour of Scotland, Wales and Ireland. “We have the basis of the players for the World Cup,” was the way the quietly-spoken Christie laid it […]

Information on outlandish research conducted by a group of companies for the SADF is being revealed. By Eddie Koch and Derek Fleming A NETWORK of companies near Pretoria developed chemical warfare equipment for the South African Defence Force and also conducted secret experiments on animals to test high tech “dum dum” bullets and heat resistant […]

GOLF: Neil Manthorp MORAL outrage and righteous indignation so often accompany our very own Million Dollar Challenge at Sun City every year that we ought to be used to it by now. The trouble is, immediately after the gluttonous mountain of cash in the impoverished former Bophuthatswana, we then have to try and swallow the […]

Star editor Richard Steyn was dismissed in what was an early shot of a new newspaper war. By Weekly Mail Reporters ATHOUGH there has been a furore centred on the ”resignation” of The Star editor-in-chief Richard Steyn, he was in fact fired. Sources close to Argus management say that Steyn was summoned by Argus Newspapers […]

Vusi Khoza and Annie Mapoma HUMAN hands — burnt to ashes and mixed with herbal ingredients — are considered an effective anti-stroke remedy by muti men who use body parts in their practice. This is according to Johannesburg muti shop owner Kessavan Naidoo, a herbalist for 30 years and close observer of traditional healing methods. […]

The death of a key state witness has put the spotlight on inadequacies in the protection programme, writes Nombuyiselo Maloyi A RENEWED call for a radical change in South Africa’s witness protection programme was sounded this week by Brian Currin, director general of Lawyers for Human Rights (LHR), days after the killing of a key […]

African Encounters has moved to Johannesburg from Cape Town, where it received favourable reviews. Ivor Powell takes a different stand AFRICAN Encounters, presented at MuseumAfrica in Newtown under the auspices of the paragovernmental French Institute, is one of those shows that the official representatives of the old colonial governments love to treat us to: seemingly […]