Ronald Suresh Roberts argues that those lawyers who subordinated their moral obligations to an apartheid legislature should be held accountable.
Mark Lamport-Stokes: Squash Scottish squash player Martin Heath, currently campaigning in this country for the first time, believes that the South African men’s game is – in sum – greater than its individual parts. He feels that the country’s top players, despite possessing the talent and fitness required in the professional arena, still have a […]
sea The South Africa Chamber for Agricultural Development in Africa (Sacada) should consider an addition to its name and logo: wildlife. Originally, the Freedom Front-affiliated group had made boosting Africa’s food security and food production its motto. But some of its people in Niassa salivate when describing the province’s abundant wildlife. It is only a […]
Andrew Worsdale: Cinema Film director Cedric Sundstrom is probably best known as the director of Cannon schlock during the tax-driven South African movie boom of the mid-1980s, having helmed titles like American Ninja III and IV. He candidly admits that ”I might be regarded by some people as a sell-out for going from making my […]
The charges have been dropped, but police believe they had a rape case – against three New Zealand rugby players, reports Carina le Grange A KwaZulu-Natal police investigator said on New Zealand television last week that he believed justice had not been done in the case involving the alleged rape of a Durban woman by […]
David Beresford A string of prosecutions is being prepared in connection with the spreading scandal over the ”can-ned” hunting of lion and other big game in Northern Province. The police Endangered Species Protection Unit and special investigators for the provincial government have opened 39 dossiers arising from the scandal. Another 90 cases are being investigated. […]
THURSDAY, 4.30PM IN an effort to ease the trauma of reporting rape, Welfare Minister Geraldine Fraser-Moleketi on Thursday unveiled a “rape crisis kit” to be made available at rural police stations and clinics. The kit contains disposable underwear, a blanket, toiletries, a pain-killer and telephone numbers for rape councillors, Fraser-Moleketi said in Pretoria. “It also […]
THURSDAY, 1.30PM: A 22-MAN Congo national soccer squad arrived in the country on Wednesday. Congo will play against Bafana Bafana in a make-or-break World Cup qualifying match at FNB Stadium on Saturday. The Congolese embassy in South Africa took the players and their officials to a Sandton hotel after they rejected transport provided and the […]
US SCRAPS MOZ DEBT THE United States has written off $8-million of Mozambique’s debt, two-thirds of the total to have been repaid by mid-1999, the US embassy in Maputo said on Thursday. An agreement formalising the move was signed on Wednesday by Bank of Mozambique Governor Adriano Maleiane and Michael McKinley, the US embassy’s charge […]
THURSDAY, 1.30PM: OLYMPIC 800m silver medallist Hezekiel Sepeng made a sensational comeback when he won the 800m and clocked his second best time in 1min 43,44sec at the Grand Prix meeting in Zurich on Wednesday night. Sepeng, who was reduced to running in the B team, said he wants people to see that he is […]