THE ANGELLA JOHNSON INTERVIEW YOU must remember Ian Smith. Ian who? I hear you ask. Who could forget the obdurate, dour leader of the Rhodesian government, with his skein of black hair parted perilously close to the right ear? The man who tried to hold up the march of history by leading his country through […]
FRIDAY, 4.30PM A TEENAGER was mauled by Kruger National Park lions on Wednesday night, the fifth person to be killed by lions in the park in the past week. Adam Chauke, 18, was one of 11 Mozambicans who attempted to enter South Africa illegally by walking through the park. They were scattered by a herd […]
The bottle of brown sludge handed to Dr Linda Makwatini, the adviser to Minister of Mineral and Energy Affairs Penuell Maduna, in Parliament earlier this month went almost unnoticed. It came from a mining town and was brought to the centre of power by a range of environmental organisations. The contents were highly contaminated and […]
Chris Gordon WITH two weeks to go before the United Nations slaps crippling sanctions on Jonas Savimbi’s Unita movement, UN peace monitors, Savimbi and the Angolan government are openly warning the country should prepare for war. Diplomats in Luanda said in the last week that the peace process is on the edge and war is […]
Ann Eveleth THE Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s chief investigator in the Eastern Cape has quit amid allegations that his team failed to deliver any significant research on apartheid-era atrocities in the province. Loyiso Mpumlawana was suspended on full pay in April pending a disciplinary inquiry into claims that he had failed to manage the unit […]
Mukoni T Ratshitanga A ZIMBABWEAN woman was arrested three times within an hour in Johannesburg this week as an illegal immigrant – even though she was legally in the country. Roseanna T (39), who works in a hotel shop in Mutare, eastern Zimbabwe, says the first two times she was released after bribing the police; […]
Gangsterism and clan rivalry are only two of the factors contributing to the wave of crime which has struck a small area in the Eastern Cape, writes Craig Bishop WHEN 45-year-old truck driver Koko Syoko set off from Molteno in the north of the Eastern Cape last week, he had little idea of the precautions […]
It is paradoxical that the present South African authorities in this case Denel and its defenders in the Government of National Unity find themselves on the back foot on this issue (Denel, arms and the law, July 25 to 31). Quite rightly, the media has, by and large, taken issue with the authorities on their […]
De Klerk’s failure to admit moral responsibility for apartheid sins fails all of us, argues Andre du Toit SHOULD Archbishop Desmond Tutu have known better than to expect FW de Klerk, as National Party leader, to accept political responsibility for apartheid’s dirty war? According to press reports in May, Tutu had been close to tears, […]
STEPHEN Mulholland (Letters, July 25 to 31) quotes an internal report critical of my editorship of The Cape Times. As a general comment, I find much of the editorial/managerial breast-beating about most newspapers undoubtedly blemished pasts tedious. I include my editorship as blemisheed because I know that though we got in the odd blow most […]