The truth commission will examine whether judges `dished out death sentences’ to shore up apartheid, writes Swapna Prabhakaran SOME of South Africa’s judges, including one working for the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, will be called before the commission to defend apartheid-era decisions to send hundreds of people to the gallows. The issue of the death […]
Journalists in Somalia have to be wary … before publishing by photocopier. ALEX BELLOS reports from Mogadishu THE press in Britain is often referred to as the fourth estate. In Somalia – where uniquely there has been no government for six years – it is definitely the first. Mogadishu is an unlikely place to have […]
FRIDAY, 12.30PM FORMER British MP Emma Nicholson, who has been sheltering Katiza Cebekhulu, Winnie Madikizela-Mandela’s kidnapping co-accused who was abducted and carried to Zambia to prevent him testifying against Madikizela-Mandela, said this week in London that she is to travel to SA in September and offered an interview to the truth commission. Nicholson, who has […]
FRIDAY, 10.30AM TRANSPORT Minister Mac Maharaj and his Public Enterprises counterpart Stella Sigcau on Thuesday announced a shortlist of three for the position of adviser on the restructuring of parastatal Airports Company. The shortlisted candidates are: SBC Warburg in partnership with accounting and consulting firm Gobodo; Standard Corporate and Merchant Bank with Morgan Stanley and […]
empowerment fronts’ Black security companies have won contracts amid claims of being fronts for white firms, reports Ann Eveleth RAILWAYS parastatal Spoornet is handing a huge slice of lucrative security work to a company linked to contracts currently under investigation by the Office for Serious Economic Offences (Oseo). Spoornet, a subsidiary of Transnet, said this […]
FRIDAY, 5.00PM THE KwaZulu-Natal midlands town of Richmond was tense late this week as the African National Congress and expelled ANC MP Sifiso Nkabinde square up for a local council election on Sunday. Richmond’s ANC mayor of Andrew Ragavaloo said his wife heard several shots during the day but he said he was reassured by […]
ON any scorecard of the death sentence, the late Judge B O’Donovan handed down more death sentences than any of his colleagues. In a three-year period he sent 25 prisoners to be hanged, and in his career he handed down 39 death sentences. On the other hand, one judge, NM McArthur, never sent a single […]
Peta Thornycroft STORIES are emerging about the dying days of Zaire, now the Democratic Republic of Congo, and how South African mercenaries and desperadoes tried to make a quick buck out of the tottering regime of Mobutu Sese Seko. As rebel leader Laurent Kabila’s men prepared their final march on Kinshasa, Mobutu loyalists were in […]
Muting the instruments Previous Grahamstown jazz festivals have usually been followed by one South African musician or another sounding off to the press. In the past, artists have had gripes about pay, conditions and programming. This year, you heard none of that; we can guarantee it. But the post-festival silence doesn’t mean that everything in […]
ATHLETICS:Julian Drew FOR Frits Potgieter it was never a matter of if but rather when he would break into the big time – and that moment arrived somewhat unceremoniously at a low key athletics meeting in Sheffield, England on Tuesday night. Potgieter added more than two metres to his previous personal best of 61.98m in […]