Tongaat-Hulett is the first company to make submissions to the truth commission, writes Enoch Mthembu T ONGAAT-HULETT, the KwaZulu-Natal sugar giant, has become the first company called to account to the Truth and Reconcilation Commission, after the discovery of an activist’s corpse on its property. The company has handed written submissions to the commission explaining […]
Chris Opperman RICH VERSTER, the former Military Intelligence spy now being debriefed by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, was allegedly a crook who disguised gold and diamond scams as covert activities. Verster is awaiting trial in a British jail on charges of drug smuggling. Transvaal Deputy Attorney General and former prosecutor in the Eugene de […]
This weekend, ANC branches in Gauteng will start the crunch debate on who their new leader will be. By Monday, they should have a clear idea, Wally Mbhele reports WITH the outgoing Gauteng premier Tokyo Sexwale licking his political wounds inflicted on the eve of his resignation from the highest provincial office, two candidates are […]
Andrew Worsdale SO what if you’re a concerned parent who goes out one night and leaves your eight- year-old plugged into cyberspace? Is the child going to be exposed to all the variegations of sins of the flesh and/or revolutionary subversion? If the child is naturally curious, all he has to do is call up […]
FRIDAY, 5.00PM SEVEN senior Johannesburg detectives, including the notorious former head of the Brixton Murder and Robbery squad, Superintendent Charlie Landman, on Friday quit the police to join private security firm Khulani Springbok Patrols. A KSP spokesman and police spokesman Inspector Mark Reynolds confirmed that Landman, three captains from his former unit and three inspectors […]
intervention Gustav Thiel THE outgoing chief censor, Dr Braam Coetzee, believes censorship is about to end in South Africa. The new law enacted last year embodies the principles of democracy and will make the public the guardians of morality, he says. Turning his 17 years as a censor on its head, Coetzee now says he […]
POWER, said Henry Kissinger, is the ultimate aphrodisiac. If that is true, the ideal job for a sex maniac is presumably that of censor, combining as it does the daily stimulus of porn-on-tap with the excitement of exercising their prerogative in deciding what the rest of the country’s 37-million (or is it 42-million?) citizens will […]
Comment: Ronald Suresh Roberts THE apartheid state killed 68 political prisoners in police detention, while apartheid’s mines killed 69 000 people this century. Yet the Truth and Reconciliation Commission is largely ignoring apartheid business. By law, the commission must investigate ”gross violations of human rights”, including ”severe ill treatment” that was ”part of a systematic […]
FRIDAY, 5.30PM The treasury under the former National Party government made more than R50-million in taxpayer’s money available to South Africa’s State Security Council in 1984 to fund its first five-year plan to undertake covert operations, the Eastern Cape’s Daily Dispatch reported on Friday. A list of the covert operations is contained in a secret […]
FRIDAY, 10.30AM JUSTICE Minister Dullah Omar has rejected claims published on Thursday in Afrikaans daily Beeld that the government meddled in the investigation into allegations against Dr Allan Boesak. Said Omar: ”There does not appear to be any factual basis for even suggesting interference in investigationas by anyone. The best placed are the Office for […]