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Yes, you can find peace and quiet (and free babysitting) in Johannesburg – among the books at the city’s main library, writes Katy Bauer AT 7.30am, parking beneath the Library Gardens is easy to find. A highly missable single wooden door at one end of the garage allows for super-safe, almost covert access to Johannesburg’s […]
air Mungo Soggot FORMER Central Energy Fund chair Roy Pithey has swatted suggestions this week from Minister of Mineral and Energy Affairs Penuell Maduna that the operation engaged in irregular accounting practices. Maduna told Parliament that the results of his investigation into the fund’s post-1992 operations would be handed over “soon”. The probe -which triggered […]
Gustav Thiel AN international human rights commission has accused the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of ignoring the role played by psychiatrists and psychologists in abusing human rights under the apartheid regime. The Citizens Commission on Human Rights said it had uncovered a “determined effort by the apartheid regime to use the field of mental health […]
Mungo Soggot THE African National Congress is hiring out its Cabinet ministers as guest speakers and MCs in a drive to swell the party’s coffers. Among the ministers available for such lucrative engagements are Minister of Finance Trevor Manuel and his colleague Minister of Trade and Industry Alec Erwin. Both are highly prized as guests […]
SOCCER:Andrew Muchineripi AS Manning Rangers bask in the glory of winning the inaugural Castle Premiership soccer championship, several key figures within the squad have continually created headlines. Coach Gordon Igesund has received due praise for moulding a team of virtual nonentities into one good enough to finish eight points clear of Kaizer Chiefs and 10 […]
Anne Eveleth DYNAMO Investments Chairman Oscar Dhlomo says he promised full editorial independence to staff at City Press – South Africa’s largest black weekly – before a consortium led by his company bought a controlling share of the newspaper from Naspers. The R110-million sale of 51% of the paper – to Dynamo, Ukhozi Investments and […]
Yoweri Museveni has made great strides in dismantling the vestiges of colonial rule in Uganda, but Mahmood Mamdani questions the long-term stability of outlawing political opposition WHEN Yoweri Katuga Museveni came to power in 1986 at the head of the National Resistance Army (NRA), he pledged ”Fundamental Change” to the people of Uganda. Ten years […]
Peta Thornycroft WAR matriel from South Africa is being supplied to Angola’s Unita movement, according to reports by the Institute for Security Studies. One of the institute’s senior researchers, Jakkie Potgieter, says he has seen military supplies being off- loaded and stored in northern Mozambique for shipment to Unita forces along Angola’s border with the […]
Seamus Deane ANGELA’S ASHES by Frank McCourt (Flamingo, R66,95) FRANK McCOURT’S memoir has been published to loud acclaim, especially in the United States, where it won a 1997 Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award. It recounts the story of his family, starting in New York and thence transferring to Ireland, specifically to Limerick, during […]