MONDAY, 1.00PM: CLOSE to 8 000 applications for amnesty poured into the Truth and Reconciliation Commission before the final deadline struck at midnight on Saturday. Among last-minute applications was a hefty 1 000-page submission from jailed former Vlakplaas commander, Eugene de Kock, which arrived 20 minutes before the cut-off time, and 280 applications from the […]
MONDAY, 9.00AM: Moroka Swallows thumped Michau Warriors 2-0 at Rand Stadium in Johannesburg on Sunday, giving them a three point boost in the league log. The first goal came just before half-time, when Joseph Rapelago passed the ball to defender Mark Byrne, who promptly netted it. The next goal came after much tense playing in […]
MONDAY, 1.30PM THE ANC’s submission to the Truth Commission today was the first by a political party to make actual revelations about past transgressions, including the murder of ‘spies’ in its ranks, and bomb attacks on commercial targets. Among today’s revelations: Bartholomew Hlapane, a member of the ANC national executive and of the SA Communist […]
MONDAY, 11.00AM: SOUTH AFRICAN heavyweight Franscois Botha had a 10th round knockout win over James Stanton of Philadelphia on Sunday, to bag the World Boxing association North American heavyweight title. Stanton looked good in the third and fourth rounds, but in the tenth Botha finished him off. “I took my time. I wanted to work […]
STRIKE POSTPONED A STRIKE planned by the Congress of South African Trade Unions to protest against the Basic Conditions of Employment Bill has been postponed to June 2 and replaced with lunchtime demonstrations. Cosatu acted after the Labour Appeal Court found the federation had not first discussed its objections to the Bill at meetings of […]
Peta Thornycroft A GABLED mansion in the heart of Kensington, the eastern Johannesburg suburb, served as a “safe” house for intelligence operatives in the Security Police. It was at this house in the late 1970s and early 1980s where reports submitted by journalists who were informers were scrutinised before being consolidated and sent on to […]
The dream of founding a new National Party is over for Roelf Meyer, courtesy of the NP’s elite, reports Marion Edmunds FALLEN National Party hero, Roelf Meyer, has been outmanoeuvred by his opponents. His more conservative colleagues, led by executive director Marthinus van Schalkwyk and Western Cape Premier Hernus Kriel, pressured leader FW de Klerk […]
Despite criticism, Cuban doctors work in places where South African doctors refuse to go, reports Dawn Blalock THE child on his mother’s lap is breathing in short quick breaths. The mother describes his symptoms in Setswana. “How many days with the fever?” the doctor asks in English. Although neither English nor Setswana is his native […]
A small Free State town provides a testing ground for South Africa’s three-year democracy. Stuart Hess and Dawn Blalock report
Stuart Hess and Mungo Soggot report on a case that takes the failure of the courts to protect the public to a new extreme MAMOKGETHI MALEBANA is missing. Lots of children go missing in South Africa. But the disappearance of this seven-year-old child from Katlehong is a shocking indictment of the country’s criminal justice system. […]