Yearly Archives: 1997

Tangeni Amupadhi NATIONAL Police Commissioner George Fivaz’s warning this week that members of his force must shape up or ship out has caught even his most senior officers by surprise. In inquiries to provincial police commissioners around the country, the Mail & Guardian learned that they had been informed of the shakeup at the same […]

Justin Arenstein AUTOCRATIC management and a failure to consult with affected rural communities is threatening Mpumalanga’s revolutionary attempts to make its conservation areas pay for themselves. It was with the future of its conservation areas in mind that the Mpumalanga Parks Board granted commercial management of its reserves, which are largely undeveloped and which cost […]

A group of Christian churches has launched a vigorous anti-halaal campaign, reports Jan Raath in Harare A POWERFUL right-wing Christian fundamentalist group in Zimbabwe has launched a campaign against the country’s modest Muslim community to halt what it believes is a “dangerous and violent” religion with its eyes on taking over the government on its […]

Debate rages about the role the media should take in reporting the truth commission, writes Claudia Braude * the run-up to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission conducting hearings on the role played by the media during the apartheid years, the debate surrounding the press playing a reconciliatory role raged among journalists at a workshop held […]

Glynis O’Hara INYOUREAR EVER sensitive to trends, especially constitutional ones, a few days of hor= izo ntality were spent listening to SAfm (104 to 107 FM), employing verticality= on ly under duress. And one was faced with some serious questions. Such as: Does Vuyo Mbuli really, really like the music he plays? Where did = […]

Mungo Soggot THE Central Energy Fund (CEF), which holds the state’s fuel assets, has quietl y limped into the new South Africa with the appointment of a new, far more rep resentative board. The new players on a board that until recently was synonymous with the CEF’s s anctions-busting past, include what chairman Roy Pithey […]

Alan Finlay WITS: A UNIVERSITY IN THE APARTHEID ERA by Mervyn Shear (Wits University, R69) INhis history of the University of the Witwatersrand -Wits – from 1919 to t= he=20 1990s, Mervyn Shear tries to uphold the idea of a place of learning that is= ab le to negotiate an even-handed response to a torn […]

For South African fans enjoying a feast of cricket, the arrival of the Aust= ral ians is the cherry on top CRICKET:Jon Swift IT hardly seems credible that, in the midst of what seems a plethora of cri= cke t, we have yet more coming our way – the Australians open their account wit= h […]

Tangeni Amupadhi ESCAPED gangster Joshua Rabotapi was reunited with his thumb and parts of his fingers this week after he was arrested at his luxury home in one of Johannesburg’s northern suburbs. Police say Rabotapi lost his digits in a shoot-out with police during a robbery in 1994 in which three people were killed. The […]

Mungo Soggot PLANNING some cosmetic surgery, but you=20 don’t want anyone to know about it? Why not=20 throw in a trip to South Africa, visit the=20 Kruger Park and see the fairest Cape – all=20 for half what you would pay in Europe? This is the pitch Carrie Globisch, a=20 beautician, plans to make when […]