Yearly Archives: 1997

South Africa talks about reconciliation,=20 but Rwanda wants its political criminals=20 behind bars. David Goodman reports WHILE the Truth and Reconciliation=20 Commission busies itself with doling out=20 amnesty to apartheid killers, justice=20 officials at another end of Africa are=20 pursuing a decidedly different approach to=20 settling old scores. Rwandan officials=20 visiting South Africa this week […]

Amid continuing controversy, abortion this=20 week becomes legal, but many units will be=20 unable to offer the service. Jim Day=20 reports=20 MANY provincial health departments have=20 been caught ill-prepared for the=20 introduction this week of legalised=20 abortion.=20 The new Choice on Termination of Pregnancy=20 Law comes into force on Saturday, and the=20 health ministry on […]

Peter Vale IT was never possible that South Africa’s=20 foreign policy would be a glorious success;=20 that we would ride into the setting sun of=20 the 20th Century – national dreams=20 fulfilled, collective destiny guaranteed,=20 all insecurities stilled. But we had a right to expect that the=20 discussion on South Africa’s place in the=20 world […]

Jim Day LESS than five years after the founding of an independent press in Mozambique, two of the nation’s top independent editors remain confident that the country’s press will remain vibrant. In a society dominated by government newspapers including the daily Noticias and a Sunday paper called Domingo, both these editors have successfully found a […]

Stefaans Brmmer DEFENCE Secretary Pierre Steyn came under intense pressure from the defence establishment after the Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s public release of details from the “third force” report which Steyn made in 1992. After the truth commission bombshell last week, vultures gathered to pick De Klerk’s political bones – how else could it be […]

John Daniszewski in Cairo SUDANESE rebels claimed this week to have killed hundreds of government troops and pushed to within 65km of a key hydroelectric dam in a mushrooming military campaign to topple Sudan’s Islamic government, long criticised internationally as a sponsor of global terrorism. The offensive that began two weeks ago has spread quickly […]

Israel’s political storms have put radical economic changes on the back burner, writes Alex Brummer ISRAEL’S economy appears intent on mimicking the Italian model. Despite political assassination, terrorist bombings and reprisals, a soldier running amok on the West Bank and a government, under Binyamin Netanyahu, apparently determined to win prizes for impetuousness and incompetence, the […]

Executive Outcomes is the world’s first corporate army and – some argue – an effective peacekeeping force, report Khareen Pech and David Beresford EXECUTIVE OUTCOMES has fought many gun battles in Africa. Today the controversial company, having brought new meaning to the concept of the “corporate state” by mustering what is arguably the world’s first […]