Yearly Archives: 2001

obituary Anton Harber David Astor popped into the offices of The Weekly Mail (now the Mail & Guardian) one Thursday morning in early 1986 as we were putting the finishing touches to that weeks edition of what was then a fledgling, penniless newspaper with a staff of five. Both parties were embarrassed: Irwin Manoim and […]

For many years people in this country and elsewhere pretended not to know anything about the daily atrocities perpetuated by successive apartheid governments on our country’s black people. They preferred only to concentrate on the reaction (often justifiably violent) of the oppressed people on various organs of the apartheid state and its support civil structures, […]

Belinda Beresford South African companies are missing out on lucrative returns by failing to see that money spent on HIV/Aids is an investment, rather than a cost, according to a new study into major Southern African companies. And while many managers may regard HIV as a personal issue, they are still failing to appreciate the […]

Phindi Molefe (22), an entrant in ”Miss Fats” South Africa 2001, waits backstage for her number to be called. Last Friday evening the Johannesburg Civic trembled under the pudgy feet of 12 hopefuls vying for the title of the most voluptuous in the land. The only entry criterion is that contestants weigh in at a […]

TRIALISTS of the historic Liliesleaf Rivonia Trial will on Saturday meet in a reunion for the first time in 38 years. Nadine Bainbridge, a representative for the Liliesleaf Rivonia Trialist Reunion organisers, said on Monday the function — at the history-making Rivonia farm — would bring together for the first time all those closely associated […]

TANZANIAN police are holding a South African national who was arrested at the airport here in possession of three kilograms of cocaine, police said on Wednesday. Police named the suspect as Sali Ameen Abdulhack (51) and said he was holding a South African passport. ”The suspect was found with several packets of the drugs in […]

POLICE were on Monday investigating the possibility that the nine-year-old girl, whose body was found in a field at Kraaifontein near Cape Town earlier in the afternoon, had been raped. Policeman Wickus Holtzhausen, said the body was discovered in the veld by two bypassers. He said forensic experts were by Monday evening still trying to […]

FOUR people were shot dead and one seriously injured after an argument over a girlfriend in Thembisa on Tuesday, North Rand police said. Inspector Matlhodi Motadi said the incident happened around 5am. No further details were available. – Sapa

CLAIRE KEETON, Pretoria | Friday SOUTH Africa’s government must provide HIV treatment to pregnant women to help prevent transmission of the Aids-causing virus to their unborn children, the High Court ruled in Pretoria on Friday. The landmark decision swept aside the official line that such treatment was impracticable, given the scale of the problem in […]

THREE white youngsters and ex-policeman, Eben Kruger, will be sentenced in the so-called ”Parys bashing case” on Thursday, SABC television news reported on Wednesday. The four were found guilty on Wednesday of killing two black people in what was believed to have been a racially motivated killing in Parys, in the northern Free State, in […]