Yearly Archives: 2001

Cape Town | Friday A SECURITY guard who worked at the home of Marike de Klerk, the 64-year-old ex-wife of former South African president FW de Klerk, has confessed to her murder, police said on Friday. Investigating officer Mike Barkhuizen said: “The man we were holding has confessed to Mrs de Klerk’s murder.” A post […]

Offshore listings, speculators and the situation in Zimbabwe have handed the currency a thrashing Mungo Soggot Shocking figures released by the Reserve Bank this week show that an annualised R45-billion left South Africa in the third quarter because of the major local companies that have listed offshore, exacerbating the collapse of the rand. The figures, […]

Marianne Merten The new African National Congress-New National Party Western Cape government could find its hands tied on poverty alleviation and service delivery next year, as the 2002/2003 budget is scheduled for finalisation on Friday. Concern has been expressed that the new government has been installed very late in the budgetary process. It is understood […]

David Macfarlane One in two South African adults cannot read or write, but the government continues to allocate dismally low resources to this national scourge and to adult education generally. Basic education for adults is being increasingly sidelined in government priorities, a major conference last week in Johannesburg repeatedly heard. One of the country’s largest […]

Paul Kirk A favoured daughter of the African National Congress looks set to face criminal prosecution for the alleged theft of trust funds while she practised as an attorney. Police this week told the Mail & Guardian that Durban socialite and former attorney Linda Zama could also face charges involving alleged irregularities involving both tax […]

Tanya Glavovic Two years from now South Africa’s regulated drinking water supplies will be fluoridated to an optimum level of 0,7mg per litre of water in accordance with regulations promulgated by the Department of Health on September 8 this year. “The cost of this programme is estimated at R30-million a year,” says the chairperson of […]

Mungo Soggot A leader of the right-wing underworld, Johan Niemoller, has been sentenced to jail for trading in R1,1-million worth of illegal diamonds. Niemoller was arrested and charged in 1998 in the Krugersdorp Magistrate’s Court for selling the diamonds, but his conviction and sentencing now have special poignancy as his name has come up in […]

The Springboks wrapped up the year with a win in Houston, but they looked jaded and eager to return home for the holidays Andy Capostagno The final Springbok press conference of the year took place in the dressing room of the Houston Cougars university gridiron team. The match against the United States Eagles had been […]

Richard Williams The key words were these: “They regard him as a kindred spirit, someone who takes on all-comers and does things his way …” His way. It was impossible to miss the significance of that particular phrase. It appeared in Sunday’s Observer, as part of a piece speculating on the possibility that the members […]

The trial of a former police commander threatens to expose rifts within the force Zenzile Khoisan President Thabo Mbeki was briefed four years ago on alleged business partnerships between Angolan President Jos Eduardo dos Santos, some Dos Santos cronies, and Cape-based mafioso Vito Palazzolo. The Mail & Guardian is in possession of a 1997 briefing […]