Yearly Archives: 2001

Q&A: judith sephuma Thebe Mabanga A Cry, A Smile, A Dance is the debut solo album from Judith Sephuma, a jazz vocalist on the rise. Having graduated at the University of Cape Town (UCT) school of music, majoring in jazz singing, the winner of the best jazz vocalist at Old Mutual Jazz Encounters in 1999 […]

AN Egyptian antiquities team has discovered a Roman-era “wine factory” in the Nile Delta region of Abu Qir 200 kilometres north of Cairo, a senior Egyptian antiquities official said on Wednesday. The find, dating from the era of Roman rule in Egypt that ran from 30 BC to 395 AD, was made during excavations in […]

The parallels between Israel and the South Africa of PW Botha grow daily more striking. Since besieged Israeli voters installed militarist Ariel Sharon as leader, security considerations have replaced politics, violence and counter-violence have spiralled out of control, state assassination has been sanctioned, whole communities are punished for individual crimes, voices of reason are systematically […]

THE Southern African Development Community (SADC) is to hold an emergency meeting on the crisis in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) in mid-January, Malawi President Bakili Muluzi said on Wednesday, saying his country would host the meeting. “There is need for continued efforts if genuine peace is to be ensured in the DRC,” Muluzi […]

analysis Nicholas Taitz and John Kuhn The South African government’s policy against providing free anti-retroviral drugs to people living with HIV/Aids may amount to a crime against humanity. The legal concept of “crimes against humanity” was introduced after World War II to hold Nazi leaders accountable for their crimes in the Holocaust. At the Nuremberg […]

BOXING Deon Potgieter The most consistently entertaining boxer currently active in South Africa is World Boxing Union (WBU) cruiserweight champion Sebastian “the Soldier” Rothmann. He’s not the greatest pugilist in the business, but he always comes to fight. Rothmann makes the fourth defence of his title on Saturday in England against veteran Crawford Ashley. Ashley, […]

Barry Streek The Democratic Alliance has started picking up the pieces after the “great schism”, broadening its top leadership structure to keep New National Party members on board and make it more racially representative. The party’s national management committee decided this week to co-opt four black Democratic Party members MPs Donald Lee, Dan Maluleke and […]

MARIANNE MERTEN, Cape Town | Friday AMID condolences and warm tributes to murdered former first lady Marike de Klerk – initially thought to have committed suicide after years of depression following her divorce and singledom – her dark side has been largely forgotten. Apparently a reluctant politician’s wife, she had tried to persuade her former […]

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 […]

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 […]