Marianne Merten A key suspect behind the Cape transport conflict is a known taxi strongman who escaped trial in 1998 for multiple attempted murders and assaults after one witness was killed and others refused to testify. This had been the 13th time since 1993 that charges against Victor Sam, then secretary gene-ral of the Cape […]
Gavin Foster When Charles McEwan set off on his motorcycle that day in August 1992 he was on top of the world. A gifted soccer player, he’d just scored the two goals that won the Natal premier league for his side, Virginia. Then came the accident that cost him his sport career, but couldn’t take […]
The high price of anti-Aids drugs, socio- economic issues, wars, disrupted family lives, untreated sexual diseases and now possible genetic mutations – all factors in the epidemic that is Aids Ready for a fight: The Zimbabwean Movement for Democratic Change, which announced it will challenge 27 of the 62 seats Zanu-PF won in last month’s […]
This year’s Vita fine art awards are in a state of post-Steven Cohen politeness, but they’re still the best we’ve got Kathryn Smith Urban Futures 2000 and the 13th international Aids conference in Durban aside, July is the month when aspiring artists seeking acknowledgement, a small taste of almost-celebrity and perhaps a bit of cash […]
PRESIDENTIAL spokesman Parks Mankahlana has asked that his paternity test be postponed. Mankahlana was due to undergo a test on Monday to determine whether he is the father of an eight-year-old boy whose mother is claiming child maintenance. Mankahlana said he had other commitments and will now be tested on July 17 at the Nelspruit […]
Kevin Mitchell Pete Sampras’s opponents might have hoped he was going to disintegrate in pain and self-doubt at this Wimbledon. But Pistol Pete showed this week he is not ready to be run out of town just yet. The title-holder came through a third- round examination of his resolve and his aching left shin last […]
Angus Begg Cruising through the quiet Mpumalanga highlands town of Machadodorp, you’d be forgiven for thinking that the entire town had just attended its own funeral. Unemployed youths linger around the general dealer in trademark fashion, an attractive, period-piece church stands as a landmark in the town centre and an assortment of 4×4 vehicles pass […]
Ilana Gordon LIFESTYLE They lie in wait at every traffic light. A veritable cocktail of vendors selling an astonishing array of bizarre Made-in-China trinkets. Exactly what are those round plastic things with the pegs attached? It’s either a state-of-the-art mobile for kids, or something to hang your little laundry bits on. My personal favourite is […]
Alan Finlay “There’s a couple of butts left on the dresser.” – Hans Magnus Enzensberger, from his last will and testament Many people don’t want to talk about their own death, let alone sit down with themselves and decide how to plan for the eventuality. It is a daunting task, filled with a sense of […]
The decision to award the third cellular licence to Cell C was supported by only three councillors Ivor Powell A week after the government’s announcement that South Africa’s third cellular telephone licence is to be given to the Saudi-backed Cell C consortium, the award seems as shaky and compromised as ever. A cluster of new […]