Paul Kirk and Marianne Merten The man hired by Golden Arrow buses to provide security to its besieged drivers is the KwaZulu-Natal hotel owner who allegedly offered a security guard money to withdraw a rape charge against tycoon Jonty Sandler. Norman Reeves, the managing director of the Combat Group of Companies, is a former regimental […]
Luvuyo Kakaza I was late, like an African. But there was no sound of a tinkling piano or a saxophone blowing away the chilly wind at Kippies Jazz International in downtown Johannesburg. The Youth Performance Development Project had not yet begun. Students from Fuba School of Music in Newtown were nervously preparing to perform with […]
photographs Evidence wa ka Ngobeni The Aids 2000 conference committee has banned photographs by an award-winning Dutch photographer on the grounds that the images provide an excessively graphic insight into the dreadfulness of the HIV/Aids epidemic. The photographer, Geert van Kesteren, from Holland, submitted an application early this year to the committee to exhibit his […]
There is really no time left in which to dodge around the truth. South Africa has reimposed the death sentence. Once a world leader in judicial executions – until the moratorium of 1989 put a stop to hangings – the new South African government has brought back executive killing with a harsh vengeance. But this […]
Robert Kirby CHANNELVISION Smart television producers will by now have recognised a cash cow in the making. If nothing else, the coverage of the recent King commission hearings showed that there’s a wealth of real-life drama out there, just waiting to be exploited. The hearings had every element of a excellent tragicomedy. There was the […]
INNOVATIONS There’s long been software available to do personal make-overs – hair, make-up and so on – but like many software applications, this one has now found its way online, at www.makeover.com. You can upload your own photo (or use that of a model with similar looks) and try out different hairstyles, different make-up combinations […]
Pule waga Mabe The Y2K National Year 2000 Decision Support Centre, the government agency given the task of with tackling the Y2K bug, will close this month after spending seven months compiling reports and audits on what turned out to be the first damp squib of the century. The centre was established in 1998 with […]
Despite a clear policy on prison leave, Eugene Terre’Blanche was recently granted weekend parole while a seemingly deserving prisoner was not Lebo Malepe and Sammy Modiba It took a last-minute court application to get Phola Katisi to attend her brother’s funeral, while Eugene Terre’Blanche enjoyed 12 hours of freedom, courtesy of a bureaucratic mix-up in […]
To paraphrase from a character in one of Toni Morrison’s great novels: “The trouble with these people is that they just don’t know when to stop.” OK, I admit it, I’m still smarting. Sitting in the centre of the African continent, staring out at its myriad wonders, I find myself still smouldering like the magnificently […]
Street traders involved in a high court case with members of two Durban mosques claim the worshippers themselves are often guilty of impairing the dignity of the places of worship Paul Kirk Worshippers at the largest mosque in the southern hemisphere have been accused of using prayer meetings as convenient opportunities to settle old scores […]