OWN CORRESPONDENT, Cape Town | Friday 9.10am. A SENIOR ANC member resigned from his job and the party on Thursday after an apparent contradiction between the party’s and President Thabo Mbeki’s stance over Zimbabwe. Pieter Venter, who resigned from his post as the ANC head of media in parliament, wrote a statement delivered as a […]
Jad Adams BODY LANGUAGE How much of a sexual revolution did we really see in the past century? Romance, monogamy, family and coupling are in the 21st century, as they were in the 19th century, still central to Western culture. Far from sexual freedom breaking the family, one of the most important sex reforms still […]
Khadija Magardie A new initiative, spearheaded by the Medical Research Council (MRC) and various Aids advocacy bodies, has been established to monitor potential human rights violations in clinical trials for HIV/Aids vaccines. The project is entitled South African human rights and community mobilisation intervention for HIV/Aids vaccine development and clinical trials, and is funded by […]
Stefaans Brmmer President Thabo Mbeki and a shadowy African National Congress official have been linked to the bizarre appointment of a private investigator to probe government corruption. The appointment backfired this week when details emerged of the investigator’s exorbitant fee, apparent lack of success and crooked past. The saga of the private investigator, Kevin Trytsman, […]
TENNIS legend Martina Navratilova made her return to top-flight tennis on Tuesday in the Madrid Open, winning her return to doubles with South Africa’s Mariaan De Swardt. Saying she felt like a juggler and that her return was “very iffy,” Navratilova, in her first tournament match in six years struggled with her ball toss and […]
in murder A murderer’s confession has offered an unprecedented insight into the shady dealings of the police elite in Durban Paul Kirk The deputy commander of the Durban murder and robbery unit, Superintendent Alan Alford, has been accused of being part of a drug-related contract killing involving the Hell’s Angels. Alford features in the confession […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Auckland | Friday 11.00am. SOUTH Africa’s national under-23 soccer team, the Amaglug-glugs, will meet the New Zealand Oly Whites in the second-leg of their Olympic Qualifier at Vosloorus on Saturday, and if they learnt anything in the first-leg, will take their opponents very seriously indeed. The Oly Whites lost the first-leg 3-2 in […]
Illicit affairs, crimes of passion and political intrigue combine in Love Stories, a new series on SABC3 Lesley Cowling Love has very little part in the cultural stereotype of what we are as a nation. South Africans are hardly considered the great romantics of the world – after all, we’re driven by political rather than […]
David Le Page Economists are never short of detractors, and the latter have jeered loudly this week following the release of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) figures for the first quarter of 2000. The derision follows the huge disparity between the predictions of most economists, who were expecting growth of between 2,5% and 3%, and the […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Friday 9.15am. A RETIRED member of South African Airways’s senior management has admitted that the carrier regularly carried highly explosive substances as well as weapons aboard passenger flights in the 1980s. The Beeld reports that Brian Watkins, a retired senior route manager at SAA, told the paper: “We murdered the people […]