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 […]
Former President Nelson Mandela says a landmark draft agreement has been worked out between rebels and the government that could finally end the long-running Burundi civil war.
ahead Barry Streek The government is to press ahead with plans to outsource municipal services and negotiate partnerships with the private sector – despite opposition from public sector trade unions which fear this will result in job losses. The government is convinced that adequate municipal services cannot be supplied to the majority of South Africans […]
LONDON Wasps fly-half Alex King has withdrawn from next month’s tour of South Africa, England coach Clive Woodward confirmed on Thursday. King, Jonny Wilkinson’s fly-half back-up, has been ruled out of England’s 40-man squad due to a shoulder injury. “Alex has told me he won’t be available for the tour, and I am very disappointed […]
Last week Kay Hassan was formally handed the DaimlerChrysler award for South African Contemporary Art 2000 Matthew Krouse Stuttgart, May 18. Amid fanfare and a notable degree of overkill, South African artist Kay Hassan received the newly launched and already coveted first DaimlerChrysler award for South African Contemporary Art 2000. Much has recently been written […]
Justin Arenstein Suspended Mpumalanga parks chief Alan Gray has made a desperate appeal for the National Intelligence Agency (NIA) to help him fight 77 theft and fraud charges in return for “offering up” some of the province’s most prominent politicians. Gray and ousted environmental affairs MEC David Mkhwanazi secretly met with NIA director gene-ral Vusi […]