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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Charles David Beresford ANOTHER COUNTRY Prince Charles and I were born in the same year. Which is why I nurse a vague sense of identity with him. At least I remember feeling vaguely cheated as a child at hearing he had received a boy-sized, petrol-driven car which really drove for his birthday, while I had […]
Justin Pearce Ethiopia’s breakthrough into Eritrean territory two weeks ago ended a lengthy stalemate between two once-friendly neighbours, who had first gone to war almost exactly two years earlier. In May 1998 Eritrea moved its troops into several areas of disputed territory which had up to then been under Ethiopian administration. Heavy fighting, at the […]
LONDON Wasps fly-half Alex King has withdrawn from next month’s tour of South Africa, England coach Clive Woodward confirmed on Thursday.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 […]
Andrew Muchineripi SOCCER Amid all the media excitement about Amaglug-glug this week, one man has gone quietly about the business of ensuring that South Africa will be among the 16 finalists at the 2000 Olympic Games football tournament in Australia. Ephraim “Shakes” Mashaba is living proof that you do not need a foreign coach to […]
Peter Dickson Five weeks after three Barkly East policemen allegedly dragged a teenage burglary suspect behind their van, causing him to die a brutal death under the wheels when he collapsed from exhaustion, the men are still free on the streets of the remote Eastern Cape town. The policemen were suspended after the incident last […]
David Le Page It’s common cause, but Abram “Slang” van Zyl still doesn’t refer directly to the source of his notoriety, the Civil Co- operation Bureau (CCB). Rather, he refers obliquely to the “defence force”, it having spawned the CCB, the “dirty tricks” operation that begat so many dreaded and familiar names: “Staal” Burger, “Joe” […]