Guy Willoughby Review of the week Reviewers like to begin notices of Not the Midnight Mass by reminiscing about the first time they caught their act (except in Cape Town – Cape Town reviewers, like Cape Town police, rarely catch anything). I’ll quickly observe, then, that I first saw the famous a cappella foursome from […]

The Bushbuckridge Nature Reserve is being plundered while politicians squabble over who it belongs to, and who will take responsibility for it, reports Fiona Macleod Armed syndicates are pillaging truckloads of rare indigenous trees from a 7E000ha game reserve on the border between Mpumalanga and Northern Province while politicians and conservation authorities squabble about who […]

OPPOSITION presidential candidate Afonso Dhlakama and his Renamo party had won five of Mozambique’s 11 provinces by Wednesday to four for incumbent President Joaquim Chissano and his ruling Frelimo party. Results being announced over state radio as counting continues from the elections held earlier this month show voters repeating the pattern of the Mozambique’s first […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Wednesday 3.20pm. SUNDOWNS coach Paul Dolezar boasted this week that the Castle Premiership title race might be over by Christmas, but if his team continue to play like they did in midweek they may not even be in the lead by then. Bush Bucks, second last on the standings, were not […]

TASMIN Toubitt, the girlfriend of Springbok fullback Percy Montgomery, could face criminal charges after she broke into the home of her late ex-husband and removed a number of his possessions, The Star reported on Thursday. Toubitt, allegedly assisted by Montgomery, also removed her former husband’s car illegally from the car park at Cape Town International […]

A SECOND senior official resigned from the Post Office on Wednesday, only a day after the resignation of the institution’s senior financial general manager. The Post Office said in a statment that Doug Smit, the general manager of Speed Services, will be temporarily replaced by Steve Gill. The senior manager of the Post Office’s communications […]

MALAWI’s President Muluzi said in a statement on Wednesday that the small country of R10-million people had qualified for debt relief. He announced the good news after being officially assured of his country’s status at a meeting with British Secretary of State Claire Short. Britain also pledged to increase bilateral aid to Malawi to K5-billion […]

THE majority of Australian gold producer Acacia Resources’ shareholders have accepted AngloGold’s offer of 3,5 AngloGold shares for every 100 Acacia shares following the SA company’s friendly takeover bid on October 12. By the close of business on Tuesday 58,2% of Acacia shareholders had accepted the offer.

FORMER president Nelson Mandela left South Africa for Berlin, Germany, on Wednesday night to launch the “Cities without Slums” initiative. His spokeswoman Zelda la Grange said Mandela was invited by the World Bank and the United Nation Centre for Human Settlements. Mandela is scheduled to address a meeting on Thursday at a hotel in Berlin […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Harare | Thursday 4.30pm THE five-yearly congress of Zimbabwe’s governing Zanu(PF) party opened on Thursday with President Robert Mugabe blaming the country’s economic woes on sabotage by foreign-owned companies and banks operating in the country. Mugabe said steep price rises and shortages of commodities such as fuel and foreign currency are artificial and […]