CD of the week Okay, Orbital have sampled Dollar on In the Middle of Nowhere (ffrr). It shows an admirable open-mindedness, if you ask me. Not that you’d expect anything less. My favourite Orbital moment is when they whack the chorus of Belinda Carlisle’s Heaven Is a Place on Earth through the speakers at their […]

n Western Cape Premier Gerald Morkel will be next to his cellphone with the family at his official residence. He is one of seven in the provincial government put on standby just in case the Y2K bug causes havoc. n Cape Town Anglican Archbishop Njongonkulu Ndungane, a keen gardener, will spend the time in the […]

Paul Kirk South Africans are increasingly using flaxseed oil capsules as an anti-malarial remedy amid false claims that scientists have vetted the drugs. The capsules have already proved popular in Johannesburg, and are now catching on fast in KwaZulu-Natal. But experts warned this week that the leaflets accompanying the drugs are “blatantly untrue” and are […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Cape Town | Friday 4.15pm. WESTERN Cape provincial crime intelligence chief Jeremy Veary released an identikit of a bomb suspect without consulting policemen working on the case because he believed the suspect was being protected by top Western Cape detectives. This information is contained in a signed statement by Veary, which he originally […]

Donna Block SHARE WORLD First birthdays are usually a watershed, a milestone, and reason to celebrate. On January 1 2000 the euro, Europe’s single currency, will have its first birthday, but it appears no one’s going to be coming to the party. The 11 European participants in the euro will not be breaking open the […]

Business against Crime has installed another 63 spy cameras in the city of Cape Town, writes Marianne Merten Spy cameras on Cape Town’s streets from Eastern Boulevard to Roland Road near Parliament? It may sound like Big Brother is watching, but the people behind the closed-circuit television cameras are adamant they are just doing their […]

Marianne Merten This is not the first time that the National Intelligence Agency (NIA) and police intelligence services have been linked to the string of explosions – with the last two high-profile restaurant bombings, 576 blasts – that have rocked the Cape since 1996: l In October the Mail & Guardian revealed that NIA informer […]

Thirty-one years after the assassination of the civil rights leader, one man is still fighting to expose what he says is the truth behind the murder. Tony Stark reports Bill Pepper is a crusader – a man with a mission that has transformed this quietly spoken American lawyer from an unknown attorney into someone who […]

Paul Kirk and Evidence wa ka Ngobeni Most of the fun in Durban will be centred around the city’s harbour, Africa’s busiest. But what was supposed to have been the star attraction in the bustling port – a replica of the Titanic – will not make the deadline. The ship has in fact not been […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Port Elizabeth | Friday 6.30pm. ENGLAND clawed their way back into the match on day number two of the second test against South Africa in Port Elizabeth. By the close of play the touring side had rattled up a reply of 139/1 to South Africa’s blistering first innings total of 450. After losing […]