OWN CORRESPONDENT, Blantyre | Friday 3.30pm. TRADERS in Malawi, worried at a wave of armed robberies and killings, have given the government of President Bakili Muluzi a month to improve security, failing which they will shut up shop. The ultimatum was issued on Thursday at a meeting between predominantly Asian traders and senior police officers. […]
Review of the week Struan Douglas When Nelson Mandela opened the National Arts Festival’s anniversary celebrations with his compassionate shuffle on June 29, African jazz started going mad all over town. Ebbing, flowing, dipping, peaking, threatening boredom, crying unprogressive yet ensuring its longevity. We’ve had the retrospective perennials. July 1 was devoted to old timers […]
Anthony Egan ROGUES, REBELS AND RUNAWAYS: 18TH-CENTURY CAPE CHARACTERS by Nigel Penn (David Philip) When asked how their latest work is doing, academics sometimes joke ironically about selling the film rights. In Nigel Penn’s case, a discerning film producer really could turn these true stories of violence, sex, race and class into costume epics of […]
The Springboks have never won at the House of Pain in Dunedin, but the return of Os du Randt to the scrum might just be the boost the team needs. Andy Capostagno reports Three weeks ago South Africa had never scored 100 points in a single Test match. Two weeks ago Wales had never beaten […]
Barry Streek Government departments do not always get their administration right – and even the institute set up to teach them how to do it has slipped up. This was revealed when Auditor General Henri Kluever tabled his annual report for the 1997/98 financial year in Parliament. The South African Management Development Institute was established […]
University of the North vice-chancellor Njabulo Ndebele says he is proud of Edupark and its achievements.
Aaron Nicodemus Aids and KwaZulu-Natal hotels apparently don’t mix very well. Last week, participants in a workshop on Aids were nearly evicted from the Hluhluwe Zulu Nyala Protea Hotel in the north-east of the province when it was revealed that some were HIV-positive. According to Aids activist Oziel Mdletshe, who attended the workshop, the hotel […]
The location of De Beers’s South African diamonds is now a major stumbling block in talks between the state and the giant to resolve the deadlock over gem exports. Mungo Soggot reports The battle between De Beers and the government has intensified amid accusations by state diamond officials that De Beers has backed out of […]
Andrew Muchineripi Soccer No Premier Soccer League coach is under more pressure to deliver or die than Victor Bondarenko, the former Soviet Union international who occupies the extremely hot seat at Orlando Pirates. Buccaneers boss Irvin Khoza, who kept Bonders in suspense for several weeks before giving him the green light to continue, expects at […]
claims Barry Streek Former Minerals and Energy Minister Penuell Maduna this week admitted that he could not be “bothered” to retract his groundless accusation in Parliament in June 1997 that Auditor General Henri Kluever conspired in a cover-up of the theft of R170-million worth of oil. Though he was aware within days that the claim […]