Marianne Merten looks at the many reasons why males turn to a life of rape and murder The gang rape and murder of Valencia Farmer (14) shocked many ordinary South Africans. But within days there were whispers in her community that she had been in a shebeen before she was attacked – tantamount to saying […]
‘Dead men can’t rape’ is the premise of <i>A Gun for Jennifer</i>. Lauren Shantall wonders if it’s really that simple
The mad emperor of South Africa’s avant garde, Chris Pretorius, now lives in the United States, but he’s back in Grahamstown with Dark Continent, writes Matthew Krouse.
MINING company Consolidated African Mines (CAM) Wednesday reported an attributable profit of R132,5 million for the past financial year. This came after a loss of R178,6 million for the nine months to March 1998, the company said in a statement. CAM owns 64% of JCI Gold and has shares in the prominent Western Areas and […]
WEDNESDAY, 12.30PM: CLIVE WOODWARD, coach of the English rugby side that arrived in South Africa on Monday for a one-off Test against the Springboks at Newlands on Saturday, has lashed out at “the thickheads” who organised the ill-fated English tour of the Southern Hemisphere. Woodward said his team will have time for only two training […]
WEDNESDAY, 12.30PM: THE winelands of the Cape will play host to the European golf tour for the first time when the 1999 Mercedes-Benz Vodacom SA Open is staged at Stellenbosch Golf Club. The South African Open forms part of the European Tour and will see world number two Ernie Els defending his home title, an […]
THE Tanzanian government is looking for potential buyers worldwide of the state-owned Tanzania Telecommunications Company Limited, PSRC (privatisation authority) Executive Chairman John Rubambe declared in Dar es Salaam on Tuesday. The TTCL currently has only 127000 lines connecting its customers and has been offering telephone services to about 2% of Tanzanian families, he stated. He […]
SHARON HAMMOND, Nelspruit | Thursday 2.45pm. MOZAMBIQUE will lift its ban on elephant hunting in the next month and start selling off 1,8 tonnes of ivory seized from poachers. The ban was introduced in 1990 after the government signed the Convention on the International Trade in Endangered Species. The convention was amended this year to […]
HISTORY will be made on Thursday when Gill Marcus takes over as deputy governor of the Reserve Bank. Marcus will be the first woman in the country to occupy such a post within the bank. She succeeds Chris de Swardt who retired on Wednesday. She is reluctant to comment on any future policy shifts: “In […]
MPUMALANGA Premier Ndaweni Mahlangu has dismissed reports that he will be meeting with Public Protector Selby Baqwa on Friday to explain his public defence of lying as a political technique. Mahlangu’s new spokesperson, Sefako Nyaka, said the planned meeting on Friday was actually between a junior official from the premier’s office and representatives from the […]