He walked free and, with him, a nation began the walk to freedom. He became head of state, and it seemed as if patience and justice had created a new politics for the people, one without bigotry or repression.
NIGERIA’S first parliament in more than 15 years opened Thursday in Abuja, electing a former state governor from southeast Nigeria to the country’s third-highest ranking constitutional position. The 109-member Senate and 360-member House of Representatives, elected in landmark polls in February, were declared opened by the clerks of the two assemblies. The upper chamber elected […]
JAMES SMALL, one-time top Springbok try scorer and record holder for Test caps, was left out of the Lion’s Currie cup squad of 22 players released on Monday, and his immediate future with the Ellis Park-based union hangs in the balance. Uncertainty surrounds the controversial Small’s intentions since his return from playing for a World […]
THE International Monetary Fund on Thursday hailed Sudanese moves to reverse 20 years of economic decline but called for “broader and deeper” reforms to consolidate gains made to date. The IMF, according to a summary of recent discussions of the Sudanese economy by Fund directors, expressed satisfaction with Sudan’s implementation of IMF-monitored programs in 1997 […]
newsroom’ Matthew Krouse Election coverage on television was a long and protracted low-key drama. Jumping to the different polling stations with the SABC, one got a good look at South Africa in its winter garb. Sadly, we must be the worst-dressed nation on earth. Of course, the coverage wasn’t a fashion show. Rather, it was […]
THURSDAY, 12.15PM: A DRAFT white paper on energy policy released on Wednesday may see the complete deregulation of the liquid fuels industry in South Africa, which will involve phasing out the rigid control over the price of fuel, allowing prices to be determined by market conditions. Business Day reports that the paper, announced by Minerals […]
Alex Sudheim The 1999 Durban Designer Collection was a bold attempt to knock fashion from its elitist perch and teach it how to live by its wits on ground level. One of South Africa’s most prominent style events celebrated its 20th birthday this year by throwing the silky plumed bird of fashion out of the […]
Belinda Beresford and Mungo Soggot The flurry of litigation surrounding Magnus Heystek’s controversial handling of a family trust has intensified with a summons issued by the guardian of the trust’s beneficiaries against Heystek and his fellow trustees. Clive Berman, the guardian of the two children who are beneficiaries to the multimillion rand trust, is asking […]
The discovery of minutes that expose how the National Party regime sealed the fate of Matthew Goniwe and three others could be the most important breakthrough during the past five years where discovering the truth about our grisly past is concerned. For the first time South Africans have been presented with concrete evidence that the […]
SARAH BULLEN, Cape Town | Friday 9.00pm THE Independent Electoral Commission admitted huge errors in its accounting of unverified results late on Friday night as results continued to swing like a pendulum over and then back again behind the mark of an African National Congress two thirds majority. Results late on Friday afternoon showed the […]