fingers Aaron Nicodemus Although the law that allows police to shoot unarmed suspects was changed six months ago, its implementation has been delayed by a lack of commitment by the South African Police Service (SAPS) to train its officers. Section 49 (2) of the Criminal Procedure Act sets down the circumstances under which a police […]
ABOUT 5000 United Democratic Movement supporters will march to the offices of African National Congress Northern Province premier Ngoako Ramatlhodi, on Saturday, to demand the release of a controversial report on traditional chiefs. Provincial UDM leader Reverend Kingsley Masemola accused the premier on Thursday of wanting to withhold the report until after the June 2 […]
Adrienne Viljoen’s favourite saying is, “‘n Boer maak ‘n plan,” which she translates as “a man makes a plan”. As manager of the South African Bureau of Standards Design Institute, she believes that Africans have the innate ability to design solutions to day-to-day problems. “People are ingenious at solving problems, but they don’t think in […]
Alex Sudheim Poetry is one of the great human paradoxes. Consumed as we are by infinite labyrinths of emotion and thought, we have at our disposal but one rudimentary tool for the expression of our ephemeral selves: that famously deficient thing called language. As Samuel Beckett once pointed out: “Every word is an unnecessary stain […]
What are your options in the cellular market? David le Page takes a look As the winter chills descend, the thought of warming your ear and adjacent cerebellum with microwaves can become attractive, and you’re considering leaping afresh, or for the first time, into the cellular market. It’s a good time to do it. Pressures […]
Ted Leggett As if the South African Police Service (SAPS) wasn’t in enough hot water over the filming of police brutality by BBC-TV, it recently had to deal with a series of attacks from the country’s deputy president. At an election rally in the Indian suburb of Chatsworth recently, a police member asked Thabo Mbeki […]
Charlene Smith The government is delaying a number of studies into rape, HIV and the use of anti- retroviral drugs with the obstinate stance that researchers must have a control group of rape survivors who do not receive medication. One proposed Johannesburg-based study with a $100-million grant from pharmaceutical companies would see free anti-retroviral treatment […]
Vic Marks Even those of us who groan about the proliferation of so-called one-day specialists in England’s World Cup squad do not quibble about the selection of Neil Fairbrother. He may be 35 years old, stuck with a Test average of 15 and and the owner of two disobedient hamstrings that often seem to twang […]
British newspapers have been `leaked’ damaging documents in what appears to be an elaborate plot to smear President Nelson Mandela, write Martin Welz and Mungo Soggot Several British newspapers have been probing a story that President Nelson Mandela accepted a kickback as part of a Nigerian oil deal. The allegations appear to be part of […]
Friday night Isaac Chokwe and Tim Horwood We left the office at 7.06pm, unaware of what lay ahead on this autumn Friday night. At the intersection of Jan Smuts and Empire roads I noticed a movement through my open window and glanced to my right … but nothing happened, no one ran up to the […]