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 […]
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 […]
Sarah Bullen Russian-born director Sergei Bodrov saw the setting for his new feature film Hoofbeats, a big-budget production by Columbia TriStar Pictures, in Solitaire. Solitaire – best described as a tiny enclave somewhere in the middle of Namibia’s endless Namib desert – has very little going for it apart from a caf, a petrol station […]
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 […]
feet’ Sharon Hammond A senior manager in the Kruger National Park was accused this week of being a foul- mouthed tyrant who terrified his staff members and tortured animals. The Commission for Conciliation, Mediation and Arbitration (CCMA) heard in Nelspruit that the trails and information manager, Bruce Bryden, allegedly cut off the feet of elephants […]
TWO teachers, including a school principal, opened fire on a group of their pupils in KwaZulu-Natal on Thursday, killing one and seriously wounding three. The incident happened when pupils from a high school in the Cele district, south of Durban, stoned their teachers to protest the bus fare required for a school outing, The Starreports. […]
Jack Schofield Netwatch Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace is taking over the Net. It’s not the official site that’s the problem but a supporting cast of sites for fans who will queue for up to two weeks to see it. You can get your daily dose of Star Wars at or or try […]
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 […]
provinces Ian Clayton Plans by the African Natonal Congress to downgrade provincial governments in favour of stronger municipalities will result in a constitutional fight that the party is bound to lose unless it has a clean sweap of Parliament and provincial legislatures in the June 2 election. Even then, it will take a major rethink […]
Anthony Minnaar >From 1994 to 1998, an average of 240 police members were murdered every year – almost one a day, a total of nearly 1 200 in four years. This is one of the highest figures in the world. Only China, and to a lesser extent Russia, approach this annual figure. The United States […]