Review of the week Alex Dodd There’s this theory – a kind of conspiracy for chemically inspired dreamers. What would happen if some lateral guerrilla managed to put massive doses of Ecstasy in Johannesburg’s water supply. Would the murder and rape rates flatten out for one dizzy day? Would hijackers be disarmed by a strange […]
Controversial KwaZulu-Natal Inkatha Freedom Party leader and MPL Phillip Powell was tricked into revealing the large cache of arms.
THE Congress of SA Trade Unions on Thursday vowed to intensify its struggle against the unilateral privatisation of state enterprises by the government. “We are ready to respond fully to the threat of job losses in a number of state-owned enterprises, Cosatu’s deputy general secretary Zwelinzima Vavi said. “Never in any circumstances will Cosatu stand […]
MAJOR diversified industrial group Barlows said in Johannesburg on Friday that the Spanish Stock Market National Committee has approved a public offer of 2350 pesetas (R93,76) a share for the delisting of its subsidiary Finanzauto from the Spanish bourse. With minorities owning 1,2-million shares, representing 5,7% of the issued share capital, the offer is worth […]
Firoz Cachalia A common theme runs through last week’s editorial and Howard Barrell’s column in the Mail & Guardian. Under Thabo Mbeki’s leadership, they assert, the African National Congress is centralising power in ways which undermine democracy and the Constitution. Both are critical of the manner in which the ANC has appointed candidate premiers, and […]
Howard Barrell You may have heard the story. It goes like this: the police have an unfortunate history which has left them, among other things, short of the skills they need to do their job; so the public doesn’t trust them; so the police don’t get the information they need for their investigations; so the […]
AN AMENDMENT to the Arms and Ammunition Act will allowed licensed firearm holders to only lend their guns to other licence holders, the Safety and Security ministry said on Thursday. The ministry said that amendment is to curb the increase of handguns being used in crime. Previously licensed holders could lend their firearms to anybody […]
THE world’s longest gold chain is to go on sale during Egypt’s shopping festival in July, newspapers reported on Friday. Dubbed Cleopatra’s Snake in tribute to the last pharaonic queen, the 4500-meter-long chain will weigh 250kg, Al-Akhbar newspaper said. The chain will be sold off in sections to customers during Egypt’s second annual month-long shopping […]
THREE editors of Uganda’s independent Monitor newspaper were charged in a Kampala magistrate’s court with sedition and publishing false news that could create “fear and alarm” on Thursday. The charges follow publication in the daily on Tuesday of a photograph of a naked woman having her pubic hair cut with scissors by a group of […]
BRYAN PEARSON, Thokoza | Thursday 8.20pm INKATHA Freedom Party leader Mangosuthu Buthelezi on Thursday launched a blistering attack on the ruling African National Congress, fuelling already-simmering tension following the unearthing of a massive IFP arms cache. Buthelezi, addressing an election rally in Thokoza east of Johannesburg — once an arena of bloody conflict between the […]