Deon Potgieter Boxing South African boxing administration, suffering from allegations of favouritism and vested interests, is failing to transform itself as ordered by the government – which stepped in to solve the infighting. Minister of Sport Steve Tshwete set up an interim boxing commission to restructure the sport’s administration when the South African National Boxing […]
Apartheid was essentially about exploitation; autocratic rule by a so-called “elite” who used the mechanism of racism to kept themselves in power while guzzling piggishly at the fat of the land. The removal of that virus of racial oligarchy is what the people of South Africa of all races, religions, creeds and sexual orientations thought […]
Respected journalist Max du Preez was axed this week by the SABC. This is his version of the events of the past 10 days “He who is scared of a hyena’s howling, is he who has smeared himself with fat” – old Shona proverb. Forgive me, I have just discovered a book on Shona proverbial […]
THE Judicial Service Commission has backed high court judge Edwin Cameron to fill a vacancy on the Constitutional Court, according to a report in Business Day. The majority commission view in favour of Cameron, who disclosed his HIV-positive status this week, will be communicated to President Nelson Mandela, who will appoint a judge to fill […]
Hunting’s ethical custodians caused unethical carnage in Mozambique, reports Dave Larsen Top officials of Safari Club International (SCI), the United States-based international hunting organisation which sets ethical standards for the industry, are being investigated after they allegedly took part in an illegal elephant hunt in northern Mozambique. The hunt took place in contravention of a […]
In 1835, the Xhosa King Hintsa was killed at Nqabara, near Willowvale in the Eastern Cape. The amaXhosa say that the king was treacherously cut down while escaping from a British army camp, where he had been negotiating terms of surrender after half a century of continuous war against the invading power. The British side […]
Niki Barker The already cash-strapped KwaZulu-Natal Nature Conservation Service faces further financial stress, with the disclosure this week that a considerable sum of money deposited with the embattled New Republic Bank (NRB) in Durban has been frozen as a result of NRB being placed under receivership. It is claimed that the conservation service deposited R48- […]
DEMOCRATIC Republic of Congo President Laurent-Desire Kabila has announced the dissolution of the Alliance of Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Congo (ADFL) which swept him to power in 1997, accusing some of its members of “opportunism” and “self-enrichment”. Addressing the first congress of the “Comites du pouvoir populaire (CPP)” on Tuesday, in a ceremony […]
Early in the millennium, boxing’s premier title will return to Africa, writes Gavin Evans Think of the world heavyweight champion, and it’s big Americans who come to mind. From Jack Johnson to Evander Holyfield, all the great ones have been drawn from the south and east flanks of the United States. In fact, for only […]
Donna Block and Mungo Soggot One of South Africa’s top black businessmen, Dikgang Moseneke, this week conceded that New Africa Investments Limited (Nail) had made an error of judgment over the handling of its controversial R136-million share option windfall for him and three other top executives. Moseneke, MD of South Africa’s flagship black empowerment group, […]