Ted Leggett The state has had to release its hold on the property of alleged Milnerton drug dealer Gavin Carolus in the first test case for the civil forfeiture provisions of the Prevention of Organised Crime Act. A preservation of property order had been granted to the state to freeze the assets of Carolus, in […]
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, […]
TWO good samaritans who tried to help a hijack victim were themselves hijacked as they pulled over to the side of Impala road in Roodepoort on Tuesday afternoon. West Rand police say Gustav van Aswegen stopped his car and Theunis Holtzhauzen his bakkie to help Johannes Swart, who was standing on the roadside after being […]
Andrew Kay The 25-year-old Johannesburg Youth Orchestra (JYO), which had its annual subsidy cut without warning last year, has formed the Orchestra Company to raise funds through the private sector for the various youth orchestras affiliated to it. Judging by their full concert schedule, and the enthusiastic reception they receive at recitals, the strategies seem […]
>From Shopping and Fucking to Fugard in New York, director Yael Farber has been on a roller coaster ride, and she’s not about to get off, writes Charl Blignaut `It seems like insomnia isn’t just a Jo’burg thing,” says Yael Farber’s too-awake voice down the line from New York. It’s the middle of the night […]
David Shapshak Product: COMPAQ TFT8000 18-inch flat screen monitor Price: R27 000 `It’s like going to the drive-in,” a colleague said when he saw the 18-inch flat screen monitor. Except it’s a flat drive-in with precise, pin-point clarity and takes up less space that the clunky 15-inch monitor I’ve been using for years. Flat screen […]
Astronomers are excited about the discovery of the first multiple-planet solar system outside our own, writes Aaron Nicodemus Announcement of a discovery of a multiple-planet system reminiscent of our own solar system has created excitement throughout the world, offering the first suggestion that planetary systems like our own are abundant. The three planets, which rotate […]
Robert Heller Twenty wealthy Americans have just made off with booty exceeding a whole year’s net profit for Merrill Lynch, the world’s largest securities firm. You don’t need the FBI to track down the suspects. They head the 20 top companies, from Walt Disney to General Electric. Their combined salaries, bonuses and long-term compensation (mostly […]
Howard Barrell THE LIFE AND TIMES OF THABO MBEKI by Adrian Hadland and Jovial Rantao (Zebra) Our political institutions in South Africa are immature and largely untested. Our system of proportional representation places parliamentary seats more within the gift of party bosses than of bodies of voters. And internal African National Congress processes allow for […]
Liela Groenewald Hot on the heels of the BBC filming of the brutal assault of a suspect by Brixton policemen, a Ghanaian academic claims he was a victim of their brutality too. Last Sunday geologist Dr Frank Nyame was confronted by two policemen in Brixton who suspected he was an illegal immigrant. He claims the […]