this city Marianne Merten The police have spent a vast amount of the money allocated to Operation Good Hope, aimed at breaking the cycle of violence in the Cape Peninsula, on transport and providing bodyguards to protect detectives assigned to it. Financial statements in the possession of the Mail & Guardian show just more than […]
Andrew Muchineripi Soccer The team and reserves walked on to the pitch holding hands Brazil-style, formed a circle, bowed heads and prayed, then kicked footballs into the sparse George Goch Stadium crowd. On the warm, partially cloudy weekend afternoon the future of Moroka Swallows Football Club was at stake when they tackled Dynamos from the […]
John Matshikiza:WITH THE LID OFF I ran into my old friend, Tiger, in Yeoville the other day. Tiger is looking pretty good, wearing a suit and tie with all the trimmings nowadays, and Ray-Bans that never leave the bridge of his nose. But he still has that foxy, township tic of never looking you in […]
AN East Rand bomb disposal unit defused two mini-limpet mines found by railway workers under railway tracks between the Lindella and Katlehong stations on Wednesday, police said. Police spokesman Captain Andy Pieke said the mines’ detonators were destroyed in a controlled explosion by a bomb disposal expert. He said the mines appeared old and could […]
TALKING on a cellphone while driving could be outlawed by the end of the year if a draft regulation by the Department of Transport is approved. The regulation was published in the Government Gazette on Wednesday for public comment, in line with legislation in Switzerland and Australia. Traffic Legislation Section manager Deidre Briech told SABC […]
exports Mungo Soggot The taxman is part of a team tasked with probing the way the state evaluates diamonds following an unprecedented finding that De Beers undervalued gems due for export. Minister of Minerals and Energy Penuell Maduna appointed the team of civil servants this week after meeting with De Beers. It emerged last week […]
If peace talks are unsuccessful, Sierra Leone’s capital could suffer new rebel assaults, reports Peter Moszynski from Freetown The beleaguered capital of Sierra Leone is waiting in trepidation for the outcome of peace talks in Togo next week with the Revolutionary United Front (RUF) rebels whose offensive devastated Freetown in January. Unless the talks succeed, […]
Prominent journalists, friends and relatives who knew veteran photojournalist and TV newsman John Rubython crammed into Cape Town’s St George’s cathedral on Thursday to pay their last respects. Rubython (58) was stabbed to death in his Woodstock home early on Monday morning by a young burglar. Rubython’s partner, Melanie Junker, and their three-month-old baby, Marie-Hlen, […]
ZIMBABWEAN authorities on Wednesday postponed without explanation an identification parade for the suspected torturers of three alleged United States mercenaries, defence laywers said. The three US citizens are facing terrorism charges after arrested on March 7 in possession of arms of war in their luggage as they attempted to board a Swiss Airline to Zurich. […]
THE Nigerian government has ordered immediate payment of the approved minimum wage to end a public sector strike in 24 of Nigeria’s 36 states, a union leader said, according to reports on Friday. Sylvester Ogbeifun, a local chairman of the main trades union federation, the Nigeria Labour Congress, said the office of the chief of […]