Friday night Benjamin Adam and Marthali Brand Two hedonists arrive in Edenvale to dance the night away at that notorious old classic, The Doors. The Red Bull for the evening has already been consumed, and as they head for the dance floor with their usual enthusiasm, Kurt (rest his soul) croons the opening bars of […]
THE Truth Commission faces a legal battle over its selling the Final Report to publishers Jutas, despite the report’s own recommendation that it “be made available in the widest possible way”. Jutas are selling the report for R750, a price set by the commission itself. Steve Crawford runs the Truth Commission’s own website, and has […]
FORMER defence minister Magnus Malan was “doing fine” after his second heart bypass operation, Malan’s wife Margot said on Friday. Malan had the operation on Thursday morning after complaining of tiredness. An angiogram showed that one his arteries was clogged so specialists ordered corrective surgery. Malan said her husband had his first bypass 13 years […]
What my mother’s friends stumbled across came from observing their own lives, and those of their daughters and grand- daughters – is namely, that women (unless they are drunk, or mad, or abused, or prostitutes, or trying to prove something) are not generally sexually promiscuous. Neither are most men, but they probably would be, given […]
Ann Eveleth The head of a KwaZulu-Natal police unit that allegedly failed to respond to warnings before the Christmas 1995 Shobashobane massacre has been promoted to lead police crime prevention efforts on the province’s South Coast ahead of the elections. Superintendent Jan Botha was head of the Umzimkulu region’s internal security unit (ISU) at the […]
THE Democratic Republic of Congo’s central bank has devalued the Congolese franc, dropping its exchange rate to the dollar from 2,9 to 4,5, a fall of 55%. The new rate, announced on Wednesday, is “realistic,” according to Finance Minister Bemba Saolona. The devaluation comes on the heels of price hikes of up to 500% for […]
Kevin Mitchell Boxing Brendan Ingle says Naseem Hamed has been abandoned by his friends and will be finished as a top-flight fighter within two years. Given the turbulent nature of the business, it is not surprising that boxing generates such bitterness between old associates when they discover that their long-held trust is the sham they […]
Cameron Duodu:LETTER FROM THE NORTH Are you as confused about the Kosovo situation as I am? On the face of it, Nato is doing a great job: bombing Slobodan Milosevic into stopping the atrocities he’s been inflicting on the ethnic Albanian population of Kosovo. The stories of these atrocities are harrowing. Young men rounded up […]
A PARALYSING virus has killed nine children in Angola’s Luanda province where some 206 children have been hit by the unidentified ailment, the health ministry said Wednesday. Angolan specialists have said the illness, which mainly affects children under 11 years of age, was not polio. They have sent samples to South Africa for analysis. Results […]
MEMBERS of Swaziland’s parliament have called for Cosatu’s deputy general secretary, Zwelinzima Vavi, to be deported after he described Swaziland’s leadership as barbaric and said King Mswati had forced his people to do “compulsory labour”. The call, led by MP Marwick Khumalo, was made on Thursday afternoon. Khumalo said Vavi’s statements, made during an interview […]