FORMER SA Defence Force special forces member Noel Robey told the Truth and Reconciliation Commission on Thursday how Mamelodi activists Dr Fabian Ribeiro and his wife Florence were murdered in 1986. Robey told the TRC’s amnesty committee that the murders were committed by two unknown special forces members from Northern Namibia. He said he was […]
HIGH courts have started the process of resentencing some of the 350 prisoners on death row, Justice Minister Dullah Omar’s office said on Thursday. In terms of the 1997 Criminal Law Amendment Act, death row prisoners who have exhausted all avenues of appeal and review must return to the courts where they were originally sentenced […]
David Shapshak Product: NOKIA 9110 cellphone/personal digital assistant James Bond has one. The Saint has one, and now you can have one too. The Nokia 9110 is the latest must have for the mobile warrior. It looks like a cellphone, albeit a slightly bigger version than the current smaller-is-cooler vogue, but with a click it’s […]
PLAY was suspended in Augusta, Georgia late on Thursday at the 63rd US Masters due to inclement weather, with more than one third of the field still on the course. Lightning was spotted in the area of Augusta National Golf Club. Americans Davis Love, Brandel Chamblee and Scott McCarron shared the clubhouse lead at three-under […]
Although he walked free in 1997, Bruce Grobbelaar cannot find an English club that will have him. Simon Kuper reports `Bloody mist, eh?” says Bruce Grobbelaar, jumping out of his car just in time for training. “You can’t see a golf ball on the fairways.” Behind him Table Mountain is indeed shrouded in the stuff, […]
people. This is our story’ Last week Charlene Smith was raped and left tied up in her own bathroom. But that was just the beginning of her ordeal. By telling the story of that painful night, she hopes to raise awareness of the way rape `victims’ are treated Every 26 seconds in South Africa a […]
Aaron Nicodemus A leading Y2K expert says South Africa’s public hospitals are woefully unprepared for the January 1 2000 computer glitches that may disrupt the flow of medical supplies and cause life-support systems to malfunction. Private hospitals are only doing slightly better, says Mohammed Madhi, CEO of Cyberknowledge Systems and a national expert on Y2K. […]
A 39-year-old Nyanga resident appeared in court on Thursday on firearms charges following an attack on Malizole Diko, the Western Cape secretary of the United Democratic Movement. Diko claimed he was shot at while returning home to the KTC informal settlement after attending a political meeting on Wednesday. He returned fire before reporting the incident […]
Total originality, explosive energy and plenty of brain power have all played a part in the rapid rise of Boo! to South African stardom, writes Andrea Burgener For a rare few seconds, Princess Leonie’s tight-as-a-tourniquet drum rhythms are still. Chris Chameleon, lead singer and self-proclaimed resident polysexual of Boo! is remonstrating with the cheering, applauding […]
Over the next two weeks 59 tons of African ivory will be sold to Japan. Leading elephant researchers argue this could open the door to wider elephant slaughter Three shipments of 59,1 tons of ivory will be auctioned and sold to Japanese traders in the next two weeks, in terms of a recent international decision […]