A RIGHTWINGER, who earlier this year received amnesty for 32 acts of terror, on Friday threatened to resume bombings in solidarity with Chris Hani’s assassins who were denied amnesty earlier this week for the SA Communist Party leader’s murder. Dries Kriel, secretary-general of the Boereweerstandsbeweging, in a statement on Friday said he wanted the Truth […]

AN Egyptian and a Tanzanian suspected of taking part in the deadly bombing of the United States embassy in the Tanzanian capital Dar es Salaam last year are due to appear before a resident magistrate again on Friday. This development in the drawn-out case follows the release by the United States FBI of a long-awaited […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Friday 91.30am. CONTROVERSIAL playwright Mbongeni Ngema’s estate was sequestrated in the Pietermaritzburg High Court on Thursday in the wake the Sarafina II Aids play debacle. The sequestration follows legal action by the Heath Special Investigation Unit in its continued attempts to to recover some R14-million in taxpayers’ money spent on the […]

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 […]

Andrew Worsdale Movie of the week `He’s never met a princess, only queens,” says openly gay film director James Whale when introducing his gardener to Princess Margaret in Gods and Monsters. It’s a gem of dialogue in a script that sparkles with witty one-liners and moments of tragedy. Writer/director Bill Condon deservedly won the Best […]

Ferial Haffajee African National Congress deputy president Jacob Zuma will take the party’s manifesto to Free State’s Mangaung stadium tomorrow alongside Winnie Madikizela-Mandela. Bets are on which leader gets the loudest vivas. Two weeks ago, ANC president Thabo Mbeki had to halt a crucial election launch speech as Madikizela-Mandela arrived late at Orlando stadium. An […]

The World Health Organisation on Friday confirmed a polio outbreak in Angola which has reportedly paralysed 200 children, but the agency said it still aimes to eradicate the disease globally by the end of 2000. The agency said virology experts in South Africa had confirmed polio after examining stool samples taken from the paralysed children […]

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 […]

The choice of the former editor of the Financial Mail, Nigel Bruce, as a leading candidate for the Democratic Party is somehow symptomatic of the forthcoming general election in South Africa. If there is one party we would expect to be looking forward to June 2 it is the DP. After all, it seems to […]

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 […]