THE police have proposed that a special court be set up to hear cases involving crimes against tourists, a spokesperson for the police crime prevention unit said on Thursday. Unit director Piet van Rensburg said perpetrators often get off free because victims are back in their own countries by the time the assailants appear in […]
Ferial Haffajee : TAKING STOCK >From the Top of Africa we look down on one of the continent’s largest cities. Johannesburg. At the top of the Carlton Centre (now called the Top of Africa), the city looks like a mini-land. Cars rush about on highways that criss-cross the city linking Sandton in the north with […]
Friday night : Rudeboy Paul Kicking back after a week of Groove Kamikazes till 10, where to go since Y2K burned down? To get down till break of dawn with beautiful girls and chilled vibes? Nice and easy? Last couple of weeks, I’ve been mellowing out over a Jack Daniels and lime checking out the […]
The Walkman is dead. Long live the Sony PlayStation, writes Faisal Islam Lara Croft’s newly released album on Sony Records is not available in the shops. Fans of the electronic games heroine turned virtual pop star will have to hook up their PlayStation to a Sony digital network and download directly to minidisc in seconds. […]
A caring organisation is finding homes for abandoned babies, writes Aaron Nicodemus Ten years ago, the maternity ward at Pietermaritzburg’s Edendale hospital was overflowing with abandoned babies. At one stage it was caring for 64 infants. They lived three or four to a crib and received barely adequate medical care. They were unwanted and unloved. […]
Ben Laurance For a few fleeting moments last Friday, traders on the oil market apparently thought the worst might be over. Leaders of Opec, the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries, emerged from a meeting in the Hague to declare member states would be cutting oil production by two million barrels a day. The price of […]
ONE of President Nelson Mandela’s nephews, Reverend Daliwonga Mandela, is to establish a branch of the New National Party at Motherwell, near Port Elizabeth. NNP MP Dr Manie Schoeman said in Parliament on Thursday that Reverend Mandela had resigned from the African National Congress in 1990 and has now decided to join the NNP. Said […]
THE former Rwandan army major freed by a United Nations court on charges of murdering 10 Belgian peacekeepers during Rwanda’s 1994 genocide remained in custody on Friday as Belgium and Rwanda sought his re-arrest. The UN tribunal freed Bernard Ntuyahaga on Thursday when the prosecution dropped charges against him but Belgium wants him for trial […]
Lauren Shantall It’s a blustery Friday evening in Cape Town and I’m still waiting to catch one of the city’s signature Golden Arrow buses. When it finally careers round the corner of Bree Street, its rambunctious horde of singing, laughing passengers yell the driver to a stop. Our public transport system is in chaos – […]
Philip Nel : A SECOND LOOK I hope I am not the only Afrikaans speaker who feels uncomfortable with being made the focus of a special debate in Parliament. Although I can understand the political reasons why political parties would like to have such a debate in the run-up to the elections, I do not […]