Andrew Muchineripi Soccer It is unfortunate that at a time when South African soccer should be presenting a united front to the world, cracks are appearing in relations between the national association and its professional wing. Premier Soccer League (PSL) chief executive Joe Ndhlela last week requested that referee Petros Mathabela be barred after the […]
Alex Dodd This image, Berlin (1981) is part of a major Jurgen Schadeberg retrospective on show at the Gallery of Photography in Dublin, Ireland until the end of March. Although Schadeberg is best known for his classic black and white Drum photographs from Fifties South Africa, the images on show will expose viewers to his […]
Barbara Ludman MRS EINSTEIN by Anna McGrail (Anchor) A daughter was born to Mileva Maric and fellow student Albert Einstein a year before they were married. Baby Lieserl was given up for adoption in her mother’s village in southern Hungary so that the great man’s studies would not be disturbed. The two sons born after […]
Charlene Smith King Carl Gustaf of Sweden this week knighted long-time anti-apartheid activist Horst Kleinschmidt with the Order of the Polar Star, Sweden’s highest award for foreigners. Sweden became the first government to acknowledge the incredible work over five decades of the organisation International Defence and Aid Fund (Idaf), which Kleinschmidt headed from 1979 until […]
Allegations that Hernus Kriel influenced casino licensing have surfaced. Chiara Carter and Ivor Powell report A man who served on the Western Cape Gaming Board has accused former premier Hernus Kriel of exerting undue influence on decisions to license casinos and urging a cover-up of an alleged bribe by a business friend. The allegations are […]
Ian Clayton Cash-strapped NGOs should not expect much assistance with their funding from the latest Katz commission report. The commission’s proposals on donations to and possible tax deductions from NGOs are to be printed soon – but they are unlikely to result in any major changes. Minister of Finance Trevor Manuel told Parliament this week […]
David le Page So you’re driving down the information highway (no “super” – it’s Telkom). You’re on your way to a website in Durban, and you decide to pull in to Harrismith to check your e-mail. There, of course, your Cyberhost is cheap, friendly and accommodating – just like the Wimpy. Well, Internet start-up company […]
FOUR people were arrested on Thursday in Cape Town township Nyanga following a shootout between political rivals hours before a non-denominational church service designed to calm tension in the area, police said.Police spokesman Captain Mark Romburg said the shootout occurred in KTC, a shanty-town in the heart of Nyanga, where five political organisers have been […]
Ferial Haffajee The government has appointed a failed executive implicated in graft to head its state-of-the-art broadcasting school. Solly Kotane, a former African National Congress propagandist, was appointed in February despite his failures at Bop-TV and the South African Communications Service (Sacs). While at Sacs, he was called to Parliament to explain why a company […]
FORMER Azanian People’s Liberation Army members will assemble in Umtata on March 20 for their final parade, in line with a decision taken late last year that they should formally disband. Although Apla was part of the integration of the non-statutory and statutory forces into the South African National Defence Force, it has never officially […]