THE Safety and Security Minster Sydney Mufamadi released government plans on Thursday to curtail the widely abused lending of firearms by changing gun-lending laws in terms of the Arms and Ammunition Act. The Act allows people over 16 to borrow guns with a letter of permission from the owner. The amendments will stipulate that borrowing […]
Andrew Muchineripi Soccer The analysis of a soccer match usually centres around the skill, strength and speed of the footballers and the tactics of the coach. Luck is a word rarely mentioned. Yet luck often plays a significant role and the African Nations Cup qualifying tie between South Africa and Gabon at Odi Stadium last […]
Bob Mattes:A SECOND LOOK Results released by the Opinion ’99 consortium last week indicate that large numbers of voters have, at best, a foggy awareness of their elected leaders. President Nelson Mandela and Deputy President Thabo Mbeki are widely known and well-liked. Most people know about most of the major party leaders (but not all), […]
Piers Pigou When Sicelo Dlomo’s body was found with a single shot to the head on the outskirts of Soweto in January 1988, many assumed the police had had a hand in the execution. Dlomo had become a thorn in the flesh of the security forces and had stayed away from home for several months […]
The battlefield of the real banking war has shifted to the corridors of Parliament. Howard Barrell reports The major banks, stung by perceptions that they don’t care about customers and charge as much as they can get away with for their services, begin hawking a new draft banking code of conduct around consumer groups this […]
THE Zambian government denied on Thursday allegations that it was responsible for the weekend bombings in Lusaka, to divert attention from gunrunning claims by the Angolan government. Denouncing the claims, Information Minister and chief government spokesperson, Newstead Zimba, said agents of confusion were deliberately twisting the facts about the bombings. He added that the water […]
dark’ Thokozani Mtshali Born in South Africa, Ayanda Moatshe (19) has lived all her life in the country. She holds a valid identity document, speaks four African languages and English, studies engineering at Wits Technikon, and plays on the national softball team. Her mother works at the Johannesburg Stock Exchange. But Moatshe has been picked […]
Matthew Krouse Down the tube The term makwerekwere has seeped into our diction over recent years, becoming descriptive of a range of foreign Africans that, as the lie has it, are easily identifiable. Stereotyped in popular culture as drug dealers, unwelcome street traders and corrupt businessmen, the foreigner is emerging as a stock symbol of […]
CD of the week:Neil Spencer Even in their prime, Blondie always were better at making singles than albums. It’s Picture This, Heart of Glass and Rapture for which the New York New Wavers are celebrated, not Parallel Lines or Eat to the Beat. Reconvened 16 years after their acrimonious split amid the usual regroup talk […]
IFP militants have been accused of plotting to derail the KwaZulu-Natal peace process in order to secure the province in the upcoming election, writes Wally Mbhele The African National Congress and the Inkatha Freedom Party are planning an urgent meeting to salvage the peace process in the KwaZulu- Natal which has faltered since the appointment […]