Emeka Nwandiko It is 1pm and a muezzin issues a wailing call to prayer from a mosque in Dlamini. The faithful come from all around – Klipspruit, Rockville, Meadowlands – to give praise to Allah. But being Muslim in Soweto requires more than His Mercy. “It is difficult to be a Muslim because people think […]
David le Page Product: ICQ free e-mail software. Requirements: PowerMac or 68K Mac; 486-SX or higher PC; Windows 3.11, Win95 or WinNT3.5/4.0; any Java-enabled computer As the great South African diaspora continues, it becomes increasingly likely that we lingering diehards have not only obscure and happily forgotten relations overseas, but also a number of people […]
THE amnesty hearing for notorious apartheid-era police officer and “superspy” Craig Williamson concluded in Pretoria on Thursday. Williamson applied to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission for amnesty for letter bombs which killed Ruth First, the wife of prominent communist and housing minister Joe Slovo, in Maputo in 1982 and activist Jeanette Schoon and her daughter, […]
The date burns in the mind of Formula One executives and tobacco manufacturers like a glowing snout. On October 1 2006, the chequered flag will fall on cigarette sponsorship of the sport, and possibly not only in Europe. Now, with the opening of the 1999 season at Melbourne’s Albert Park this weekend, Formula One must […]
The abduction and killing of a group of tourists by interahamwe show the militia is intent on settling scores, report Chris McGreal and Anna Borzello The Britons and Americans among the tourists killed in Uganda this week probably had no idea why they were singled out by their captors. It’s doubtful they even knew that […]
Peatlands, which take thousands of years to establish, are being exploited to make compost and potting soil, writes Rehana Dada Most gardeners buying plastic bags of “environmentally friendly” potting soil and compost are probably unaware that they are in fact contributing to the destruction of valuable wetlands protected by law. Unscrupulous profit-seekers often gouge this […]
Mungo Soggot A labour relations arbitrator has ordered Minister of Minerals and Energy Penuell Maduna to pay his former special advisor R170 000 in compensation for his unfair dismissal. Maduna axed his advisor, Thulani Gcabashe, without a hearing last March in the midst of the scandal surrounding the appointment of Liberian Emanuel Shaw II as […]
WESTERN Province captain Craig Matthews and Border’s Makhaya Ntini have bowed out with injuries from the five-day Supersport Series cricket final which starts in East London on Thursday. Matthews has been suffering from an ankle injury while Ntini, who failed a fitness test on Thursday morning, has a hip strain. Ryan Joffe comes in for […]
Deon Potgieter Boxing If he wins on Saturday night, Dingaan “The Rose of Soweto” Thobela will become the first South African to gain world titles for three different world bodies. Thobela will take to the ring at the Nasrec complex against the South American champion, Adrian Daneff, for the vacant International Boxing Organisation Welterweight title. […]
SMALLHOLDER Nicholas Steyn was on Thursday convicted in the Delmas Circuit Court of culpable homicide for shooting dead six-month-old baby Angelina Zwane last April, SABC radio news reports. Angelina was being carried on her 11-year-old cousin Fransina Dlamini’s back when Steyn (43) shot at them on his plot near the East Rand town of Benoni, […]