THE trial of a former Kenyan game park warden on charges of murdering British tourist Julie Ward in September 1988 was postponed in the Nairobi High Court on Thursday. Judge Daniel Aganyanya postponed the trial to February 26 to give prosecutors time to gather more evidence in the trial of Simon ole Makallah, now assistant […]

my father …. John Matshikiza:WITH THE LID OFF So, why With the Lid Off? Well, it’s a great title, isn’t it? It says what it means to say. But I don’t claim to have been witty enough to have thought it up by myself. Column titles churned around inside my head for many a sleepless […]

THE New National Party’s legal challenge against a requirement that voters possess bar-coded identity documents in order to register began on Friday morning before a full bench of the Cape High Court. NNP legal adviser Andre Gaum said on Thursday that whatever the outcome, the matter is expected to be referred to the Constitutional Court […]

NIGERIA’s military ruler General Abdulsalami Abubakar has won the African Man of the Year Award for 1998. The Nigerian ruler received the award from the African Sun Times, a publication for African readers published in New York. Previous winners of the annual award are President Nelson Mandela and Ghanaian President Jerry Rawlings. Abubakar has promised […]

David Shapshak The horse racing industry has been rocked with rumours that bookmakers tried to hobble Horse Chestnut, one of South Africa’s top horses and the hot favourite for this weekend’s J&B Met. The horse, owned and bred by Harry and Bridget Oppenheimer, almost had its legs broken two weeks ago. But security guards shot […]

shoes Smangaliso Mkhatshwa is tipped to replace Mathews Phosa in Mpumalanga after reports that the premier’s name was taken off the ANC’s election list. Justin Arenstein reports Mpumalanga Premier Mathews Phosa appears to have surrendered to his detractors within the African National Congress and, despite heavy denials, is expected to formally resign from the government […]

Evidence wa ka Ngobeni A man who was arrested on charges of stealing computers which were to be distributed to North-West province schools was robbed of the equipment before it could be recovered. Police are not able to explain why they did not take the computers – more than 900 of them valued at R12 […]

Despite my forecast a few weeks ago that South Africa’s financial markets might have more going for them than last year’s dismal time, don’t be misled into thinking the “real” economy is in anything other than an unmitigated mess. If the effect of the financial sector is stripped out of the calculations which make up […]

The Lexmark 1000 Color Jetprinter started irritating me when I unpacked it, because it came with a standard thick printer cable. I suppose I should be grateful – colleagues reviewing other Lexmark printers didn’t get any cables. This is rather like selling a toaster without a plug, only worse, as a printer cable costs a […]

to die for Evidence wa ka Ngobeni Vista University’s final 1998 examination results improved dramatically – and some lecturers admit this was after they received death threats from students. Lectures at the university’s five campuses were disrupted last year by a student boycott, and the final examinations were postponed for two weeks after students said […]