unit busted Chiara Carter Several senior National Intelligence Agency (NIA) members face suspension and possible prosecution following a preliminary investigation into claims of missing money and misconduct. They were members of a special unit set up to find apartheid’s missing millions. Instead the unit, headed by former Umkhonto weSizwe commander Thabo Kubu, became embroiled in […]
Bop Broadcasting’s latest audit has revealed major financial discrepancies, reports Mungo Soggot The Office of the Auditor General has rejected the Bophuthatswana Broadcasting Corporation’s 1997 accounts after uncovering possible fraud involving millions of rand, widespread mismanagement and a breakdown of its financial systems. In a report signed off on July 21, the finance watchdog said […]
Lauren Shantall Movie of the week In an apathy-addled, dislocated age, Michael di Jiacomo’s latest offering, Animals – screened together with his short film The Tollkeeper – measures out an imaginatively potent dose of heartfelt living. Screened first, the highly visual The Tollkeeper is an unexpected cinematic treat. It opens, in the grainy black and […]
Ben Laurance Share World It was Lewis Carroll’s Humpty Dumpty who created the precedent. “When I use a word,” he said, “it means exactly what I want it to mean – neither more nor less.” Now, 127 years after Through the Looking Glass was published, Alice has come to Wall Street. A hedge fund – […]
CD of the week Adam Sweeting The idea that Brian Wilson could ever again approximate his own back- catalogue masterpieces has grown increasingly laughable. There was the critically-feted Orange Crate Art in 1995, but that was really a Van Dyke Parks project cunningly disguised as a Brian Wilson album. While it’s true that Wilson has […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Freetown | Friday 8.00pm. THE United Nations Children’s Fund has urged Sierra Leone’s government to disarm the country’s legion of child warriors and give amnesty to rebel children captured in battle. Speaking to journalists during a two-day visit, Unicef executive director Carol Bellamy said she was ”troubled” after meeting a contingent of child […]
Mathematical evidence, too complex ever to be fully checked by a human, is now accepted as valid, writes Keith Devlin What exactly is a mathematical proof? This thorny question was raised again last month when an American mathematician announced a solution to a 400-year-old problem posed by the astronomer Johannes Kepler. Thomas Hales of the […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Friday 7.15pm. SOUTH African fighter planes are violating Mozambican air space in the southern Gaza province, the Mozambican Interior Minister said on Friday. Almerinho Manhenje told state radio his trip to the area was prompted by reports of frequent incursions into the country’s airspace by South African fighter jets. ”We have […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Cape Town | Thursday 10.00pm. A REFUGEE system that considers people’s rights is the aim of the Refugees Bill tabled in Parliament on Thursday. The draft legislation sets out new ways for dealing with refugees in line with United Nations standards and under the supervision of an independent refugee affairs committee. It proposes […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Thursday 11.45am. THE familiar components of a market bloodbath were all in place on Thursday morning, and local indices delivered. The Dow lost 237 points on Wednesday night, and Asian markets were also down. Further, the International Monetary Fund’s recently released World Economic Outlook halved its worldwide growth forecasts, and projected […]