Robert Kirby: Loose Cannon I must confess to feeling a bit ambivalent about Dr Nkosazana Zuma’s latest anti- smoking crusade. As a three-years-on ex-puffer, my wife assures me I have all but emptied my well of self- righteous reformist zeal. I now tend to let people get on with their tobacco undisturbed by pious sermonettes […]
Bridget Hilton-Barber looks at South Africa’s achievements in women empowerment Have women in Parliament done more than add a dose of colour and culture change to the staid Parliament of old? Has life changed for the average South African woman? If laws and government policies were the sole barometer of improvements, yes. Equality is guaranteed […]
The two most senior African National Congress officials in the Free State have been shunned by their supporters on the eve of the party’s preparations to elect new provincial leadership. ANC Premier Ivy Matsepe-Casaburri and the provincial chair, Zingile Dingale, appear to be facing the chop. None of the 10 Free State ANC regional branches […]
Andrew Muchineripi Soccer Test cricket umpire Mervyn Kitchen is not the only official removing dollops of egg from his face. Premier Soccer League referee Achmat Salie cautioned Orlando Pirates midfielder Naughty Mokoena twice on Sunday without sending him off. Mokoena received a yellow card soon after half-time at Vaal Professionals in the opening round of […]
Kevin Mitchell Gay Games Nothing really prepares you for the Gay Games. Certainly not 47 years of heterosexuality or a month on the testosterone circuit known as the World Cup. If there is another place on God’s earth where 15E000 of his creations are as nice to each other at one time, it was not […]
Lesley Cowling Buying yourself that coveted car, boat or string of pearls might seem a simple transaction: you pay the money, you get the goods. But unless you conduct business like a television drug deal (slide over the suitcase of money and I’ll throw you the cocaine), you may find yourself out of pocket. What […]
TRISH MURPHY, Johannesburg | Wednesday 9.00PM. A TEAM of United States military personnel is in Rwanda, according to a report confirmed by the Pentagon. The 12 soldiers, part of an “assessment team”, were seen in the vicinity of the Gisenyi border post, which is close to Goma in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Goma was […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Thursday 12.15pm. OFFICIALS in the department of mineral and energy affairs on Thursday said they will urge Minerals and Energy Minister Penuell Maduna to ask government to intervene in the four-day-old chemical industry strike. Department Director General Gordon Sibya said: “We believe government has a duty to consider acting as a […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Cape Town | Thursday 11.00PM. ONE woman has died and another is seriously injured after a bomb exploded at the Salus building in Belleville, near Cape Town on Thursday. The building houses the police special task unit investigating violence associated with the vigilante group People Against Gangsterism and Drugs. A Pagad member arrested […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Windhoek | Thursday 9.00pm. ZAMBIAN President Frederick Chiluba has accused Unita rebels in Angola of defying the 1994 peace accords signed in Lusaka in an attempt to end 16 years of civil war. Chiluba appealed to Unita on Wednesday night to support current United Nations mediation to restore peace in the Southern African […]