Wonder Hlongwa The widows of two prominent African National Congress leaders in the KwaZulu-Natal Midlands are seeking legal advice to sue Inkatha Freedom Party members implicated in their husbands’ murders. They say they are not satisfied with the quality of the evidence submitted to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s amnesty committee. Thobekile Maphumulo and Sbongile […]
Claire Robertson Jacques Pauw once wrote of Ferdi Barnard that his head “hopped like a rubber ball on his broad shoulders” while he smoked a crack cocaine pipe and confessed to killing Dr David Webster. That was some three years ago, when Barnard – a convicted killer, former narcotics policeman and dirty-tricks operative – was […]
Mail & Guardian reporter With foreign donor funding drying up, South Africa’s non-governmental organisations and their donors this week formed an agency to devise creative means to make them financially sustainable. The South African NGO Coalition (Sangoco), the South African Grantmakers Association (Saga) and the United Kingdom’s Charities Aid Foundation joined hands to set up […]
Dan Glaister in London It was, to borrow a phrase, better late than never: 66 years after it was originally commissioned and 64 years after his death, Elgar’s unfinished Symphony No 3 received its world premire. The work, finished – or “elaborated upon” – by the composer Anthony Payne, received an ovation from a packed […]
Peter Mokaba used his ministerial credit card to buy clothes, groceries and sweets, writes Andy Duffy An internal investigation by the Department of Environmental Affairs and Tourism has found that Deputy Minister Peter Mokaba spent thousands of rands of taxpayers’ money on personal expenses. Department officials reported late last year that Mokaba had used his […]
Andrew Muchineripi Soccer Who will wear the black, white, green and gold of Bafana Bafana when they begin their World Cup Group C programme against host nation France in Marseille on June 12? It a question that is much easier to pose than answer, because under fiery French coach Philippe Troussier, no one is certain […]
Andy Capostagno Cricket The horse-trading is over. We hope by the time you read this the squad to tour England will have been announced. And as ever, the armchair critic has plenty to bellyache about. ‘Twas ever thus. But since a good deal of the pleasure to be found in watching sport is connected directly […]
FRIDAY, 8.30AM: LOW-KEY Gerald Morkel became the most powerful coloured person in the National Party when he defeated his flamboyant opponent Peter Marais on Thursday night to become party leader in the Western Cape, the last remaining NP stronghold. But Morkel’s first few hours of power gave him little chance to savour his success: First, […]
Greg Bowes CD of the week As a nightspot, 206 remains one of the better reasons to stay in Orange Grove. Its most important contribution to Gauteng nightlife has probably been as a middle ground for the live rock crowd and the funky techno and trip-hop kids. I mean, where else can you see a […]
FRIDAY, 5.00PM: THOUSANDS of Rwandans gathered in the capital Kigali to witness the execution of four people convicted of inciting acts of genocide in the 1994 massacre of almost a million Tutsis. Another 18 prisoners were executed by firing squad in four other outlying towns. Preparations for the executions of three men and one women […]