FRIDAY, 12.00NOON: THE South African cricket team scored one for the record books on Thursday when they beat New Zealand by a single run at the Bellerive oval in Hobart, Tasmania. The South Africans won the toss and elected to bat first in the 50-over match. Tight bowling and good fielding by the Kiwis held […]

smuggling Jan Breytenbach, a legend in the former SADF, describes how he discovered that senior officers were using ivory-smuggling routes for their own corrupt ends Jonas Savimbi’s headquarters was at a place called Jamba, a sort of squatter camp 10km south of the Biongue omuramba (flood plain) and about 15km south of the Luiana River. […]

festive season Stuck in Jo’burg over Christmas and new year? Bridget Hilton-Barber provides some good ideas for things to do 1 Top Star Drive-In. Just because the council can’t afford to switch on the Christmas lights in downtown Jo’burg this year, doesn’t mean festive Gauties should go without a spectacle. The Top Star drive- in […]

There are still questions over the treatment of illegal immigrants at Lindela camp, writes Andy Duffy Guards at the private deportation camp Lindela had to use batons and dogs to quell a near-riot last week after hundreds of inmates massed to storm the gate. Management at Lindela, which is linked to high-profile African National Congress […]

The truth commission’s hearings into human rights abuses end next week. But the emotional effects on the commission’s staff could last for many years. Angella Johnson reports Frank Mohapi was interviewing three surviving members of a family that had virtually been wiped out in a sectarian attack eight years ago when he noticed he was […]

Trevor Lawson Just when you thought it was safe to go back on the motorway in your lead-free petrol, fuel-efficient, catalytic-converted car, along comes a report which suggests that your exhaust pipe is just the tip of a very noxious pollution iceberg. According to a report by a British environmental group, vehicles, like people, decay […]

M&G reporter Telecommunications Minister Jay Naidoo’s bold plan to counter the year 2000 computer crisis may be too late, computer industry sources warn. While the United States is expected to achieve compliance by July 1999, South Africa is thought to be at least a year behind in preparations for the year 2000 problem. Although Naidoo’s […]

When Tokyo Sexwale looks back on his tenure as premier, he will have few regrets, writes Charlene Smith When Tokyo Sexwale delivers his last speech before the Gauteng legislature, he will take responsibility for all the successes and the failures of the Gauteng government. He will also, privately, reflect on what he calls the complex […]

The foot soldiers of an economic empire in decline plod on, writes Andrew Higgins Electronic panels flashing orange-coloured numbers crack the calm of the salaryman, dispirited foot soldier of an economic empire in retreat. The figures, on display in Tokyo’s financial district, relate not to the collapsing share prices of Japan’s brittle banks but something […]

Don Mkhwanazi continues the Central Energy Fund’s tradition of non-accountability, writes Mungo Soggot The Central Energy Fund’s handling of Emanuel Shaw II’s appointment to a lucrative state job signals disturbing levels of cronyism in this key state institution. The chair of the fund, Don Mkhwanazi, vouched for Shaw in the Liberian politician’s application for permanent […]