FRIDAY, 1.00PM: JOMO COSMOS have signed Cape Town Spurs defender Sebastiao Rodrigues for R70 000. Rodrigues will fill in the gap left by Andrew Rabutla, who joined an overseas club recently. “Sebastiao is physically strong and skillful. That’s the reason I went for him,” said Cosmos chairman Matsilele Jomo Sono. Meanwhile, Orlando Pirates have signed […]
Political rivals could be discovering a way to peace through a growing sense of Zulu nationalism, writes Eddie Koch IT may just be that the troubled people of KwaZulu-Natal will find their peace not through delicate diplomacy or a tough approach to law and order, but because the ebb and flow of two less tangible […]
certificates Justin Arenstein THE Northern Province government is investigating allegations that mortuary staff have been taking bribes to change death certificates, and to channel business to specific funeral companies. The provincial health department’s director general, Dr Nicholas Crisp, said this week the investigation is focused on the Pietersburg police forensic mortuary. His colleagues in the […]
Deciding on a Gauteng premier is likely to be a nerve-racking process, writes Wally Mbhele TWO candidates are tied in a neck-and-neck challenge for the premiership of Gauteng – and the final outcome is expected this weekend at a meeting of the leaders of the province’s African National Congress and its alliance partners. Arriving at […]
It is hard to reconcile the current upheaval on the African continent with the optimistic scenario of imminent revival put about by the Clinton administration and its South African variant, Deputy President Thabo Mbeki’s notion of an African renaissance. Angola is poised to go back to war. Hutu refugees are being slaughtered in Eastern Congo […]
Speaking at Wits university at the weekend, Kenyan writer Ngugi wa Thiong’o examined the role of intellectuals and European languages in African development AN intellectual is a worker in ideas, with words as the primary means of production. Ideas are constructed in specific languages, and if we believe that ideas are important in development, in […]
Peta Thornycroft STORIES are emerging about the dying days of Zaire, now the Democratic Republic of Congo, and how South African mercenaries and desperadoes tried to make a quick buck out of the tottering regime of Mobutu Sese Seko. As rebel leader Laurent Kabila’s men prepared their final march on Kinshasa, Mobutu loyalists were in […]
FILMGOERS can sup at a feast of independent cinema playing for the next two weeks in Johannesburg, arriving in Durban on July 15 and in Cape Town on July 28. Here are some of the best: The Funeral (Abel Ferrara, 1996) This 1930s-set gangster pic finds fierce and furiously transgressive director Ferrara on strangely penitent […]
FIVE lucky readers of the M&G’s books pages are winners in our giveaway of Edmund White’s brand new novel, The Farewell Symphony, published by Chatto &Windus. They are:Rose Cohen, Killarney; YFrame, Riviera; RHLloyd, Botha’s Hill; Mahluli Mngadi, Seapoint; and Kopano Ratele, Rondebosch. Congratulations and happy reading -your books are on their way to you. Look […]
Wonder Hlongwa and Mukoni T Ratshitanga THE Inkatha Freedom Party has closed three of its 14 national offices, amid a cash crunch caused by falling membership fees. Senior IFP officials say the party, due to hold its annual conference in Ulundi this weekend, has been hit by poor management and administration and a breakdown in […]