Rehana Rossouw MARTIN WELZ, editor of noseWEEK, is one of a kind. His one-man-band magazine is the only investigative journal in the country, despite the fact that it is run from his home. This is the first time noseWEEK has been taken to court, despite the publication’s record of exposing information many would prefer remained […]
funds? Hazel Friedman Pact employees are adamant that Arts and Culture Minister Dr Ben Ngubane was fully aware that staff members who had received generous “severance pay packages” were still employed by Pact. But the minister denies it. The Mail & Guardian revealed the “slush fund” scandal on March 1. Ngubane responded by saying he […]
Pieter-Dirk Uys, South Africa’s most playful political commentator, digs into the truth commission in an effort to define what is true and what is just another aspect of reality THROUGHOUT our lives, I bet you, we’ve all at one time or another sweated before a truth commission. As small children, in front of the giggling […]
The Kenyans dominated the world cross country championships once again, but the organisers were the real winners ATHLETICS: Julian Drew SOUTH AFRICA’S aspirations to host the world’s top sporting events received a significant boost after last Saturday’s world cross country championships in Stellenbosch which many experienced observers considered the best they had ever attended. The […]
David Beresford The government appears to be hastily back- pedalling on an extraordinary plan to build a gigantic monument — at a cost of some R50- million — modelled on President Nelson Mandela’s hand as a “beacon of freedom” for South Africa. The disembodied hand, standing 23 metres in height and “breaking out of jail […]
DNA testing may be the only solution to the furore surrounding the ‘skull’ of Chief Hintsa, recently discovered in Scotland. Eddie Koch reports The controversial “head” of Chief Hintsa, which has been brought back to South Africa, will become the subject of an intriguing scientific study mixing high-tech genetic analysis with Xhosa oral history. Hintsa […]
Without financial back-up and in defiance of Parliament and the IBA, BopBC is going it alone, reports Jacquie Golding-Duffy With only days to go before the Bophuthatswana Broadcasting Corporation (BopBC) is obliged to integrate with the SABC, the broadcaster, once the mouthpiece of Lucas Mangope, is defiantly going it alone, outside of the Independent Broadcasting […]
As the Nigerian crisis increases and more students face the wrath of the regime, little help from Africa or the West appears forthcoming. Gaye Davis reports WHEN the telephone rang in Austin Abada’s sparsely furnished Cape Town flat this week, it heralded news as familiar as it was terrible. Abada, a Nigerian student leader seeking […]
Ricardo Dunn The Department of Correctional Services will hold an inquiry into the death in custody of rightwinger Lood van Schalkwyk. Right-wing groups have accused the Government of National Unity of negligence after the death of van Schalkwyk. The groups claimed this week that the Correctional Services authorities knew of Van Schalkwyk’s serious gall-bladder infection, […]
lively in Rome TENNIS: Jon Swift THERE is, provided you are not a tennis player, something remarkably special about Rome. The city lives. This vibrancy in the very air you breathe in the Italian capital is in sharp contrast to the stadium where the nation plays its tennis. The Foro Italico is as dead as […]