Marion Edmunds A black female SABC employee, Hope Zindle, has been charged with assault and intent to commit grievous bodily harm after she grabbed a white colleague, Janet Szabo, around the throat. The matter is being heard in Brixton Magistrate’s Court where Zindle has pleaded not guilty to the charge. The case has provoked a […]

M&G reporter AN investigation against South Africa’s top detective, Priority Crimes Unit head Assistant Commisioner Karel `Suiker’ Brits, has failed to uncover sufficient evidence that he neglected to bring to book police members linked to apartheid crimes. KwaZulul-Natal police reporting officer Advocate Neville Melville was asked last year by Safety and Security secretary Azhar Cachalia […]

Karen Harverson Once exchange controls are lifted, the South African investment community’s interest in offshore opportunities will snowball, says Syfrets Group chief executive Christopher Beatty, speaking at a launch this week of new international investment products. However, he cautioned that investors need to react quickly to changes in the international economy and understand the risks […]

Lynda Loxton The Katz Commission was slated last week for not going far enough in recommending a special tax dispensation for employee share ownership programmes (ESOPs). Msele Corporate and Merchant Bank joint managing director Litha Nyhonyha told the parliamentary joint standing committee on finance that the commission had missed a unique opportunity to promote ESOPs, […]

Eddie Koch Griqua leaders have sent a letter to President Nelson Mandela to back demands for the bones of a 19th-century chief to be returned and reburied after they were dug up by researchers from Wits University more than 30 years ago. The Griqua National Conference this week sent a statement to M&G saying it […]

Private sector investment is on the up, but may not be sufficient to generate real economic activity, writes Simon Segal Nedcor’s Economic Unit estimates that R137-billion will be spent on capital expenditure by the year 2001. This is 20% higher than estimates of R114-billion a year ago for the five year period to 2000. The […]

According to evidence in the Eugene de Kock trial, a 1985 necklacing much touted by the Nat government for propaganda was the unforeseen result of a police dirty tricks operation, writes David Among the thousands of killings which marked the townships rebellion of the 1980s, none was more tragic or, in its impact on world […]

FINE ART: Ruth Sack IT was half my life ago that I spent three terrified years as Cecily Sash’s student at Wits University, and the terror by last week had barely abated. How, I asked myself, can the mortally dangerous Miss Sash be making pictures of hedgerows? English country hedgerows? Well, she does them with […]

On Monday, SABC television undergoes a radical facelift. HAZEL FRIEDMAN surfs the revamped channels for something worth watching IT can hardly be described as a blushing bride — a hastily rouged matron is more appropriate — but there is definitely something old, something new, something borrowed and, in places, something slightly blue about the new […]

Andrew Sillen The storage and study of human body parts has stimulated intense debate, pitting scientists and museum authorities, on the one hand, against ethnic, national, and religious groups on the other. But, the issues are not always The issue first emerged in North America, where the violent history of expansion has created an enduring […]