Rehana Rossouw PW BOTHA could face two years behind bars if he remains opposed to testifying before the Truth and Reconciliation Commission after it begins its work next year. His defiant refusal this week to “repent” before the commission could see him falling foul of the law. The Promotion of National Unity and Reconciliation Act […]

FORMER Witwatersrand attorney-general Klaus von Lieres und Wilkau, who says he retired because of ill-health earlier this year, is back in harness. He has been retained by a firm of attorneys in Alberton to appear for former KwaZulu policemen who are among the accused in the KwaMakutha trial and will make an appearance in the […]

The government has retreated behind a wall of silence to wrestle with the Nigerian issue, writes Gaye Davis FEARS of ruffling the feathers of African leaders and of being seen as acting as an agent of western governments abrogating their own moral responsibility dominated top-level government talks on the Nigerian situation this week. Led by […]

The National Gallery’s exhibition of images of District Six is a valuable reconstruction of our collective memory, writes NEVILLE DUBOW Question: Name the place in Cape Town that was destroyed and where the residents were forcibly emoved to the Cape Town townships? Answer: District Six Question: Name the building that was erected through the heart […]

David Beresford THE most powerful indictment of the death penalty ever produced in South Africa is arguably Alan Paton’s Cry the Beloved Country. But the man who plays the central role in the latest screen version of the novel has made a passionate appeal to Nelson Mandela: Hang them high! Eric “Waku” Miyeni, the comedian, […]

Bronwen Roberts THE South African Association of Municipal Employees (Saame) has sought an urgent meeting with Eastern Cape Local Government MEC Max Mamase following his announcement that several hundred white municipal workers are to be replaced by blacks. Chairman of the Eastern Cape Saame branch Johan Crafford said this week the union is concerned the […]

Black is beautiful, but that doesn’t mean local black models are getting assignments, finds Hazel Friedman BLACK might be beautiful and local downright lekker, but in the ramp ‘n vamp world of modeldom, black is black, local is local, and rarely the twain do meet. While most of the white beaus and babes gracing the […]

Joe Slovo describes his relationship with Ruth First, in the second of our series of extracts from his unfinished autobiography WHILE studying for my LLB, I was employed in the offices of Jack Levitan, an attorney. Early in 1948 he sent me to assist advocate Fred Zwarenstein in the defence of the Lefela brothers in […]

THE government in the Eastern Cape, one of South Africa’s most impoverished regions, has started a monthly newspaper with a projected budget of more than R1-million for the next six months. Acting premier Smuts Ngonyama said the Eastern Cape Review, launched in Bisho on Wednesday, would be a vehicle for communication, focusing on development issues. […]

The government is finally addressing the tertiary education crisis brought on by students unable to pay fees, reports Philippa Garson THE government will contribute a record sum of around R260-million towards a new loans fund to aid needy students next year — ; a sum five times greater than the R55-million set aside by the […]