This weekend’s IFP national conference will look at ways for the party to consolidate its power in KwaZulu/Natal, report Ann Eveleth and Mehlo Mvelase The rumour mills have been peculiarly quiet this week in the run-up to the Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) national conference opening in Ulundi tonight. Party sources poured cold water on earlier […]
South Africa may have to forego its high-tech medical achievements in order to meet the needs of its many citizens. Rehana Rossouw reports Have a heart, says the head of Groote Schuur Hospital’s transplant unit, Dr Del Khan, to health authorities who are considering clamping down on high-tech surgery across the country. “Most people might […]
Gaye Davis URGING stronger sanctions against French President Jacques Chirac’s decision to resume South Pacific nuclear tests, a range of South African organisations have called on the government to sever military and nuclear ties with France. Spanning environmental groups and religious and human rights bodies, the organisations made the call in letters to Foreign Minister […]
Gauteng’s Security MEC Jessie Duarte is ready to defy the Constitution — if that’s what it takes to halt the spiral of taxi warfare, reports Jonathan Ancer Warring taxi drivers were warned this week that they would be denied bail if arrested. Speaking at a conference of the South African Long Distance Taxi Association (Saldta), […]
Rocky’s on a roll, and he’s doing his damnedest to shake off the moss of his past, reports Stefaans BrUmmer ROCKY MALEBANE-METSING — coup maker, would-be provincial premier, ANC ally turned thorn — has reinvented his role in politics. The vehicle for the emergence of the new Rocky is the “triple-P”, his People’s Progressive Party, […]
FINE ART: Ivor Powell BARELY a year ago, painter and collagist Sam=20 Nhlengethwa was being hyped as the future of South=20 African art. His collages, it seemed, fitted into an=20 important cultural project: the reclamation, via the=20 found object, of an authentic urban African experience=20 from the distortions of history. His latest exhibition, at the […]
Anne Eveleth Pietermaritzburg Mayor Rob Haswell’s call this week for the Durban-Maritzburg corridor to become South Africa’s 10th province — divided by soft boundaries from the rest of conflict-ridden KwaZulu/Natal — has struck at the heart of the incessant demarcation wrangles stalling Durban’s local government process. Won by the African National Congress in last year’s […]
Jonathan Ancer Rasping Rocker Joe Cocker could be the nemesis of Riani De Wet, North-West Province’s MEC for Media, Arts and This week, the 27-year-old ANC MEC was battling for her political survival amid allegations that she had used government funds to hire a plane to take her and her friends to Joe Cocker’s concert […]
In an intriguing Coca-Cola Cup final clash, the=20 Orlando Pirates attackers come up against the=20 unyielding Wits defenders SOCCER: Nelson Rashava CAN sheer skill overcome motivation, commitment and=20 perseverance on the big occasion? Will Orlando Pirates=20 regain their confidence and verve after a drab display=20 against Bloemfontein Celtic? Can underdogs Wits=20 University sustain their dominance […]
In this further extract from the manuscript of former security policeman Paul Erasmus, he describes his experiences in then-South West Africa, where he did border duty working alongside Koevoet ONE day, our group was given supposedly reliable information of a suspect “terr” weapons smuggling network, which was using sympathetic Ovambo long- distance drivers to convey […]