ATHLETICS: Julian Drew THIS year South African long distance track running has=20 finally emerged from the dark ages into which it=20 slipped during sporting isolation. For a nation which=20 is brimful of such talent, South Africa’s regression in=20 this domain was nowhere more glaringly illustrated than=20 by Matthews Temane’s national 5 000m record of=20 13:25.15. […]

HERE are extracts from Goldstone’s report given to then=20 president FW De Klerksome weks before the April=20 Commisssion of Inquiry regarding the prevention of=20 public violence and intimidation. Report to the=20 International Investigation Team. 1. Introduction 1.1 In the first report dated 18 March 1994, the=20 Commission set out prima facie evidence of the=20 involvement […]

The RDP Appearance: Jelly-like. Difficult to get a grip on, but=20 easy to mould into anything you want. Not to be confused with: The Reach for a Dream Project.=20 The Reconstruction and Development Programme is also a=20 warehouse of our hopes, but it promises much more than=20 a trip to Disneyland or a Hot Air […]

The labour ministry has brokered a compromise=20 on the stalled Labour Relations Bill,=20 report Eddie Koch and Marion Edmonds LABOUR Minister Tito Mboweni is set to break the=20 deadlock over the new Labour Relations Bill with a set=20 of compromises that have won broad support from=20 organised labour and also industry on flashpoint issues=20 which […]

The fiery bluster of right-wing farmers has given way=20 to a more pragmatic approach over the new labour=20 tenants’ Bill, reports Eddie Koch EDDIE von Maltitz swaggered around with a 9mm=20 parabellum strapped to his waist. The vierkleur,=20 pennant of the ultra-right, was flying at the entrance.=20 And murmurs of malcontent rumbled through the ranks […]

Mapula Sibanda and Jonathan Ancer report on how ex- freedom fighters are using their military skills in=20 security companies When the South African National Defence Force (SANDF)=20 called on former freedom fighters to be integrated into=20 a national army some members of the Alexandra Returnees=20 Support Committee (Arsco) were not enchanted by the=20 offer to […]

Rainbow volk It really was a motley collection of organisations that=20 came forward to represent the volk at their meeting=20 with Nelson Mandela last week — they ranged from the=20 Verkennersbeweging to Dames Aktueel and Jong Dames=20 Dinamiek, and from the Vereniging van Oranjewerkers to=20 the SA Voetplaat-Personeel Vereniging. What interested=20 the manne in the […]

Marion Edmunds POLITICAL parties have launched a massive manhunt for=20 50 000 politicians. Their talent scouts are trawling=20 townships, suburbs and villages this month to find=20 ideal candidates for the local government elections.=20 All the major political parties have started screening=20 potential candidates and all want the best of local=20 talent for themselves. The exact […]

ATHLETICS: Julian Drew SOUTH AFRICA’S top middle distance athlete got a far=20 from ideal send off at Jan Smuts Airport last week when=20 he flew to Europe to begin his campaign in preparation=20 for August’s world championships in Sweden. Shadrack Hoff and his coach Kenny Bouwer were checking=20 in for their flight when the sister […]

Rhoda Kadalie argues that the anti-abortion arguments=20 of Christian fundamentalists are biblically unsound THE march to Parliament in the last week of May was not=20 only to protest against the exclusion of the words=20 ”Almighty God” in the final Constitution, and the=20 liberalisation of the Constitution with regard to=20 abortion, pornography and prostitution — it […]