Bafana Khumalo WHAT the bloody hell am I doing here? I am on an Air Force base tarmac and am about to catch a cold from the rain that has been building up from a gentle drizzle to a serious body-drenching downpour. “Well, I am doing Gallagher and thereafter I don’t think that I am […]

Gauteng is cheesed off at its slice of the national=20 revenue pie. Reg Rumney reports The Gauteng government may have to find R1,2-billion this=20 year to get its sums right. That is the shortfall between=20 the money Gauteng will get from the central government=20 and its own revenue and spending.=20 It might have to borrow […]

Moveable Feast Marino Corazza IN time I’ll have the guts to rip Africa out of my heart.=20 I have this strange romantic notion that I’ll retire in=20 Sardinia. Not as the Aga Khan’s neighbour on the Costa=20 Smerelda, but at some forgotten spot on the coast,=20 surrounded by silver granite, fragrant woods, craggy=20 reefs, emerald-clear […]

The violence that devastated kwaZulu/Natal in the early Nineties had a sequel in court as KZP members revealed their role in the killings. Ann Eveleth reports PART 1 THE year is 1992. The ANC has been unbanned for almost two years. Political activists have emerged from the underground. Labour union activity is in high gear, […]

Jacques Magliolo Engen has intensified its thrust for exploration and=20 production of oil in West Africa in an attempt to stem=20 declining profits and to rectify a free-falling share=20 The chemical and oil giant’s 1994 financial year saw a=20 13,6 percent drop in earnings per share and its share=20 price has fallen from a 1993 […]

PAC President Clarence Makwetu used Sharpeville Day to remind people that nothing much had changed in South Africa. This is an edited version of his speech The day Comrade Mandela was inaugurated in May last year, we watched with interest the fly-past. Here was the South African air force demonstrating its might. Here was the […]

Native tongue Bafana Khumalo ‘I HATE these bloody coconuts, I wish somebody would shoot them,” she said as she viciously ground out a half-smoked cigarette with the heel of her shoe. I had never come across this word coconut before and I was certain that my companion would explain its meaning to me. Her name […]

You have to hand it to Winnie Mandela. She is unmatched for fighting power. Not only is she back on her feet and fighting back when everyone had counted her out, but she seems to be stronger than ever. She is the Mohammed Ali of the ANC, though Ali limited himself to three returns to […]

Pat Sidley THE old boys’ club of the church’s anti-apartheid movement had a celebration this week — to acknowledge Beyers Naude’s 80th birthday. At the celebration, which took place near Sharpeville, the World Council of Churches, South African Council of Churches and All Africa Council of Churches indulged what the human memory does best — […]

Gaye Davis A TRIUMPHANT Winnie Mandela is weighing up launching a civil suit for damages against Minister of Safety and Security Sydney Mufamadi, sources close to the deputy minister of Arts, Culture, Science and Technology indicated this week. She consulted with her lawyer, Templeton Mageza, on Wednesday to “discuss the way forward” after the Rand […]