Enoch Mthembu THE only life that Daluxolo Luthuli has known is that of a professional fighter. He joined Umkhonto weSizwe at the age of 14 and since then has taken part in numerous armed operations, first for the ANC and then for Inkatha. Luthuli went into exile in the early 1960s and received military training […]

Despite the collapse of USAfrica, the domestic airline business is not saturated, reports Andre van Zyl Paradoxically, the collapse of United States airline USAfrica has focused attention on the domestic airline business in South Africa. Is there enough room for everybody? A quick runaround of some of the local airlines suggested that, contrary to conventional […]

Reg Rumney speaks to the Jayendra Naidoo, director of the National Economic, Development and Labour Council, which will be launched tomorrow. The very name of the National Economic Development and Labour Council portends one of its first problems. Quite simply, there are high expectations that this statutory successor to the National Economic Forum and the […]

Jan Taljaard in Pretoria FEELINGS are running high among former security police members after they were apparently told they have no real future in the new South African Police Service. Since being informed of serious cutbacks in the Crime Intelligence Service (CIS), many of its members are now threatening to disclose sensitive information that they […]

Black pupils near Durban take their struggle into an Indian township. Farouk Chothia reports ONGOING violence at a black school in Amaoti, near Durban, spilled over into the adjacent Indian township of Phoenix this week with Indian pupils being attacked by black pupils. A large group of pupils from Amaoti’s Amandlethu Secondary School, some armed […]

Former police commander Eugene de Kock’s trial next week promises a taste of things to come, reports Stefaans Brummer TOP police officers and politicians will be watching closely when Eugene Alexander de Kock goes on trial in Pretoria on Monday. A number of them have been implicated in the “Third Force” misdeeds for which the […]

Gaye Davis CONTINUING unhappiness in party ranks over the National Party’s blurred identity and lack of direction are expected to come to a head at its caucus meeting in Stellenbosch tomorrow. NP sources discounted the possibility of a split but indicated NP leader FW de Klerk would face a challenge from a “new right” coalescing […]

Eddie Koch visits a northern Cape army base with land minister Derek Hanekom THE owner of a game lodge in Namibia which goes under the name “Intu Afrika”, called up the Schmidtsdrift army base last year, and asked to borrow some bushmen who could perform their ancient traditions for tourists on his farm. Schmidtsdrift army […]

Hugh Lewin, who spent seven years in the Sixties as a political prisoner in Pretoria, joined last weekend’s gathering of some 1 200 ex-political prisoners for a reunion on Robben Island IT IS a weekend of rituals. The ritual of resurrecting the ghosts, re-uniting them, dancing with them from lime quarry to cell-block, and (perhaps […]

Katz commission member Pierre du Toit argues that critics haven’t read the report SOUTH Africa is finding that tax reform within a real democracy is very different from the old days. Regardless of the Katz Commission’s specific terms, submissions came from a much wider representation of society and were much more fundamental than those received […]