Archaic technology is hampering police efforts to catch the Cleveland serial killer, reports Wiseman Khuzwayo ARCHAIC computer systems have slowed down the identification of most of the victims of the Cleveland serial killer. And the lack of identification of the victims has hampered the search for the killer. The police have so far managed to […]

A frustrated new minister of water affairs warns his civil servants that he expects attitudes to change, or else reports Paul Stober THE first clear sign of problems between new cabinet ministers and old-guard civil servants has emerged in a scathing speech by Water Affairs and Forestry Minister Kader Asmal to his department. The Weekly […]

COME Not everybody who wants to see the Currie Cup final will be able to do so in Bloemfontein and that’s how its going to be at the World Cup too RUGBY: Jon Swift FREE State’s insistence on holding the Currie Cup final at Springbok Park in Bloemfontein should the uncertainties of this weekend’s provincial […]

Gambling’s main players revealed their hands this week, but they’ll have to wait for the referee to call the game. Stefaans Brummer reports WITH only a week left for submissions on the future of gambling, the main players are caught in a flurry of posturing and positioning to carve as large as possible a slice […]

Cosatu and the ANC are determined to stem the rising tide of xenophobia, reports Drew Forrest RESISTANCE to hardline Home Affairs Ministry policy on illegal immigration is crystallising in both the ANC and its trade union ally, the Congress of South African Trade Unions. This week Cosatu’s Neil Coleman hit out at “the narrow chauvinism” […]

Wiseman Khuzwayo STOCK exchange whizzkid Greg Blank, now serving time for fraud, will be treated the same as any other prisoner, says the Department of Correctional Services. Blank began serving his eight-year sentence last Saturday after exhausting his opportunities to appeal against it. But South Africa does not have US-style special prisons for “white collar” […]

THEATRE: Guy Willoughby Put together by its six creators for a frankly polemical purpose, Manje (“Now”) protests the harsh and sordid conditions that women in South African prisons have had to endure. If that sounds a rather daunting drawcard for an outing to the Civic Theatre, rest assured that this montage of mime, song, dialogue […]

Well-known figures have been blamed for the waste of millions of rands by the National Co-ordinating Committee for the Return of Exiles, says a confidential report. Wiseman Khuzwayo reports A CONFIDENTIAL report on the disbanded National Co- ordinating Committee for the Return of Exiles (NCCR) charges that the organisation was dogged by fraud and corruption […]

In his first interview since the royal shake-up, Prince Mcwayizeni Zulu talks to Ann Eveleth THERE was an emotive ritual outside King Goodwill Zwelithini’s palace gates last Tuesday to mark his rapprochement with Senior Prince Mcwayizeni Zulu. “In accordance with tradition, we each stood outside the palace gates and a man poured fire ash into […]