The April 30 to May 7 edition of the Mail & Guardian carried a report headlined `NP leader in bizarre sex probe’. The National Party laid a complaint with the Press Ombudsman, Ed Linington, who decided on the matter last week. This was his decision: It is understandable that the National Party and its leader […]
It looks like I’ll have to throw out my computer. Or at least donate it to some institution I don’t really care for. Maybe if I take it apart and give away the components, the hex on the machine itself will be broken. For the past six months, I have been unable to access the […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Pretoria | Thursday 10.00PM. THE Pretoria High Court heard on Thursday that there is irrefutable proof that the prosecution failed to disclose relevant evidence in the trial of three young men who were convicted in 1994 for murdering a woman and two children in Eikenhof, south of Johannesburg It was also submitted that […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Dakar | Friday 11.00am. SOUTH African athletes have added three more gold medals to their haul at the African Athletics Championships in Dakar, Senegal, bringing their bag of gold medals to seven. Pole-valter Okkert Brits won the evnt with a vault of 5,40m, while Burger Lamprechts took the shot-put gold with a throw […]
Brenda Atkinson On exhibition in Johannesburg An exhibition of paintings and drawings by Lionel Abrams opened at the Standard Bank Gallery last week to warm tribute from local cultural luminaries. One of these, an article by Albie Sachs in the Sunday Independent, provided a poignant and poetic insight into the man who was Sachs’s friend […]
It’s been a long hot summer for Russian markets and just when relief appeared to be on the way with an International Monetary Fund (IMF)bail- out package of $22,6-billion, a new wave of panic sent the already brutalised financial markets into a tailspin. Economic fallout from the Russian crisis could spell political trouble. For European […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Friday 11.00am. ORLANDO Pirates signalled their aspirations to the Premiership soccer title when they beat Supersport United 1-0 at the Caledonian Stadium on Saturday. The match started off at a pedestrian pace but quickly gathered momentum which led to Dumi Ngobe scoring a brilliant goal in the 23rd minute. Defender Gerald […]
Nicci Gerrard First Person Things aren’t just discovered. They have to be needed as well. The Vikings reached America long before Columbus. But the Vikings had no use for America, the way that the Spanish Empire did. And there are other more intimate kinds of discovery. When John Donne wrote of: O my America, my […]
operatives 1996 Nobel Peace Prize winner Jos Ramos Horta has come out in support of Robert McBride, writes Wally Mbhele Documents presented to Mozambique’s Supreme Court by Robert McBride’s defence counsel allege that senior Mozambican police and military officers are involved in smuggling guns into South Africa. One of the two state witnesses, Alexandra Uamba […]
Tangeni Amupadhi A string of extraordinary coincidences surrounds the death of Josiah ”Fingers” Rabotapi, one of South Africa’s most industrious criminals, who was shot dead by police in a Sandown flat on Tuesday. Black officers charged with tracking Rabotapi – who was on the run after escaping from custody – were sent to search for […]