MONDAY, 9.00PM: THE official record of Parliament will in future be published in four languages, rather than just in English, it has been proposed. Hansard will be published in English and Afrikaans with immediate effect. From the beginning of next year’s session, it will also be produced in one Nguni language, and one Sotho language, […]
TUESDAY, 9.00AM: FORMER Bophuthatswana president Lucas Mangope, on trial on multiple counts of fraud and theft totalling over R18-million, was told in the Mmabatho High Court on Monday that he has been an unsatisfactory witness who gave “irrelevant, repetitive and extremely evasive evidence”, and who at times told outright lies that did his credibility no […]
MONDAY 10.00AM: NOW that the euphoria around President Nelson Mandela’s secret wedding to Graa Machel has died down, questions are being asked as to the wisdom of the official denials that preceded the Saturday ceremony at Mandela’s Houghton, Johannesburg home. The Mail & Guardian two weeks ago reported that the president was to marry on […]
MONDAY, 2.00PM: THE future of Correctional Services Minister Sipo Mzimela is currently under discussion in a meeting between President Nelson Mandela, Deputy President Thabo Mbeki and Home Affairs Minister Mangosuthu Buthelezi. Presidential spokesman Parks Mankahlana said: “The three [Mandela, Mbeki and Buthelezi] are eager that any change in government should happen in the least disruptive […]
William Fotheringham Tour de France When Jan Ullrich effectively won the Tour de France in the second week of racing last year, his performance was so dominating that there were those, notably the five-times winner Bernard Hinault, who hailed the 23-year-old German as the man who would win the Tour into the millennium and beyond. […]
Tamar Kahn As the rand lurches into the land of Monopoly money, lawyers are among the few people still smiling. Not because they had the foresight to invest in foreign currency, but because they see the bony fingers of bankruptcy collecting record numbers of clients. Bankruptcy has an ominous ring, bringing to mind Dickensian scenes […]
disruptions’ Heidi Clark Community leader Freddie Brown says the 350 “squatters” who have made their home under the tall pine trees on a hill in Wilderness have lived in the area since the 1920s and feel they have a right to be there. The setting is idyllic, but for the fact that they are forced […]
Saliem Fakir discusses the pros and cons of the proposed environmental management legislation The National Environmental Management Bill, released recently by the Department of Environmental Affairs and Tourism, is a significant contribution to the evolution of environmental management. It may well have shortcomings, particularly given the time frame in which it was drafted, but its […]
John Fordham Panthalassa was the name given to the ocean surrounding the primordial, unbroken continent. If Bill Laswell, the gifted producer and sometime free- jazz bass player, hears Miles Davis’s 1970s music as an “ocean of sound”, he’s gone to considerable lengths to reinforce the point on the remarkable Panthalassa: The Music of Miles Davis […]
crackers Nic Turner The word hacker is enough to strike fear into anyone’s heart, but the South African Tiger Team Initiative (Satti) is trying to change that. They are at pains to make a distinction between enthusiast programmers – hackers – and their criminal counterparts – crackers. To help spread the word, Satti organised Zacon, […]