The latest discovery adds weight to the call for an inquiry into Swiss relations with the apartheid regime Evidence wa ka Ngobeni Former apartheid president PW Botha secretly awarded the highest national honours to Swiss industrialists for supplying the apartheid regime against a United Nations arms embargo with war matriel. Some details of the secret […]

Zenzile Khoisan Western Cape police chief Lennit Max this week refused to answer claims that he met National Intelligence Agency (NIA) officials as his detectives were gearing up to investigate an alleged cover-up by the same officials. The Mail & Guardian last week reported on an affidavit by Andr Lincoln, the suspended top policeman who […]

If the former champion fails on Saturday his legendary trainer could go down with him Richard Williams Manny Steward will be in Lennox Lewis’s dressing room on Saturday, taping the fighter’s hands with tender care. Steward’s will be the last words Lewis hears before entering the ring in Las Vegas to recapture his world heavyweight […]

Paul Kirk has been led astray. He writes that “12 Hawks will cost the country an estimated minimum of US$1-billion”. The actual contract price for 24 Hawks is 323,83-million plus R634,68-million for South African sub-systems. Translating that into United States dollars at the present exchange rates comes to about US$540,48-million for 24 Hawks, not US$1 […]

Marianne Merten A large number of the 10 000 objections by fundamentalist Christians to the proposed revised school curriculum appear dubious as the post office has so far returned 600 of the government’s acknowledgment-of-receipt letters marked “address unknown”. The letter campaign was started by several Christian organisations that asked followers to submit their objections. Last […]

Mungo Soggot The Park Hyatt, a plush Johannesburg hotel that prides itself on its black empowerment credentials, has given marching orders to seven black chauffeurs who have serviced the hotel since it was built in 1995. The chauffeurs used to work for different taxi companies but last year the Hyatt came to an informal, written […]

MUNGO SOGGOT, Johannesburg | Friday THE Park Hyatt, a plush Johannesburg hotel that prides itself on its black empowerment credentials, has given marching orders to seven black chauffeurs who have serviced the hotel since it was built in 1995. The chauffeurs used to work for different taxi companies but last year the Hyatt came to […]

MORE than 7 600 weapons recovered by UN peacekeepers during the disarmament of ex-combatants in Sierra Leone were destroyed on Monday in the capital, Freetown, the UN Mission in Sierra Leone (Unamsil) reported. The event marked the beginning of the second phase of Unamsil’s weapon’s destruction exercise, which is expected to continue until 10 December. […]

Algiers | Friday THE death toll from storms that lashed northern Algeria at the weekend swelled to 701 on Thursday, as rescue workers pulled another 50 bodies from mountains of mud and debris in the capital. Officials said 651 people died in Algiers, where the working-class neighbourhood of Bab El Oued bore the brunt of […]

MARIANNE MERTEN, Cape Town | Friday IN a further twist in the machiavellian manoeuvrings of Cape politics, the Democratic Alliance is forcing its New National Party councillors to resign from the NNP before the end of the year – or lose their jobs. The DA is amending its interim constitution to ban dual party membership, […]