Barry Streek Last-minute bargaining over the details of South Africa’s new gun control law continued this week, particularly over the numbers of weapons owned by people such as farmers and the protection of women and children in cases of violence. The latest amendments, due to be voted on in the safety and security portfolio committee […]
Thebe Mabanga and Ntuthuko Maphumulo It took R60-million, four years training, a 14-hour flight and one month down under for the South African Olympic heroes to return with only five medals. On Thursday they were welcomed at the Civic Theatre by a few invited guests, a clutch of curious bystanders and some Johannesburg municipality employees […]
Howard Barrell The crisis in the United Democratic Movement deepened this week as leaders of its two warring factions drew up battle lines and party president Bantu Holomisa prepared to visit its Eastern Cape stronghold to explain the suspension of the province’s leadership. Prime movers in the two factions – a “populist” faction headed by […]
President Thabo Mbeki and Tony Leon have been writing to each other again, arguing over HIV/Aids. They found a lot else to disagree about. Their latest correspondence, 54 pages of it, much of it technical medical and legal argument, was tabled in Parliament on Thursday. We publish excerpts You may … be unaware of the […]
carrying these days Nawaal Deane and Roshila Pillay It’s a liquorice allsorts bag of tricks when it comes to guns nowadays. You can get a pink-coated gun with a gold grip, or for a less fashion-conscious gunslinger, a pistol with sliding action and automatic reload. Gun ownership is soaring, at just over 190 000 yearly, […]
weapons Nawaal Deane and Roshila Pillay ‘Clear … aim… fire!” shouts the instructor, and with a series of explosive shots, the shooting session begins. A group of black 30-something women have discovered a new hobby: shooting. The shooting range is becoming a prime hang- out for women serious about protecting themselves. Standing in a row […]
innovations You know what you want. So just asking for it could be a lot simpler than having to go out, scour an auction website like ebay.com and then bid on it. M-Web has introduced an interesting twist on the now-familiar auction site in the form of iWant. You post your desire and sellers then […]
Iden Wetherell When Zimbabwe concluded its bloody election campaign in June the country heaved a sigh of relief as a return to normality beckoned. With more than 30 dead and thousands beaten and displaced in the ruling Zanu-PF party’s campaign of rural terror, it was hoped the country would at last find some peace. That […]
HOWARD BARRELL, Cape Town | Friday PRESIDENT Thabo Mbeki believes the United States Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) is part of a conspiracy to promote the view that HIV causes Aids. Mbeki also thinks that the CIA is working covertly alongside the big US pharmaceutical manufacturers to undermine him because, by questioning the link between HIV […]
PAUL KIRK, Johannesburg | Friday POLICE are investigating six cases of sexual assault and several instances of child abuse and neglect at a state-sponsored place of safety – a refuge for abandoned children – in Durban. A member of the public, Kobus Swart, says orphans, crippled children and welfare cases were being kept in the […]