Ted Leggett In yet another move limiting the flow of information between the police and the public, Commissioner Jackie Selebi has announced a moratorium on the release of certain crime statistics and threatened to fire those police members who communicate with the media. While he initially denied the existence of a moratorium, Selebi now asserts […]
With crime being South Africa’s most pressing problem, corruption within the police raises serious concern Piers Pigou At a recent conference in Cape Town on crime and human rights, the former South African ambassador to The Netherlands, Carl Niehaus, pointed out that the issue of dealing with incarcerated juveniles had not moved forward significantly since […]
Barry Streek An extraordinary claim that Western intelligence agencies, in particular the CIA and MI6, were behind the earliest phases of the armed struggle against apartheid in South Africa, was published this week. The claim, printed in the latest edition of the investigative magazine Noseweek, suggests that the Western intelligence agencies funded the National Committee […]
innovations An altogether new kind of Internet service has been created by Hypersend, for those occasions when you need to get a top priority document – of large proportions – from A to B without the delays and security risks involved in sending it via e-mail. The service simply requires you and the receiver to […]
After many years in the football wilderness, Lamontville Golden Arrows have been promoted to the Premier Soccer League Merryman Kunene If Lamontville Golden Arrows’ ascendancy to the Premier Soccer League was a straight- forward issue of clinching the MTN First Division Coastal Stream crown, then staying in the company of the elite boys will require […]
weapons deal Director Keith Mokoape’s personal stake in this lucrative deal is the latest in a series of scandals surrounding South Africa’s arms procurement Ivor Powell A director of the South African defence parastatal Armscor and former head of African National Congress military intelligence is the head of a newly formed company that stands to […]
National Women’s Day is important in continuing the struggle for women’s emancipation Baleka Mbete Seeing the veterans of the 1956 march on the Union Buildings on National Women’s Day had an invigorating effect. For as long as women do not yet enjoy most or all their human rights, we need National Women’s Day. This day […]
Home affairs botches permits for Mother Theresa’s missionaries Marianne Merten The government has given marching orders to three nuns of the late Mother Teresa’s Missionaries of Charity, who have been running an HIV/Aids care centre in Khayelitsha outside Cape Town. One Mission of Charity sister has been told to leave in January; another in July […]
Kathryn Smith WAYNE BARKER: ARTIST’S MONOGRAPH by Charl Blignaut (Chalkham Hill Press) Those familiar with “cutting edge” contemporary art, or the suburb of Troyeville, need no introduction to Wayne Barker. But for those who do, or who know him simply as a louche, conscientious objector-artist and one-time gallery owner who bears more than a passing […]
Andy Capostagno GOLF This has been an Oedipal year for professional golf. Before the new millennium was ushered in we knew Tiger Woods was good, but we didn’t know how good. Now Ernie Els has summed up the talent of the man by admitting that every other pro golfer on the planet is living in […]