you how I kill kaffirs’ A Free State court heard this week of the eight-hour ordeal of two Eskom workers at the hands of a local farmer Glenda Daniels The dusty clock in the court did not work, the skewed no-smoking sign – stuck on with Prestik – was upside down and the proceedings took […]
innovations You may or may not have heard of Echelon, but it has almost certainly heard of you. It’s a shadowy international intelligence-sharing network run by Western governments, in which they avoid legal restrictions on spying on their own systems by asking partner governments to do it for them. Duncan Campbell wrote a report for […]
army ‘deviants’ Paul Kirk Dr Aubrey Levin, the army psychiatrist who ran a bizarre programme to “cure” gay conscripts, has been linked to secretly – and illegally – testing drugs on homosexuals and other “deviants” in the South African Defence Force (SADF). Human rights lawyer Jenny Wild this week described Levin’s tests on conscripts at […]
Khadija Magardie The South African Communist Party has launched disciplinary proceedings against one of its senior members, freelance journalist Dale McKinley, for allegedly bringing the party and its alliance partners into disrepute. McKinley is set to be grilled on Friday August 11 for more than two hours by a panel made up of the top […]
Thebe Mabanga in your ear Radio’s contribution to the growth in club culture over the past decade has been immense. When one thinks of the late Ian Segola and Quincy Kekana at the then Radio Metro 576MW, as well as Auldrin Mokgotsi at Radio Bop 540MW, it is hard to believe how much the phenomenon […]
The Farrelley brothers’ new filthfest Me, Myself and Irene opened last week. John Patterson hails its lavatorial lineage.
EGYPTIAN women are looking for more and more ingenious “anti-lecher weapons” to ward off bottom-pinchers and arm-strokers in Cairo’s buses and cinemas, the weekly Al-Ahram Hebdo has reported. Marwa, a 22-year-old student, told the paper she had to threaten to hit a man with one of her shoes before he stopped pressing himself against her […]
AN 11-year-old American boy was attacked and killed last month by a hyena while he was sleeping in a tent during a safari in Botswana’s Moremi Game Reserve, a tour operator has told a local news agency. Reports yesterday named the boy as Mark Garrat Shea, from Baltimore. Bridget Hedges, a spokesperson for Botswana tour […]
The Johannesburg Stock Exchange has suspended the listing of retailer Q Mart Holdings Ltd’s ordinary shares at the request of its directors. – Reuters 09
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Thursday EUGENE Terre’Blanche, the firebrand leader of the far-right Afrikaner Resistance Movement (AWB) who was jailed six months ago for assaulting a black man, is likely to be freed on bail as early as Monday. Terre’Blanche was granted bail of R5000 rand by a Pretoria High Court judge on Thursday pending […]