Peter Dickson Four months after being suspended for allegedly running over and killing a teenager who had been dragged behind a patrol van, three Barkly East policemen are to be tried for culpable homicide and additional charges ranging from assault to attempting to defeat the ends of justice. The Independent Complaints Directorate (ICD) has announced […]
Laws banning cellphone use by drivers are not yet being implemented Evidence wa ka Ngobeni, Pule waga Mabe, and Ntuthuko Maphumulo Traffic officials across the country have yet to implement the government’s tough new laws banning the use of cellphones while on the road and lowering the drinking limit for drivers. The new National Road […]
Sechaba ka’Nkosi The embattled Law Society of the Transvaal this week deferred a long-awaited election of its office bearers to 2001 in a move that could stall the transformation of one of the last remaining apartheid-era institutions in South Africa. The society’s bizarre decision comes in the wake of mounting calls for change from many […]
Grant Shimmin olympics On Wednesday, August 16, Sam Ramsamy, president of the country’s National Olympic Committee (Nocsa), will read out a list of track and field athletes at a press conference and, barring injuries to members of the teams within the overall squad which necessitate calling up a replacement, South Africa’s Olympic travelling party will […]
In June MPs heard that domestic covert collection activities had stopped in 1996 – they were lied to Howard Barrell Defence force intelligence has continued to collect information covertly inside South Africa despite a ministerial undertaking to Parliament that it ceased doing so in late 1996. Its covert domestic intelligence activities have included surveillance and […]
Khadija Magardie It is not difficult to find Dr Alan Peter, despite the sheer vastness that is Chris Hani Baragwanath hospital in Soweto. “You mean the white moruti [Sesotho for doctor] who lives in Soweto?” people will say, and point you in whatever direction the youthful, friendly doctor may be doing his daily rounds. The […]
Roshila Pillay A battered guitar, an ethnic Dogon drum (all the way from Mali) and a beautiful silver flute compete for centre stage. The powerful beat, soulful strumming and high-pitched strains of the flute set an upbeat African tribal tone. Three students walk to the front of the classroom at the Atteridgeville Technical College to […]
by a thread Gregory Mthembu-Salter Southern African Development Community (SADC) heads of state say they will meet in Lusaka next Monday with other signatories of the Lusaka peace accords to discuss the war in the Democratic Republic of Congo following Congolese leader Laurent Desir Kabila’s failure to attend the recent SADC summit in Windhoek. The […]
David Beresford Another Country Some years ago I had my first book published – the realisation of which had been a childhood ambition and the experience of which turned me against it as a profession. The publisher so far exceeded civilised parameters of incompetence that I was seized with the idea I had fallen victim […]
It is time to turn our attention away from academic debates and look to the role of men in the spread of the disease Suzanne Leclerc-Madlala There is a mystery at the heart of the Aids epidemic in Africa that scholars have explored but have been unable to explain. This mystery has nothing to do […]