Some members of the NNP have expressed doubts about the DP’s approach to opposition Jaspreet Kindra Senior New National Party leader Renier Schoeman is on a roadshow in KwaZulu-Natal this week trying to quell the fears of members who remain sceptical of the alliance with the Democratic Party. Sources say Schoeman, executive director of the […]
Ilana Gordon LIFESTYLE They lie in wait at every traffic light. A veritable cocktail of vendors selling an astonishing array of bizarre Made-in-China trinkets. Exactly what are those round plastic things with the pegs attached? It’s either a state-of-the-art mobile for kids, or something to hang your little laundry bits on. My personal favourite is […]
Marianne Merten A key suspect behind the Cape transport conflict is a known taxi strongman who escaped trial in 1998 for multiple attempted murders and assaults after one witness was killed and others refused to testify. This had been the 13th time since 1993 that charges against Victor Sam, then secretary gene-ral of the Cape […]
Gavin Foster MOTORCYCLING Five-time world motorcycle champion Joey Dunlop was killed during an international race at Tallinn in Estonia last week. The 48-year-old Dunlop died instantly when he slid off the rain-drenched track and hit a tree while leading during the second lap of the 125cc race on his works Honda. Dunlop was untouchable on […]
Street traders involved in a high court case with members of two Durban mosques claim the worshippers themselves are often guilty of impairing the dignity of the places of worship Paul Kirk Worshippers at the largest mosque in the southern hemisphere have been accused of using prayer meetings as convenient opportunities to settle old scores […]
There is really no time left in which to dodge around the truth. South Africa has reimposed the death sentence. Once a world leader in judicial executions – until the moratorium of 1989 put a stop to hangings – the new South African government has brought back executive killing with a harsh vengeance. But this […]
Africa’s dreams of its first soccer World Cup were shattered this week as South Africa lost its bid to host the 2006 event by just one vote Mail & Guardian reporters and Sapa The First World trampled Africa’s hopes of staging its first soccer World Cup this week as Germany beat South Africa in a […]
Despite a clear policy on prison leave, Eugene Terre’Blanche was recently granted weekend parole while a seemingly deserving prisoner was not Lebo Malepe and Sammy Modiba It took a last-minute court application to get Phola Katisi to attend her brother’s funeral, while Eugene Terre’Blanche enjoyed 12 hours of freedom, courtesy of a bureaucratic mix-up in […]
The economic modelling unit is the brains behind the Reserve Bank’s inflation targeting policy David Le Page To each age, its anathema. Idolatry, witchcraft and the plague have been succeeded by inflation and so, deep within the glass monolith of the Reserve Bank and many floors up, we have an economic modelling unit. Theirs is […]
free’ in the Eastern Cape Peter Dickson The Port Elizabeth metropole, described by Minister of Safety and Security Steve Tshwete last month as “the rape capital of South Africa”, is to be the target of a top-level police research project into why less than 10% of the area’s rapists are caught and jailed. >From January […]