M&G reporters A group of American private investors on Monday made a last minute attempt to rescue the $5-billion satellite telephone service Iridium, which was forced into liquidation last Friday. Iridium, which has United States electronic giant Motorola as a shareholder and backer, was set a deadline of last Friday by the court to attract […]
Barry Streek The South African Human Rights Commission (HRC) has strongly criticised the government for not taking it seriously, accusing some ministers of regarding it as a nuisance and condemning Parliament for not giving its reports meaningful attention. The 1999 HRC report, which has been tabled in Parliament, says the commission believes there is “a […]
after trial A victim of police torture was assassinated soon after his attackers were convicted Cheryl Goodenough Hours after a rural KwaZulu-Natal court found that former Impendle resident Mfaniseni Radebe had been viciously assaulted in 1997 – an electric current from a battery had been sent through clamps attached under his arms and on to […]
Two men are gunned down and the killer disappears. Thirty years later one cop becomes obsessed with the case and finally tracks him down Philip Gourevitch On November 15 1944, an army deserter named Frank Gilbert Koehler was arrested for burglary in New York City. Frankie, as he liked to be called, was 15, so […]
Food’s got to be fun, it’s got to be tasty – but it doesn’t have to be cooked by Jamie Oliver Charlotte Raven Jamie Oliver is a phenomenon. His programme, The Naked Chef, is the unexpected hit of the moment and his status as a Nineties icon has been confirmed by everyone, from the critics […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Kingston | Friday 9.00pm. MURRAY Goodwin and his captain Andy Flower steered Zimbabwe out of early trouble on the first day of the second Test against West Indies on Friday. Goodwin reached 65 not out and Flower 23 not out as Zimbabwe recovered from a lunch score of 40 for three to 119 […]
SEVEN bus passengers have been killed and at least 80 others were injured in an accident near Mossel Bay. The bus they were travelling in reportedly plunged 30m down an embankment early on Friday morning. The vehicle’s brakes failed. The injured were ferried by ambulance to the Mossel Bay provincial hospital. The privately owned transport […]
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Alison Powell on Girl, Interrupted and the American art of going mildly, stylishly loopy.
SOUTH Africa has unveiled a collector’s gold coin depicting “Little Foot,” a hominid who lived 3.3 million years ago. The coin, nominally worth R2, contains a quarter of an ounce of 24 carat gold, and will sell for R800. Only 1000 are being produced. Little Foot, one of South Africa’s greatest palaeontological discoveries, lived in […]