THE prosecutor of the UN warcrimes and genocide tribunals for the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda, Carla Del Ponte, said on Wednesday she would ask judges to hold some future trials directly in those countries. “It would be desirable that the (International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda – ICTR) could hold its trials directly in Kigali,” Carla […]

GRANTS for the elderly and the disabled are to increase only slightly, by R20 to R540 a month, Manuel announced in Parliament. The total welfare budget has been increased by approximately R1,25-billion to a total of R20,92-billion. Provincial welfare departments currently pay monthly benefits to more than three million of society’s most vulnerable beneficiaries, at […]

PARLIAMENTARIANS on Tuesday rained praise on former president Nelson Mandela at a special debate on his release from apartheid jails a decade ago and proposed that his bust be erected in the legislature. The proposal was mooted by ANC chief whip Tony Yengeni and supported by opposition politicians, who voiced as much admiration for Mandela […]

ALTHOUGH Queen “Iyaya” Sesoka, lead vocalist of popular Kwaito group Abashante, is still missing after disappearing on Tuesday, police say while they are aware of it, no missing person’s case has been reported. The 25-year-old singer’s disappearance took a strange turn on Friday when the Sowetan newspaper reported that a caller claiming he was in […]

Bob Woolmer FROM THE PAVILION The recent tug of war over Allan Donald mirrors, in a way, the club or country pull that Bafana Bafana players are experiencing. In all these matters, inevitably, it is the player who suffers. Naturally Donald wants to play for South Africa – as I am sure Mark Fish does. […]

The imprint of apartheid is clearly evident in staff composition at universities and technikons across South Africa Barry Streek The academic staff at South Africa’s 36 public universities and technikons are still overwhelmingly white and male dominated, particularly at the historically white institutions, according to the Council for Higher Education. The council has found 80% […]

SOUTH African star cricketer Barry Richards has been shorlisted to coach the Pakistan national cricket side, a senior Pakistan Cricket Board official said on Thursday. “We have decided to talk to either England’s former test player Geoffrey Boycott or South African Barry Richards in the next couple of days,” PCB manager operations Yawar Saeed said. […]

SINGER Yvonne Chaka Chaka was discharged from the Milpark hospital in Johannesburg, after suffering minor injuries in a car accident. She is still suffering from shock after a head-on collision, which blocked off the busy Empire Road over half an hour.

THE Transvaal Agricultural Union has warned that many of the estimated 4000 farm schools in South Africa may be forced to close down because of government negligence. TAU Mpumalanga spokesman, Theo Wassenaar, said many farm schools lack infrastructure like electricity and sewage systems and the department also fails to maintain them. “Farmers and government differ […]

A WHITE farmer who had a black labourer stripped naked and painted for allegedly trespassing on his land was on Tuesday fined R3200 by the Heidelberg Magistrate’s Court, east of Johannesburg. Frederick de Beer, a farmer from Mpumalanga province, was also given an 18-month jail sentence, suspended for four years, after being found guilty of […]