THE inquiry into allegations of match-fixing involving sacked Proteas cricket skipper Hansie Cronje will be headed by recently retired Cape judge president Edwin King. King was chosen to head the inquiry which is expected to complete its investigation within a month of its appointment.
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headache Mercedes Sayagues To many Zimbabweans, Morgan Tsvangirai is nothing short of a hero. The man stands up to a repressive government. He denounces corruption, defends workers’ interests and rights, and chairs the movement to reform the Constitution. For his troubles he is bashed on the head and needs stitches. The attack appears ordered by […]
You can make your dreams come true without resorting to crime, young people heard at a Freedom Day concert I’m in the Beemer with two-thirds of Shana when the new Boom Shaka tune, Change Your Mind, hits the airwaves from Durban Youth Radio. Nathi, one of the chiselled young singers of Durban’s hot new kwaito […]
One of South Africa’s most senior prison officials has been linked to a slew of political assassinations Paul Kirk KwaZulu-Natal’s newly appointed deputy director of correctional services, Russel Ngubo, is being investigated by the elite Scorpion unit and the police for at least 30 murders. Ngubo – who is also an African National Congress councillor […]
After four years in the wilderness, Damien Hirst, the hooligan genius of the art world, is back Gordon Burn Four years ago, for his last major show, at the Gagosian Gallery in New York, Damien Hirst made a piece featuring a giant beach ball bobbling on a column of air. The ball was multicoloured and […]