An investigation has been launched into the arrests of six ANC members last month. Marianne Merten reports National Director of Public Prosecutions Bulelani Ngcuka has appointed former Transvaal attorney general Jan d’Oliveira and police Deputy National Commissioner Solly Lavisa to probe last month’s brief detention of six leading Western Cape African National Congress members. The […]
Karlin Lillington Netwatch So what do you regret? Air yours or read what others are sorry they did or didn’t do at www. regretsonly.com. The site is part of a writer’s project to publish a book of regrets, and he promises not to reveal yours until the book comes out. He features some historical names […]
As two locally produced films are released simultaneously this week, Andrew Worsdale examines the state of the troubled South African film industry The South African film industry is forever on the verge of finding itself as local film-makers spend more and more time together in think-tanks and pressurising already stressed-out government departments. A welcome break […]
Loose cannon Robert Kirby Sometimes apparently atrociously bad ideas deserve a second look. It happens all the time in diet-advice. One minute they tell you eating eggs is bad for your blood vessels, the next they’re saying that if you don’t eat at least two eggs at every meal your blood vessels will close up […]
It was the bottom of the glass rather than the rich upper class that stirred the emotions at the Inanda Club, writes Katy Bauer Last Sunday, a convoy of smart cars made its way to the Inanda Club for the second international polo match between South Africa and Australia. We rattled into the grounds in […]
Gavin Evans English Premiership There was a time – most of this century in fact – when football obsession seemed to be restricted to men in cloth caps and mufflers. Unlike rugby – “played by hooligans, watched by gentlemen” – the “beautiful game” was not a fit passion for polite society, especially in the 1980s […]
Marianne Merten and Evidence wa ka Ngobeni Senior police officers are involved in gun- running between Gauteng and the Western Cape as well as vehicle theft syndicates which supply illegal chop shops, according to former People against Gangsterism and Drugs (Pagad) Gauteng co-ordinator Ayob Mungalee. The self-confessed National Intelligence Agency (NIA) informer is awaiting trial […]
The murder of DayleOrsmond has provided an extremely vivid illustration of poor police work in South Africa, writes Mungo Soggot It is almost a year since Dayle Orsmond, a computer programmer, was beaten and strangled to death in her Johannesburg flat. The 36-year-old woman was found on the floor by her bed, trussed with stockings […]
Mercedes Sayagues During this week’s Heroes’ Day and Defence Forces’ National Day public holidays, Zimbabweans took a break from their harsh daily realities, but the politics did not stop. As they boarded buses to go home, the talk was about the newest challenge to the ruling party, Zanu-PF. Last weekend, trade union leader Morgan Tsvangirai’s […]
At the celebrations marking the changing of the Reserve Bank guard last weekend, there was a fine crop of speeches as the outgoing governor of the Reserve Bank, Chris Stals, handed over to Tito Mboweni. Stals gave a self-effacing, wry speech, listing what he believed were the 12 commandments of central banking, and expressing confidence […]