ISAAC MOFOKENG, the man who shot and wounded Johannesburg Zoo’s Max the gorilla while fleeing from police in July 1994, was sentenced to 40 years in jail in the Johannesburg Regional Court on Friday. Mofokeng, who was convicted on 10 counts including rape, robbery, housebreaking and malicious damage to property (for shooting the R2,5-million gorilla), […]
Are you a good citizen? Do you prefer Hansa to Castle? Market research reveals it all to the advertising industry, reports David le Page How do marketers and advertisers decide whether their bombardment of messages, subliminal or otherwise, is sinking into our collective consciousness with sufficient force to make their efforts worthwhile and cost-effective? Well, […]
In the hope of spoiling your meal or trip home, or of making still less pleasant your absorption of the evening news, here are two thoughts on war which some of us on the Mail & Guardian have recently been discussing. One is about war as Nato tries to wage it; the other is about […]
Dan Atkinson in London Warren Buffet – a chap who ought to know – once described the stock market as being merely a reference point, allowing investors to check whether anyone was offering to do anything foolish. Much the same could be said of the gold price which, most of the time, indicates whether, in […]
Eddie Butler Five Nations It remains the ironic charm of rugby. After months of the bitterest infighting possible without anyone resorting to blows – apparently it’s been apoplectically touch and go in several antechambers – a structure has been triumphantly unveiled that will give European rugby a sub- international springboard to international excellence: the English […]
Ann Eveleth The head of a KwaZulu-Natal police unit that allegedly failed to respond to warnings before the Christmas 1995 Shobashobane massacre has been promoted to lead police crime prevention efforts on the province’s South Coast ahead of the elections. Superintendent Jan Botha was head of the Umzimkulu region’s internal security unit (ISU) at the […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, United Nations | Friday 7.30pm. THE United States announced Thursday that it would soon hold its first official talks with Libya since breaking off diplomatic relations in 1981. State Department spokesman James Rubin stressed to reporters in Washington that the meeting at ambassador level would not be bilateral, but would also involve the […]
THE Truth Commission faces a legal battle over its selling the Final Report to publishers Jutas, despite the report’s own recommendation that it “be made available in the widest possible way”. Jutas are selling the report for R750, a price set by the commission itself. Steve Crawford runs the Truth Commission’s own website, and has […]
FORMER defence minister Magnus Malan was “doing fine” after his second heart bypass operation, Malan’s wife Margot said on Friday. Malan had the operation on Thursday morning after complaining of tiredness. An angiogram showed that one his arteries was clogged so specialists ordered corrective surgery. Malan said her husband had his first bypass 13 years […]
Fears are growing that Angola’s civil war could spill over its borders following reports that Zambia is aiding Unita. Ivor Powell reports New evidence has come to light implicating President Frederick Chiluba’s Zambian government in aiding Jonas Savimbi’s rebel Unita movement in neighbouring Angola. Indications have also surfaced of Ugandan troops seconded in support of […]