MEDICAL reports on the the three Americans awaiting trial in Zimbabwe for alleged espionage and terrorism show that they were not tortured during interrogation, state media reports. The state-controlled Herald newspaper quotes prisons medical officer Dr M Madhombiro and independent specialist surgeon AC Harid on Friday as agreeing in their reports that there was no […]
John Rawling : Boxing Evander Holyfield is demanding a staggering $25-million to be tempted back into the ring to face Lennox Lewis in a rematch this year. According to promoters, Lewis would be looking for a 50-50 split rather than the one-third he took on Saturday but the American television company which underwrites the deal […]
Nothing testifies to the mess our society is in as horrifically as the statistics on the abuse of children. Figures released this week by the police remind us of the shocking toll: 34 000 crimes against children reported between January and November last year, including 14 223 cases of rape, 3 451 of indecent assault […]
Lauren Shantall It’s a blustery Friday evening in Cape Town and I’m still waiting to catch one of the city’s signature Golden Arrow buses. When it finally careers round the corner of Bree Street, its rambunctious horde of singing, laughing passengers yell the driver to a stop. Our public transport system is in chaos – […]
THE corpses of dozens of Zimbabwean troops lay strewn on Thursday around the small village of Eshimba in central Democratic Republic of Congo’s Eastern Kasai province. Our correspondent saw bloated and disfigured corpses clothed in uniforms of the Zimbabwean army, which backs DRC President Laurent Kabila against rebels bent on ousting him. Most appeared to […]
ZIMBABWEAN rail workers paralysed the country’s railway network on Thursday in a strike over pay and in defiance of a government ban, company officials said. “They are on strike and there are no train movements,” a spokesman for the National Railways of Zimbabwe (NRZ) said. Union officials said a majority of NRZ’s nearly 10000 workers […]
Andy Capostagno : Rugby There will be those based in the north of the country who are experiencing a severe sense of dj vu about the Super 12 performance of the Gauteng Cats. You may recall that the Cats won their first match last year (39-32 vs Northern Bulls), then lost nine in a row […]
A lack of funding, or any of the other obstacles faced by cultural workers, hasn’t prevented Ithumeleng Wa-Lehulere taking theatre to the people, writes Lauren Shantall `Community theatre is not bad theatre,” asserts the compelling Ithumeleng Wa- Lehulere – one of the Western Cape’s foremost cultural workers and community theatre practitioners. An acclaimed actor, dancer […]
Loose cannon : Robert Kirby In a quick-draw response to an opinion expressed in this column some four weeks ago, Anita Kleinsmidt of the Centre for Applied Legal Studies – hereinafter referred to as “Cals” – dances intrepidly to the defence of the rights of nannies – hereinafter referred to as “childminders”. In the column […]
THE former Rwandan army major freed by a United Nations court on charges of murdering 10 Belgian peacekeepers during Rwanda’s 1994 genocide remained in custody on Friday as Belgium and Rwanda sought his re-arrest. The UN tribunal freed Bernard Ntuyahaga on Thursday when the prosecution dropped charges against him but Belgium wants him for trial […]