dark’ Thokozani Mtshali Born in South Africa, Ayanda Moatshe (19) has lived all her life in the country. She holds a valid identity document, speaks four African languages and English, studies engineering at Wits Technikon, and plays on the national softball team. Her mother works at the Johannesburg Stock Exchange. But Moatshe has been picked […]
Magnus Heystek appears to have created an eyebrow-raising conflict of interest in a property deal involving a family trust of which he is a trustee. Mungo Soggot and Belinda Beresford report High-profile financial adviser Magnus Heystek engineered a questionable R1,5-million property deal in which a family trust he oversees bought into land used for his […]
NIGERIA’s military government ordered the “immediate release” on Thursday of 33 officers and civilians convicted of plotting coups against the previous regime, including 18 jailed with president-elect Olusegun Obasanjo. The country’s top military body, the Provisional Ruling Council, met in to the early hours of Thursday to agree to the pardon and release of those […]
Keith Henderson Prodigy will soon be in South Africa. Possibly one of the world’s most successful electronic/rock cross-over outfits, they will be taking to the stage and blasting their unique sound out in an audio and visual performance many South Africans have been itching to see for some time. Their manic, beat-invested brand of electronica […]
Ferial Haffajee:TAKING STOCK Walking up the stairs to the infamous 10th floor of the Johannesburg Central police station, one realises it will take much more than a change of name to cleanse the tortured space that was John Vorster Square. The monolithic building hulks over the southern verges of the city, its police-blue exterior an […]
John Matshikiza:WITH THE LID OFF I’m summoned to appear in the magistrate’s court at 8.30am. It’s a simple matter. My car was broken into, the culprits were caught a few minutes later with my property still hot in their hands, and the case has finally come before a magistrate. I am obliged to testify. The […]
After initially neglecting the Internet, South Africa’s traditional media houses are now investing heavily in the next wave of media: online newspapers. Most major newspaper groups for the past two years have maintained a virtual presence on the World Wide Web, usually postings of their print stories and searchable archives of previous editions. But late […]
The launch on Sunday of a new title is the first clear shot in a newspaper war likely to radically change the face of the South African media. The Sunday World, aimed at a wealthy, top-end black readership, hits the streets this weekend, drawing counter-attacks from its competition, the Sunday Times and City Press. Eight […]
Peter Vale: A SECOND LOOK The brave testimony of Dr Bridget O’Laughlin before the Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s amnesty committee provides a moment to pause and take a second look at the influential intellectual work of her friend and colleague, Ruth First, who was assassinated by an apartheid letter bomb in August, 1982. It also […]
Adam Haupt It’s Sunday afternoon at Making Music Productions and I’m hanging out with Cape hip- hop crew Black Noise and some Swedish hip-hop heads, who are participated in the recent Heal the Hood anti-racism, anti-crime campaign in the Western Cape. It’s been a long and hard two weeks for the Swedes and things are […]