Jonathan Ancer talks to some of the `seditious’ students who were blamed for the 1976 Soweto riots Twenty-three years after the June 16 Soweto uprising, the “seditious” students convicted of inciting the rebellion are influential members of the new South Africa they helped to create. There’s an MP, a Department of Foreign Affairs official, a […]
New evidence shows IFP leader Mangosuthu Buthelezi approved paramilitary activities aimed at undermining the 1994 election. Ivor Powell reports.
Chris McGreal Muriel Olaiya lives more comfortably than most Nigerians. For a start, her husband has a job. It pays for the extras that make the difference between living and simply surviving in Lagos. The Olaiyas have a generator for use during the frequent power cuts, and a water tank because not a drop has […]
Loose cannon Robert Kirby And so, he slowly ponces off into the sunset, his great mane of carefully sculptured hair bouncing to his wearied gait, his spicy ManTang bodyspray wafting around him, his cute little beard still flippantly jutting in defeat. These last few days I have been sorely tempted to write a column entitled […]
Cameron Duodu Letter from the North I am extremely proud to inform you that the only reason I was able to watch President Thabo Mbeki’s inaugural speech live was because your brothers and sisters in the north have begun to pull up their socks. I was watching the ceremony on BBC World. Just as Mbeki […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Friday 2.20pm. ABOUT 100 public servants on Friday morning surprised President Thabo Mbeki with a party and a cake for his 57th birthday. Among those attending the function at the Union Buildings in Pretoria were Foreign Affairs Minister Nkosazana Zuma, her deputy Aziz Pahad, Minister in the Presidency Essop Pahad, and […]
STEVEN NHLANE, DAN LANGEVELDT, Blantyre | Friday 10.30pm BAKILI MULUZI has been re-elected president of Malawi, an election official said on Friday. Assani Fahad confirmed a state radio report that Muluzi had beaten his main challenger, Gwanda Chakuamba, in polls held in this impoverished southern African state Tuesday. Opposition parties have sworn to contest the […]
FORMER Mpumalanga environment MEC Luckson Mathebula appeared with two co-accused in Bushbuckridge’s Mhala Regional Court on Friday, following his arrest for allegedly masterminding the murder of his estranged wife. Mathebula appeared with his girlfriend and a 34-year-old man. Police say they will oppose any bail application by the accused. Mathebula’s wife Aletta Rose Mnisi was […]
Deon Potgieter in Copenhagen Boxing The South African National Boxing Commission has controversially snatched a world title fight away from former World Boxing Union welterweight world champion Gary “The Heat” Murray. The newly formed boxing bodyoriginally tried to hamstring Murray by saying a local fighter should win a national title before being eligible to contest […]
beauties Matthew Krouse It’s like the final chapters of Cinderella, when officials comb the poorest of the land trying to find a girl beautiful enough to pass for a princess. Even in the real life saga – the M-Net Face of Africa – Cinderella amasses an absolute fortune, probably making her an object of contempt […]