John Arlidge and Jamie Doward The Internet, once dubbed the Wild West of the 21st century, is getting its first taste of the law: an electronic sheriff is surfing cyberspace. Big firms, which are losing up to 3-million each a year as workers surf the Web looking for new jobs and downloading pornography, are set […]
Marianne Merten Voting is still a tale of two cities on the Cape Peninsula where just a busy highway makes all the difference. In the coloured area of Bonteheuwel on the Cape Flats, residents spent election day at home, visiting friends and making the best of an extra public holiday in the little gardens where […]
Andrew Muchineripi Soccer They say there is no rest for the wicked, and it looks like we can add Bafana Bafana to the list, despite the fact that I have no knowledge of any misbehaviour by the national soccer squad. A tough African Nations Cup battle with Mauritius has just passed and there will be […]
Howard Barrell Perhaps, more than anything else, force of personality and raw political will explain how Tony Leon grabbed the title of official leader of the opposition. For if any one individual and his image dominated the election campaign – more so perhaps than even Thabo Mbeki’s or Nelson Mandela’s – it was that of […]
Peter Dickson A single rusted road sign at Nqadu near Willowvale indicates that these are the 20th-century lands of King Xolilizwe Sigcawu, paramount chief of all the Xhosa. But his majesty is not here on election day, preferring to escape to his farm at Kentani and vote there. By midday, at the voting station just […]
cell Evidence wa ka Ngobeni The police’s Independent Complaints Directorate (ICD) is probing the mysterious death of a man who shot himself in a police cell this week after being arrested for a minor crime. Police claim that Francois Hulscher (30), from Cape Town, pumped a bullet from a 9mm pistol into his head just […]
Aaron Nicodemus Thembi Nkosi is 20 years old, and manager of a print and coffee shop with dreams of owning his own printing business. He knows the nuts and bolts of how to run a business – balancing its books, ordering stock, keeping customers happy. He got the job by writing a business plan for […]
supply lines Unita’s smuggling Chris Gordon The United Nations, having faced up to the failure of its peacekeeping operation in Angola, has launched a new bid to shorten the war by targeting the sanctions-busting arms, oil and diamond trade that is keeping Unita in business. After 16 intensive days in Southern Africa, Robert Fowler, Canadian […]
With South Africa’s second democratic elections concluded, it is clear that the country has reached the end of an era.
irregularities Ivor Powell Election observers and monitors have reported more than 30 electoral irregularities in KwaZulu-Natal, ranging from likely political murder to multiple voting in some areas. The incidents occurred despite the presence of intimidating contingents of security forces personnel to guarantee stability at nearly every voting station in the province. While the disruptions recorded […]