SOUTH African boxer Soon Botes is angry after being notified from Germany that WBU super middleweight champion Norbert Noriega has refused to meet him in a return bout. Botes lost a disputed decision against the German with the vacant WBU title at stake in Dortmund last year, and was assured by WBU president Jon Robinson […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Rome | Friday 12.30pm. THE Sierra Leone capital was calm on Thursday night, according to the Catholic Misna news agency, which reported a halt in fighting in Freetown’s eastern Kissy district. “The night seems to be calm,” a Sierra Leonean priest in the city told the Rome-based agency late last night. “On the […]

THE United Nations has evacuated its observers from the north-western Angolan province of Zaire, the national news agency Angop reported on Wednesday. It said UN peacekeepers deployed in the provincial capital, Mbanza-Congo, to protect equipment for the UN Mission in Angola were evacuated to Luanda, on Tuesday following an escalation in fighting in the area. […]

David Beresford highlights aspects of FW de Klerk’s soon to be released autobiography, in which the former state president describes his stormy relationship with the `vicious’ Nelson Mandela Former state president FW de Klerk has prepared a broadside against President Nelson Mandela in their long-running feud over their respective places in history, with his long-awaited […]

listed on website for deadbeats South Africa’s leading black `wine ambassador’ is listed on an American `Deadbeat Hall of Shame’ Internet site for not paying child support. Cliff Matheson and Justin Arenstein report He is world renowned as South Africa’s leading black “wine ambassador”, but Jabulani Ntshangase has a shady secret. He is featured in […]

Chiara Carter A backward glance through the two-and- a-half years since the anti-drug group People against Gangsterism and Drugs (Pagad) sprung to national prominence is a depressing litany of empty promises and unsuccessful endeavours by the authorities. The period saw ongoing bloodshed, few arrests, many collapsed cases and only a handful of convictions. 1996: Following […]

before profit >From PAGE 39 His offices were recently robbed, yet the only item stolen was his Iscor file containing all his correspondence with the company. Winterbach also recently discovered sand in the sump of his aeroplane. “It’s not fair to point the finger of suspicion at anyone,” he says, “but this has never happened […]

Matthew Krouse Down the tube Anyone with a television set, and an interest in the arts, knows that on Sunday night it’s time to commune with high culture. Looking back at the progression of arts programmes over the last decade, from Collage to Arts Unlimited, to Artworks, aRt and Flux, one recalls mostly long-winded, dour […]

Andrew Worsdale Movie of the week `God, yet another pooftah movie,” groaned a fellow critic at the preview of Turkish Bath last week. Well, yeah, gay and lesbian cinema is booming – even the studios are making films with homosexual themes. Universal Pictures made To Wong Foo, an inferior drag queen movie with Wesley Snipes […]