reaches his century Jan Raath Dr Hastings Kamuzu Banda, the worlds oldest surviving ex-tyrant, turns 100 this year, according to what reliable authority there is. There is no proof of his birth date, so he wont qualify for a century-o- gram from the Queen of England. Birth certificates were introduced in Malawi long after he […]
THIRD FORCE ON CAPE FLATS? SAFETY and Security Minister Sydney Mufamadi is to investigate claims that prisoners are being used as hitmen as part of “third force” operations on the violence-torn Cape Flats. The announcement was made after a meeting on Tuesday morning between Mufamadi, Justice Minister Dullah Omar and Deputy Minister for Intelligence Joe […]
New positions, old values? Ben Turok questions whether the new emerging black middle class will remain loyal to the liberation movement As the colonial era ended in Africa, the imperialist powers set about deliberately creating a neo-colonial comprador class through partnerships in business, by the co-option of political party leaders, by training civil servants and […]
WEDNESDAY, 6.30PM GOLD shares on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange held most of their gains on Wednesday, but even a last-minute run on indistrial shares failed to drag the index into positive territory. At the close the all gold index had gained 5%, or 49 points, to 1 074,4, but the industrial index had lost 23,7 […]
WEDNESDAY, 10.45AM: NATIONAL Olympic Commitee of South Africa received a massive sponsorship boost from cellular phone company Vodacom on Tuesday. The company handed over a R5 million cheque – the first major boost in the build up to the Sydney 2000 Olympic games. The cellular company is one of 12 main sponsors who will pay […]
WEDNESDAY, 11.30AM IN a historic deal, Johannesburg Consolidated Investments’s Western Areas gold mine on Monday signed a wage deal linking increases to productivity for the first time. The deal involves all mining unions and associations representing workers at the mine. In terms of the agreement, the mine’s south section will work an additional 78 shifts […]
WEDNESDAY, 10.45AM: ATHLETICS South Africa (ASA) secretary general Banele Sindani claims that he is not a racist and challenged top coach JP van der Merwe to make public a telephone conversation alleging that he called van der Merwe a “white trash and a racist”. “I’m calling him a liar and I don’t care wether that’s […]
Gustav Thiel There are at least five serial killers currently on the loose in South Africa, striking terror into communities and confirming the view that these monsters have become widespread throughout the country. Though a lack of data about past serial killings and a woefully inept computer system make it difficult to gauge the exact […]
warming Gustav Thiel South Africa is one of the worlds worst- prepared countries to face the challenge to reduce global greenhouse emissions, environmentalists warn. International environmental authorities meet in Japan in December to decide on the future regulation of greenhouse emissions. Decisions taken at the third United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change Conference of […]
Susanna Barron : London Fashion Week 1997 The fashion designer Lainey Keogh struck a blow for real women at London Fashion Week this week when she sent models of all shapes and ages down the runway at her Spring Summer 1998 show. The 1960s singer Marianne Faithfull, the curvy Sophie Dahl and the teenage model […]