Five years on, New York State police have not found the killer of a South African university student, writes his brother, Phil Molefe THE world media descended on Cape Town like vultures last week to cover the amnesty hearing of slain American Fulbright scholar Amy Biehl. By contrast, nothing has ever been said in America […]
Fencing may have originated with the European aristocracy, but now it is flourishing in Mamelodi township FENCING: Julian Drew NOT so many years ago no black man without the speed of Hezekiel Sepeng would have ventured on to the Pretoria University campus inquiring whether he could join in with the sporting activities. A slower individual […]
In the week that police Captain Jeff Benzien has been demonstrating to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission how he used to physically throttle political suspects it might seem incongruous to be agonising over the shortcomings of the press under apartheid — the “crimes” being, on the face of it, somewhat disparate. But in fact the […]
FRIDAY, 10.30AM TRANSPORT Minister Mac Maharaj and his Public Enterprises counterpart Stella Sigcau on Thuesday announced a shortlist of three for the position of adviser on the restructuring of parastatal Airports Company. The shortlisted candidates are: SBC Warburg in partnership with accounting and consulting firm Gobodo; Standard Corporate and Merchant Bank with Morgan Stanley and […]
FRIDAY, 12.30PM FORMER British MP Emma Nicholson, who has been sheltering Katiza Cebekhulu, Winnie Madikizela-Mandela’s kidnapping co-accused who was abducted and carried to Zambia to prevent him testifying against Madikizela-Mandela, said this week in London that she is to travel to SA in September and offered an interview to the truth commission. Nicholson, who has […]
A new generation of central bankers, unfamiliar with the perils of high inflation, could prompt a new rush for the security of gold if the present obsession with paper money turns sour, warns Dan Atkinson in London THE scramble out of gold by the world’s central banks is not novel. We have sat through this […]
It is hard to reconcile the current upheaval on the African continent with the optimistic scenario of imminent revival put about by the Clinton administration and its South African variant, Deputy President Thabo Mbeki’s notion of an African renaissance. Angola is poised to go back to war. Hutu refugees are being slaughtered in Eastern Congo […]
The office of the auditor general has come under attack from the old guard as well as the new – for doing its job properly. Henri Kluever is standing his ground, reports Mungo Soggot THE auditor general, Henri Kluever, has not had much luck with the Ministry of Mineral and Energy Affairs. As he took […]
Maria McCloy YOU have to walk for only 10 minutes to get to a part of Grahamstown where it seems that the festival circus has not hit town – no flashing lights and excitement; no posters; no shows. For too long most of Grahamstown – the people who live in the townships – have not […]
Government ministries have to develop a comprehensive jobs plan in time for the October summit, reports Madeleine Wackernagel WHILE the furore over the Basic Conditions of Employment Bill continues unabated, the Minister of Labour Tito Mboweni will have his hands full in the next two months with an additional task: overseeing the development of a […]