MONDAY, 5.00PM SOUTH Africa’s democracy could collapse if the corruption of the police and the judicial system by organised crime syndicates is not stopped, Deputy President Thabo Mbeki warned on Monday. Speaking after the weekend meeting of the African National Congress’s national executive committee, Mbeki also said elements of the previous apartheid government’s security forces […]
MONDAY, 12.50AM: GAUTENG Lions captalised on the poor kicking of Mpumalanga Pumas to win their Currie Cup match 27-26 on Sunday. Mpumalanga squandered 12 extra first-half points through missed kicks at goals. Lions scrumhalf Johan Roux saved his team after by scoring two tries, converting two of them and converting two penalties for a personal […]
MONDAY, 5.00PM The conflict between the National Union of Mineworkers and the Mouthpiece Workers’ Union at Anglo American Platinum Mines near Rustenburg took a turn for the worse at the weekend, when a NUM shopsteward was murdered on Saturday, and another two NUM members were killed on Monday morning. At 2am on Saturday, a group […]
MONDAY, 5.00PM POLICE at the weekend arrested several alleged vigilante leaders in Northern Province in connection with the murder last week of four people in Sekhukhuneland, provincial safety and security MEC Seth Nthai said on Monday. The suspects were alleged leaders of a vigilante group known as Mapogo-a-Mathamaga, which had been accused of intimidating businessmen […]
David Beresford NAMIBIAN security forces, acting with the encouragement of President Sam Nujoma, have been accused of responsibility for the murders and disappearance of 1 768 Angolans on its northern borders. The claim has been made by a Namibian human rights group, the National Society for Human Rights (NSHR), which has been monitoring the alleged […]
FRIDAY, 1.30PM MURDERED People Against Gangsterism and Drugs national secretary Sharief Khan was on Thursday proclaimed the vigilante group’s second martyr at his funeral. Meanwhile, Ebrahim Satardien, the man arrested for Khan’s murder, appeared briefly in the Wynberg Magistrate’s Court on Friday for a bail application. The bail hearing was postponed to Monday and Satardien […]
ASMAL BACKS CEASEFIRE NATIONAL Conventional Arms Control Committee chair and Water Minister Kader Asmal has agreed with the Ceasefire Campaign that the SA armaments industry is overemphasising its contribution to the economy. Ceasefire representative Heike Spiegelberg said: “The income generated by arms exports last year was a mere R900-million, which still needs to be balanced […]
The falling gold price has shattered the fortunes of the South African mining industry, and the lives of hundreds of thousands who depend on mining jobs for their survival Angella Johnson THE round metal Lesotho pot was boiling nicely. Makabelo Ntaote added more cow dung and wood to the fire. She used to have a […]
The Cape Town 2004 Olympic Bid’s attempts to `Africanise’ its programme may be too little, too late, argues Julian Drew DEPUTY Foreign Affairs Minister Essop Pahad has shared a vital fact with Deputy President Thabo Mbeki, a fact that has so far eluded the bid company: the first known records of organised sport are from […]
Andrew Worsdale THE Australian Film Festival offers a different view to the commercial movies we have come to identify with Australia. It is on at the Rosebank Mall in Johannesburg from July 11 to 16 and at Cavendish Square in Cape Town from July 17. Of the 10 features in the festival, several are must-sees: […]