FRIDAY, 8.30AM FORMER justice minister Adriaan Vlok has admitted to ordering the placing of “small explosive devices” outside two cinemas showing anti-apartheid movies, and to making false bomb threats to cinemas planning to show the Biko film Cry Freedom. Vlok is believed to be referring to a series of anti-censorship film festivals run by the […]
meet Moshoeshoe Stephen Gray TWO hundred years ago a pair of lowly lads was born in Scotland, that great producer of emigrants. One was the son of a humble joiner in the northernmost Highlands, the other of a mere shepherd in the Border area. Both were self-educated, ambitious enough to make something of themselves in […]
A new attitude to traditional muti could help save endangered species, writes Eddie Koch THE Convention on Trade in Endangered Species (Cites) gathering in Harare was dominated this week by fierce debate over the international ban on trade in ivory. But in a largely unheralded move, hundreds of Western conservationists adopted a new approach to […]
AT the heart of the debate around Cape Town’s Olympic bid lies a question of ownership. Faced by accusations of nepotism and racism this week, bid company chief executive Chris Ball responded that the spirit of volunteerism was integral to the Olympic movement. When pressed for details as to the costs of the bid process, […]
Yoweri Museveni has made great strides in dismantling the vestiges of colonial rule in Uganda, but Mahmood Mamdani questions the long-term stability of outlawing political opposition WHEN Yoweri Katuga Museveni came to power in 1986 at the head of the National Resistance Army (NRA), he pledged ”Fundamental Change” to the people of Uganda. Ten years […]
Peta Thornycroft WAR matriel from South Africa is being supplied to Angola’s Unita movement, according to reports by the Institute for Security Studies. One of the institute’s senior researchers, Jakkie Potgieter, says he has seen military supplies being off- loaded and stored in northern Mozambique for shipment to Unita forces along Angola’s border with the […]
Seamus Deane ANGELA’S ASHES by Frank McCourt (Flamingo, R66,95) FRANK McCOURT’S memoir has been published to loud acclaim, especially in the United States, where it won a 1997 Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award. It recounts the story of his family, starting in New York and thence transferring to Ireland, specifically to Limerick, during […]
Rootedness leads to parochialism and xenophobia. Only by abolishing these fake map lines can one gain a sense of genuine belonging, argues Ronald Suresh Roberts ‘WHY are you in this country?” This question is a recurring oar-splash in every foreigner’s South African voyage. ”Aren’t you homesick?” ask the sympathetic. ”Bugger off back to wherever,” say […]
IFP-ANC TALKS The second round of peace talks between the ANC and IFP began in Ulundi, KwaZulu-Natal on Thursday. The talks are a continuation of the June 8 talks, when the ANC presented its proposals to the IFP, offering a senior national government post to IFP leader Mangosuthu Buthelezi and a special amnesty package for […]
THURSDAY, 12.30PM THE Cabinet on Wednesday finally approved the policy proposals in the Defence review, paving the way for the SA Navy acquire its long-awaited new submarines and corvette warships. The cabinet’s approval of policy proposals on defence posture, functions, force design, human resources and part-time forces gives the navy the green light to acquire […]