There is a growing gulf between what is important to those at the top of the police force and those at the bottom, reports Tangeni Amupadhi after two weeks at a police station CONSTABLE Mbekeni Mthetwa died for a car. Minutes before his shift was to end on the evening of May 26, the 34-year-old […]

It appears that Eugene Terre’Blanche has learnt little from his sentencing but he still enjoys antagonising the press. Angella Johnson reports I HAD been told that Eugene Terre’Blanche would not speak to a black journalist. Maybe the prospect of spending six years in a multi-racial prison had softened the Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging leader, for not only […]

FRIDAY, 3.00PM THE Truth and Reconciliation says it cannot accede to National Party demands that its chairman archbishop Desmond Tutu apologise for certain comments and that deputy chairman Alex Boraine resign, and has called on the NP to iron out its difficulties with the commission through negotiation. After discussing a Nat threat to take the […]

Glynis O’Hara GOVERNMENT regulation in the music industry can reach a point where it interferes with the market, but artists must be nurtured before people start throwing “international standards” at them. So says Sue Gillard, general manager of Ausmusic, in South Africa to address a series of seminars organised by the Music Industry Development Initiative […]

More active policy and less macro-economic theology is the only way to get South Africa on to agrowth path, argues the SACP’s Jeremy Cronin A friend in the finance ministry of a West African state once described a visit from the International Monetary Fund (IMF). Meeting with the ministry, the IMF official hauled out his […]

Danielle James WINNING an endurance event is an achievement in anyone’s book, but getting to the top and staying there, year after year against all odds and changing circumstances, takes one from the realm of the possible to the impossible. Equestrian star Graham Winn is a man who operates in the realm of the impossible. […]

FRIDAY, 10.30AM THE Reserve Bank, in its drive to boost reserves ahead of its July 1 lifting of exchange controls, has acquired yet another foreign credline, this time a $1,5-billion revolving credit facility with a group of international banks. “The Reserve Bank is confident that, taking account of the current level of the official foreign […]

Wheeling and dealing in government money has left some officials dazed, confused … and in trouble A year ago, Terror Lekota fired a man. The action led to his own `redeployment’. Now a report shows Lekota may have been right, writes Rehana Rossouw THE senior African National Congress official who helped oust former Free State […]

Benjamin Pogrund THE GOOD NAZI: THE LIFE AND LIES OF ALBERT SPEER by Dan van der Vat (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, R190) THE title tells the story. There is none of the toing-and-froing, did he know, didn’t he know about the fate of the Jews under Nazism, as portrayed by Gitta Sereny in her monumental Albert […]

THURSDAY, 3.30PM THE Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species summit in Harare on Thursday approved a compromise proposal on the lifting of the worldwide ban on the ivory trade to allow Botswana, Namibia and Zimbabwe to sell their ivory stockpiles to Japan under tightly controlled conditions. After an earlier vote on the proposal was […]