Shaun de Waal ALIENS IN THE HOUSEHOLD OF GOD: HOMOSEXUALITY AND CHRISTIAN FAITH IN SOUTH AFRICA edited by Paul Germond and Steve de Gruchy (David Philip, R74,95) CHRISTIANITY has only recently begun to treat homosexuality as something other than a dire sin requiring, at worst, immolation, at best, conversion. The South African synod of Anglican […]
THE decision by the Organisation of African Unity (OAU) to clear the way for a Nigerian military invasion of Sierra Leone is like seconding the Mafia to raid dope smokers at a high school. Nigeria’s corrupt and brutal military regime has had an enormous destabilising role in West Africa. Ordinary Liberians and Sierra Leoneans blame […]
JAZZ ON CD: Gwen Ansell ONLY 27 years old, the ECM label has already acquired adjectival status. Call someone’s playing “a bit ECM-ish” and you’ve summed up that amalgam of north European romanticism, spacey fusion and sizzling free energy which until a decade ago typified the label’s output. In 1984, ECM – the acronym stands […]
The national wine co-op has been implicated in trying to sell fake champagne to Europe and the US, report David Beresford and Mungo Soggot THE national co-operative which controls South Africa’s wine industry, KWV, has been implicated in a major swindle involving the attempted sale of fake champagne to Europe and the United States. Documents […]
A victory against Zambia on Sunday will go a long way towards sending Bafana Bafana to t he World Cup in France, but nothing is certain in the unpredictable Group Three SOCCER : Andrew Muchineripi THE moment of truth for World Cup hopefuls South Africa and Zambia arrives on Sunday when they clash at FNB […]
Peace moves are being likened to the secret negotiations between the NP and ANC, write Eddie Koch and Enoch Mthembu SLOWLY, agonisingly, Kwa-Zulu-Natal may be heading for peace. The most recent sign that centripetal forces are beginning to dominate the politics of South Africa’s most turbulent region was a report this week that Mangosuthu Buthelezi […]
ELISA PACHO has seven children, one of whom is adopted. Her husband David Pacho was a crew leader at Vaal Reefs. According to the NUM records, his older wife Irene Pacho has three children. Elisa Pacho lives in Maxixi, about three hours’ drive north of Maputo. Not all the children attend school; a financial squeeze […]
dad Stuart Hess WHEN Michael Wagenstroom senior was buried this week, just a handful of family and friends went to his funeral. The events leading up to his death, however, have shocked the Manenberg community on the Cape Flats. The tale of Wagenstroom’s final days has also prompted an investigation by the police’s Independent Complaints […]
FRIDAY, 11.00AM: THE United Cricket Board of SA announced a 15% pay rise on Thursday for the South African cricket side to play the 1997/1998 season. Grade A players, including Hansie Cronje, Gary Kirsten, Brian McMillan, Daryll Cullinan, Dave Richardson, Allan Donald and Shaun Pollock, will get R15 200 per month, while players in Grades […]
FRIDAY, 4.30PM AMID opposition cries of fraud, early results show that pro-government parties won Algeria’s first parliamentary elections since the start of an Islamic insurgency after the last election’s results were annulled five years ago. President Liamine Zeroual’s National Democratic Rally won 155 of the National Assembly’s 380 seats, while the pro-government National Liberation Front […]