FW DE KLERK has obviously decided his golf game is more important than his place in history. How else does one explain the desertion of the political wisdom that was so manifest on February 2 1990, when he seemed to have the world at his feet? Surely this petty politician railing against the Truth and […]
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Anthony Egan SOUTH AFRICA’S RADICAL TRADITION: A DOCUMENTARY HISTORY. VOLUME ONE:1907-1950; VOLUME TWO: 1943-1964 edited by Allison Drew ( Buchu/Mayibuye /UCT Press, R79,99) TWENTIETH-CENTURY South African liberation movements owe a considerable debt to the radical left. The left has played a giant part in supporting – at times leading -the struggle for a non-racial democracy. […]
salary raises Justin Arenstein JUDGE Willem Heath, head of South Africa’s most powerful investigation unit, slammed former Transkei military leader Bantu Holomisa this week for questioning the motives of his probe into possible irregular salary increases just before the 1994 elections. Holomisa said two weeks ago that the unit was conducting a malicious and unsubstantiated […]
FRIDAY, 4.30PM JUDGE Robert Nugent, presiding over the “Shell House” inquest into the deaths of 19 Inkatha Freedom Party protesters during an anti-election march in central Johannesburg in March 1994, on Friday refused to subpoena the Truth and Reconciliation Commission to divulge details of an amnesty application by African National Congress security guard Neo Potsane. […]
Grant funding will help to safeguard the flora of Table Mountain while also benefiting the community, writes Aspasia Karras THE Cape Floral Kingdom project, which aims to establish a single national park of 30 000ha on the Cape Peninsula and Table Mountain, is a prime example of the new approach the World Bank is taking […]
hotel Chris McGreal in Kinshasa BREAKFASTS will never be the same at Kinshasa’s Intercontinental hotel. First the rebels’ arrival heralded the end of the almond croissants. Then came the business with the grenade. Just about the only person not disturbed by the little metal ball clattering on to the tiled floor and wandering its way […]
Toil and trouble in the cauldron of the University of the North. Ann Eveleth reports on the issues UNIVERSITY of the North students returned to classes last week after a three-week boycott over an issue directly affecting about 300 of the 14 500 students. But a tangled web of conflicting views over transformation remains – […]
Since his heroic role in the World Cup triumph Chester Williams has been plagued by injury, but he is determined to come back RUGBY: Mick Cleary CHESTER WILLIAMS arrived with a smile on his face. It’s a well-rehearsed facade, the image which greeted thousands of visitors to the 1995 World Cup in South Africa. Chester […]
Mira Nair, director of the controversial Kama Sutra, has moved to Cape Town. She spoke with DAVID BERESFORD THE story is told of how one of South Africa’s most powerful black women was involved in a minor traffic accident with a white motorist recently. Mamphela Ramphele, vice-chancellor of the University of Cape Town, former director […]