MONDAY, 11.00AM: THE Gauteng Lions continued their losing run with a crushing 47-9 hammering at the hands of Waikato on Saturday, all the while keeping up the haemorrhage of players to injury as stand-in skipper Ian Macdonald and centre Japie Mulder fell by the wayside. The Lions are now left with a rather threadbare side […]
MONDAY, 3.30PM: WESTERN Cape police today expressed the fear that the ongoing war between Cape Flats gangsters and People Against Gangesterism and Drugs vigilantes could lead to a majow bloodbath. Since Pagad vigilantes murdered druglord Rashaad Staggie in a gruesome lynching last August, a campaign of tit-for-tat attacks has developed between vigilantes and alleged gangsters. […]
MONDAY, 5.30PM: THE Moldenhauer commission of inquiry into irregularly issued drivers’ licences in Mpumalanga today heard that traffic officers accused of issuing as many as 300 fraudulent drivers’ licences a day at the Kabokweni testing station burnt down the centre in 1995 to destroy documentary evidence of their activities. Mpumalanga chief traffic inspector Francois Coombs […]
MONDAY, 11.00AM AIR ZIMBABWE finally has a new chief executive from today, a year after the previous CE was fired by Robert Mugabe. Irish airline expert Brendon Donohoe, who has worked previously in Africa, takes over for two years following an agreement reached between the troubled national airline and Air Consult International (ACI) of Dublin, […]
THE ROAD AHEAD by Bill Gates (Penguin Audiobooks, R79,95, abridged) Bill Gates’s manifesto on how computers will shape the future is arresting and thought-provoking. He recalls his first childhood encounter with a computer, and forsees computers and television merging. Gates believes the coming technological revolution will change the way we think, learn, shop and work. […]
What does and what does not constitute euthanasia? It is a question of intent which will be determined by law,writes Selma Browde THE discussion paper recently released by the Law Commission for public comment is an excellent document. Unfortunately the document is entitled Euthanasia and the Artificial Preservation of Life, whereas the draft Bill, which […]
Satirist Pieter-Dirk Uys in The 15-Minute Interview. By Charl Blignaut CB: We’re not late are we? PDU: Nee skat. Haai, this place [Le Samovar in Hyde Park, Johannesburg] is wonderful. It reminds me of New York. Have you been to the Russian Tea House in New York? CB: No. When do you go to New […]
The Zairean rebel leader has come from 20 years of exile obscurity with little clarity about his policies, reports Rehana Rossouw AS South Africa frantically sweated to put the final touches to Zairean peace talks this week, serious doubts began to emerge about the character of the man who holds all the cards – Laurent […]
SA SAILING:Jonathan Spencer Jones. ‘THE boat, all 42 tons of it, was picked up by a wave and literally thrown over the next wave to land flat, down on her side. But she picked up and off we went again.” And that, in Hurricane Fergus in the Pacific, just three days from Wellington, New Zealand, […]
FRIDAY, 3.30PM: AN episode of the British investigative TV programme The Cook Report, due to be shown on May 6, lifts the lid on SA hunting operations which charge large sums to set up kills for foreign hunters involving drugged or confined lions. The programme makes several allegations, including that: SA game farmers are breeding […]