Ann Eveleth Amid widespread perceptions of police inaction and corruption, police investigating other police are either unable or unwilling to take their colleagues accused of serious crimes off the beat. The return to work last month of three policemen facing murder charges for the Christmas 1995 Shobashobane massacre of 19 African National Congress supporters is […]
South African agents attempted to buy influence in the White House by offering to buy a jet for Bob Dole’s running mate, writes Eddie Koch JACK KEMP, currently running as the Republican candidate for vice-president in the United States elections, was deeply embarrassed in the late 1980s by revelations that South African military intelligence agents […]
A secret UN report has blamed Burundi’s army for assassinating President Melchior Ndadaye three years ago, reports Chris McGreal from Bujumbura A confidential United Nations report on the murder of Burundi’s first Hutu president — kept under wraps because of its potentially explosive impact on the conflict-ravaged country — accuses the army high command of […]
FINE ART: Hazel Friedman DON’T go looking for Lolita in Antoinette Murdoch’s debut solo show, Trane Trekkers. Unlike the nymphet in Vladimir Nabokov’s novel, Murdoch’s notions of the feminine are predicated not on precocious sexuality, but on transition; and her rites of passage are not trials by fire, but rather “fluid” journeys of purification. A […]
Ann Eveleth THE University of Zululand campus became a war zone this week as police and students clashed following the alleged rape of a female student in a campus residence last Saturday. Campus security fired teargas canisters on Tuesday to disperse students demanding the immediate suspension of Jabulani Msweli, the campus security guard charged with […]
Marion Edmunds and Stuart Hess THE government is going to battle to reduce the public service to meet its stated targets over the next three years, and to cut the enormous wage bill generated by its many employees. Senior sources in the Finance Department say it is accepted that targets are over-ambitious, and that the […]
Overseas acts provide all the excitement at next month’s Arts Alive festival, writes GWEN ANSELL BOLD and brassy Cuban ensemble Irakere will terrify the storks and electrify the dancers at Johannesburg’s Zoo Lake on September 8, as they kick off the popular music programme of this year’s Arts Alive Festival. Irakere, founded and led by […]
Madeleine Wackernagel In trying to bring the public service up to speed, the government has made a Faustian pact that could backfire, says one senior official in the Gauteng administration. “Only once we ran the statistics did we realise the scale of the problem. We need more money to keep the better people, which means […]
BRITAIN is not the only country wringing its hands over its performance at the Olympics. The Kenyan government plans to set up an independent commission to determine why its athletes won only one gold medal in Atlanta, the worst return since 1984. “We must go back to the drawing board and find the root cause […]
At one level it is possible to sympathise with Trevor Manuel with regard to his support for the All Blacks over the Springboks. If there is a game that conjures up the bad old days of apartheid it is rugby, a sport that tends to attract the passions of the sort of people (among others) […]