A post template

No image available
/ 2 May 1997

Nightmare of Mugabe’s Matabele atrocities

The first details of a shock report of Zimbabwe’s government troops’ atrocities in camp Bhalagwe and elsewhere has emerged despite Mugabe’s curtain of silence, writes David Beresford One of the untold horrors of Africa – the atrocities perpetrated by Robert Mugabe’s troops in the southern province of Matabeleland after independence -can finally be told. The […]

No image available
/ 2 May 1997

It was a ‘victory for voodoo’

SOCCER:Julian Drew HAVING travelled with Bafana Bafana to Pointe Noire to experience the inexplicable outbreak of “Congo Fever” which saw the locals’ confidant 2-0 predictions transformed eerily into reality, it was quite clear that there were “darker” forces at play. A simple stroll around the murkier corners of the local market and a once-over of […]

No image available
/ 2 May 1997

The trouble with a caddie …

In an extract from his new book, Golf Dreams, acclaimed American novelist John Updike celebrates the grace and frustrations of an addictive game GOLF:John Updike A CAMPAIGN is afoot to bring back the caddie to American golf courses. In Golf Digest and elsewhere you can read of the many benefits: it is better for the […]

No image available
/ 2 May 1997

Purge threat in Pietersburg

The Semenya commission recommends senior Northern Province officials should go. Marion Edmunds reports THE initial report by the Semenya commission into financial irregularities in the Northern Province recommends a purge of senior officials – many of them close associates of Premier Ngoako Ramathlodi. Senior African National Congress members in the province say the report – […]

No image available
/ 2 May 1997

The fount of annihilation

Tim Radford in London ASTRONOMERS have discovered a huge fountain of antimatter at the heart of the galaxy. The jet – from a mystery source – extends for 3 000 light years above the Milky Way. Antimatter is a particle with the same characteristics as normal matter, except that it has an opposite electrical charge. […]

No image available
/ 2 May 1997

War zone or storm in a teacup?

Opinions differ strongly about the effects of South Africa’s crime wave on foreign investment. Miepje Commandeur and Helma van de Vondevoort report LOCAL representatives of South Africa’s leading trade partners regularly suffer from crime, a snap survey by the Mail & Guardian shows. Staff members of foreign embassies and chambers of commerce are often at […]

No image available
/ 2 May 1997

Bureaucrats dither as HIV invades

Anti-Aids activists claim the Health Department has good policies – on paper – but is falling down on implementation.Jim Day reports ONLY about half of R65-million budgeted for HIV education, prevention and care has yet been used -even while the virus continues to spread alarmingly. The money, from the Reconstruction and Development Programme (RDP), is […]

No image available
/ 2 May 1997

From petty criminals to radio recruits

Voluntary organisation Otherwise has taken the homeless off the streets and put them on the air in an innovative new project, reports Glynis O’ Hara BABALWA NANI (21) has spent the past five years on the streets of Cape Town doing anything and everything to survive. Now she is involved in an autobiographical radio documentary. […]

No image available
/ 2 May 1997

US investment grows at 25% pa

FRIDAY 11.00AM INVESTMENT in SA by United States companies is growing at 25% a year despite the country’s widely publicised crime problem, a US chamber of commerce official said yesterday. Bill Mallory, the chamber’s immediate past president, said: “A crime survey by the US business community, which is duye to be released soon, shows that […]