Briton Angella Johnson The attorney general’s office in Pretoria is seeking the extradition from the United Kingdom of a Briton charged with murdering two black men at a neo-Nazi training camp near Heidelberg. Tyrone Chadwick, who jumped bail last year and is believed to be living in the UK, was expected to stand trial later […]
GWEN ANSELL pays tribute to the man who introduced the sounds of West Africa to the world THE king of highlife is dead. Emmanuel Tetch (ET) Mensah, trumpeter, saxophonist, bandleader, composer (and, in periods of musical layoff, a practising pharmacist), has died in his birthplace of Accra, Ghana, at the age of 77. Highlife music […]
ANC leaders are not backing Free State premier Patrick `Terror’ Lekota in a fight against corruption, reports Rehana Rossouw Free State premier Patrick “Terror” Lekota has exposed abuse of almost R6-million of public money. A Mail & Guardian investigation has found that some of the money was allegedly spent by senior members of the provincial […]
Nthato Motlana’s high-profile team that is supposed to be raising R300-million for higher education has been hit by criticism, reports Philippa Garson THE high-powered team of academics and business executives set up by the education department last year to raise money for needy students has not yet raised a cent. Some members of the Eminent […]
Dale Carnegie would have been proud of FW de Klerk’s performance at the National Party’s weekend congress, writes Gaye Davis NATIONAL Party leader FW de Klerk is credited with being something of a magician among politicians, capable of producing a rabbit from a hat. The analogy was particularly apt at the opening of his party’s […]
Cape Town gang buster leader Muhammed Ali “Phantom” Parker is not the caped crusader his nickname suggests, but a man who has tasted death and is prepared to die for the cause he believes in, friends and relatives said this week. Parker was shot in the chest at the siege of gang leader Rashaad Staggie’s […]
The misguided choice of coal-based technology is limiting a potentially booming sector, reports Lynda Loxton Plastics and chemicals giant Polifin upset many manufacturers when it managed to persuade the Board on Tariffs and Trade to slap anti-dumping duties on polymer (plastic raw materials) imports. But while many ranted and raved about “high-handed measures to reduce […]
Credit Lyonnais may become the latest in a series of botched sell-offs, reports Alex Duval Smith from Paris If rumours are confirmed that the French government is preparing a rush privatisation of the Credit Lyonnais (CL) bank, it will be the latest in a long line of sell-offs motivated more by desperation than design. The […]
Edwina Spicer Blacks don’t buy books. At least, that is the apparent sentiment of many Zimbabwean bookshops. And yet the Zimbabwe International Book Fair (ZIBF) attracted thousands of mostly black visitors, including hordes of children who packed the reading tents. Harare’s big booksellers display a daunting range of coffee-table books, hard-covered and full-colour, on topics […]
Philippa Garson THE future of Ravan Press, renowned for its fierce independence during apartheid, is under threat. Founded by Beyers Naude nearly 25 years ago, Ravan will be absorbed by its holding company Hodder and Stoughton Educational Southern Africa, unless its staff can find a buyer before the end of the month. Ravan was bought […]