Justin Pearce Members of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission received unexpected salary increases of 25% during July, only a few months after they started work. The increase brought each commissioner’s pre-tax earnings to R28 750 per month — about R15 000 after tax. But not all the commissioners are happy about the increases, and are […]
William Bratton, who licked crime in the Big Apple, is due here next week. He describes the business principles behind his success. WHEN I was appointed police commissioner by New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani in 1994, the department was in disarray and the city’s high crime rate showed few signs of coming down. I […]
Justin Pearce The State Archives has allowed the Mail & Guardian access to cabinet memoranda, which were for years kept locked away in terms of the Archives Act. But a search through the papers revealed nothing that would have caused the collapse of the South African state — though some very telling documents do stand […]
In art-world terms, he’s not even out of diapers — but everyone wants a piece of Moshekwa Langa. HAZEL FRIEDMAN finds out why MOI? Artist Moshekwa Langa doesn’t exactly respond “But why me?” to my request for a meeting, and certainly not in French. But everything about his reaction — from the almost hysterical giggle […]
Angella Johnson A British woman’s five-year quest to discover who killed her fiance moved a step forward this week when one of two South African men being sought in connection with his kidnapping and murder was arrested in Johannesburg. Tarn Phillips, a 40-year-old London accountant, said she was delighted that William Chait (featured recently in […]
Phalaborwa, a mining town on the edge of the Kruger Park with a previously racist image, has successfully embraced the new South Africa, writes Mungo Soggot The huge trucks which ferry copper-rich rubble out of the Palabora Mining Company’s (PMC) pit around the clock stopped hauling for a few hours last Sunday morning and the […]
Ann Eveleth The leader of a right-wing plot to destabilise KwaZulu-Natal, Gerrit Anderson, launched a hunger strike this week in protest against an eight-year prison sentence he began last week. Anderson (41) skipped bail in May after being convicted of illegal possession of 10 home-made pipe-guns in connection with an Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging (AWB) plot to […]
Doctors, heal your profession, is the call as pressure mounts on the medical profession to hold its own truth commission. Rehana Rossouw reports Isaac Rani was tortured for three days by security police after they arrested him in the Sixties for leaving South Africa for military training. On the third day, he was visited by […]
communications adviser, in The Mark Gevisser Profile Is he a man or a moustache? `DO you know Leni Riefenstal?” Craig Kotze asks me. “I think I sometimes feel a bit like her. She did something for the art of communication, of strategy, and got caught up in the political situation.” Riefenstal, of course, was the […]
Angella Johnson and Stuart Hess Crime fighting in South Africa is being hampered by a 22 479-person staff shortage in the South African Police Service, according to a study carried out by the SAPS. Research conducted by the police human resources division found that the ideal national headcount for the SAPS to function effectively should […]