FRIDAY, 8.30AM ANC martyr Chris Hani allegedly ordered his men to kill an ANC official he suspected of being a police agent, the truth comission heard on Thursday. Brothers Joe and Conrad Nkuna, both ANC members, jailed in 1995 for the attempted murder of ANC official Johannes Shabangu, are applying for amnesty on the grounds […]
De Beers has lost another lucrative source of African diamonds. This time to a new contender linked to mercenary group Executive Outcomes. Chris Gordon reports BRANCH Energy Angola, the company linked to South African mercenary operation Executive Outcomes, has received a new mining concession from the Angolan government, making it one of Angola’s most significant […]
FRIDAY, 11.00AM: THE South African National Defence Force has suffered huge losses due to theft in the past year, Defence Minister Joe Modise told Parliament on Thursday. Modise estimated the value of the thefts at R6,4-million. He said 116 firearms, 10 688 rounds of ammunition and 110 vehicles were stolen from the SANDF and 187 […]
The women of Arabia are emerging from behind Islamic restrictions to take their place in the corporate world. Kathy Evans reports from Doha IT was not an auspicious start to the first ever conference on the rights of Arabian women in the workplace. “No cameras, no recording equipment,” said a veiled policewoman, guarding the conference […]
The citizens of Kinshasa, the sprawling capital of Zaire, await the outcome of the Mobutu-Kabila peace talks with mounting fear. Chris McGreal reports LEOPOLD MUANDO’s first venture into futuristic art sits among his realist paintings of Zairean soldiers tearing Kinshasa apart and the ever-present trauma of Aids. Muando’s imagination has conjured up a vision of […]
censored Andrew Worsdale THE Publications Control Board has banned a movie already flighted several times in South Africa and, for the first time ever, a poster for a film. Caligula, produced in 1980 by Bob Guccione of Penthouse magazine and directed by Tinto Brass, tells the story of the decadent Roman whose rule was characterised […]
Ann Eveleth KWAZULU-NATAL has been forced to re-employ 230 senior teach- ers, including 60 principals, who had been given hefty retrenchment packages under the state teacher redeployment programme. The province said this week the teachers have been re-employed at their previous salaries, many until the end of the year, because there were no immediate replacements. […]
THREE years after the changing of the guard in Pretoria, the ease of South Africa’s transition relative to revolutionary upheavals elsewhere in the world is testimony to the remarkable political skills of President Nelson Mandela. It also shows the fundamental solidity and decency of ordinary South Africans of every hue. Yet, for all the talk […]
FRIDAY, 4.00PM: HEALTH Minister Dr Nkosazana Zuma may be taken to court over the Health Department’s proposal that medical students and interns have their training extended by two years of vocational training. Students and interns appointed attorneys to study the legal implications of Zuma’s scheme, which they say was announced unilaterally, with no chance of […]
FRIDAY, 11.00AM: THE Gauteng Lions rugby team are to discuss injured Springbok flyhalf Hennie le Roux’s position in the team at a meeting on Monday night at Ellis Park. Le Roux recently denied rumours of his transfer and reports that he had a fall-out with GLRU president Dr Louis Luyt in New Zealand. Le Roux […]