With the competition of such high quality, the right tactics will be vital if South Africa’s teams are to do well at the cross- country championships ATHLETICS: Julian Drew IT seems like only yesterday that South Africa’s finest middle-distance athletes first put their reputations on the line in what is widely regarded as the toughest […]
The Ministry of Labour plans to take tough action if any officials are implicated in the Western Cape training programme scandal, reports Rehana Rossouw A CAPE company training unemployed and unskilled workers may have used fake identity books to defraud the Western Cape Department of Labour of more than R1- million. The department uncovered the […]
FINE ART: Suzy Bell IT was love letters that sparked his affair with art. Glorious love letters, whose envelopes were so highly beautified he could only just squeeze in the name and address of his lover. Some of these original envelopes – from bygone days when stamps cost two cents each – are on show […]
Carien du Plessis THE South African Police Service conceded this week that its child protection units (CPUs) only scratch the surface of the problem of child abuse in the country. Police were confronted with nearly 36 000 cases of child abuse last year, more than double the number in1993, and it is widely acknowledged that […]
The government is determined to push ahead with an ambitious programme of Budget reform. But change will not take place overnight, write Madeleine Wackernagel and Lynda Loxton THE country’s financing process is undergoing nothing short of a revolution, Director General of Finance Maria Ramos said this week. Briefing the parliamentary finance committee, Ramos agreed that […]
The truth commission exhumes bodies from security police death farms, one in an IFP- held area, reports Ann Eveleth ONE of the death farms uncovered by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission last week sits in the heart of an Inkatha Freedom Party stronghold in the volatile KwaZulu-Natal Midlands. Truth commission investigators last week exhumed the […]
Despite reopening old wounds, the truth commission has shifted public attitudes from denial to acknowledgement, reports David Goodman THE nine burly white policemen filed into the packed hearing of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) in Cape Town and took seats in the front row. One of the policemen tapped his foot uncontrollably; another was […]
Mungo Soggot THE R6-million fee United States consultants McKinsey charged the SABC for restructuring the broadcaster suggests Auckland Park had itself McKinsified at a snip. The British Broadcasting Corporation paid the American company several million pounds a year and up to 6-million in the 12 months leading to last year’s announcement of its major shake-up. […]
Ann Eveleth A KWAZULU-Natal policeman looks set to win the dubious record for the largest amnesty application filed so far with the Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s (TRC) amnesty committee. Commission insiders said a man who had provided a wide range of evidence to the TRC had recently applied for amnesty in connection with about 49 […]
JONATHAN ROMNEY has fallen in love with Breaking the Waves, Lars von Trier’s powerful new film about the absurdity and grandeur of lust NO FILM I saw last year has held me in its grip quite so hard as Lars von Trier’s Breaking The Waves. Given that your average critic sees upwards of 400 films […]