A touring photographic exhibition is at last telling the truth about Hitler’s reluctant army. And some Germans don’t like it, reports STEPHEN PLAICE THE honourable German soldier coerced and corrupted by the Nazis has become one of the century’s most powerful icons, an everyman for an age mired in moral ambivalence. It has been perpetuated […]
Fifty years ago Jackie Robinson kept a date with destiny to defy the bigots. Pat Putnam celebrates the historic day when a major talent stepped up to bring baseball’s race barriers tumbling down IT has been a Lincolnian two score and 10 years since the time when sport was an all- white domain in the […]
Benjamin Pogrund joins the debate over the Jewish community and its role in apartheid A HAUNTING memory as a child in Cape Town is of my father weeping when news reached him in the 1940s about the murder of our relatives in Lithuania. They were among the more than 260 000 Jews wiped out in […]
More often than not the Australian batsmen have managed to blunt South Africa’s pace attack, but our leading batsmen have proved more brittle CRICKET:Pat McDermott THE St George’s Park wicket is not one that the South African team will look back on with anything other than suspicion. The uncompromising strip has not treated them well […]
The Johannesburg child protection unit has failed to act on a seemingly watertight case, reports Stuart Hess HE stands on a Hillbrow street corner, selling sweets to children. To the unsuspecting, Isaac Tshipe is just another street vendor; but to four-year-old Thembi (not her real name) he is the man who raped and assaulted her […]
Robben Island rape victim Nomboniso Gasa speaks out on police foul-ups and a carefully orchestrated campaign to smear her through the Afrikaans-owned media, reports Gustav Thiel LEADING feminist Nomboniso Gasa believes she has been raped twice: first by the man who attacked her on Robben Island, and then by police who botched the investigation, and […]
Morals have no role to play in the drive for trade, report Marion Edmunds and Carien du Plessis SOUTH AFRICA’S international trade is being buoyed by soaring business with some of the world’s leading violators of human rights. Latest figures show South Africa is enjoying much of its strongest growth in exports and imports from […]
Lynda Loxton ANOTHER black empowerment deal emerged this week when black-controlled LA Retail Stores announced it had bought branded clothing and footwear marketer Skye Products for R115,6-million. Gauteng-based Skye, best known for distributing international brands of running shoes and clothing to stores and independent retailers throughout the country for the last 32 years, will treble […]
Glynis O’ Hara GILLIAN SLOVO and I are sitting in a hotel lounge discussing her new book, Every Secret Thing: My Family, My Country, when a couple walk in, throw themselves on a couch nearby and say: “Have you read Gillian Slovo’s new book? It’s really good.” The woman looks over at us and recognition […]
Gustav Thiel THE war between Cape Town’s drug lords and People Against Gangsterism and Drugs (Pagad) is heading for the ballot box. Notorious gangster Rashied Staggie has announced that he will contest the 1999 elections, while Pagad is said to be forming a political party for the elections. Staggie, the twin brother of Rashaad Staggie […]