Hezekiel Sepeng hasn’t broken the South African record yet, but he’s running into form at the right time ATHLETICS: Julian Drew EVER since Hezekiel Sepeng burst onto the scene as a fresh faced junior in 1993 to inject some much needed life into a stagnant local 800m scene the pressure has been on him to […]
Desmond Tutu, chairman of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, in The Mark Gevisser Profile WONDERFUL! Wonderful! Wonderful! Ever since I spent time with Desmond Tutu a few weeks ago, I have caught myself, repeatedly, doing The Arch whenever something has pleased me. Head thrown back, arms extended upwards in an angelic “V”, spasms of praise […]
Rehana Rossouw ONE of Cape Town’s most notorious gang leaders, Rashied Staggie, was caught red- handed breaking into a Woodstock home last year. Last week, he walked free out of court after the charges against him were dropped. The police investigating officer could not produce the three witnesses lined up to give evidence against Staggie, […]
Ann Eveleth ANC MP Billy Nair is the next witness to take the stand in the trial of General Magnus Malan and his 19 co-accused which gets going again in the Durban Supreme Court on Monday. Nair — an ANC and South African Communist Party stalwart — was one of four targets allegedly chosen by […]
HAZEL FRIEDMAN attends three remarkable plays in which juvenile offenders express themselves with the aid of Puppets in Prison SEAN MCKINLEY admits to being proud of nothing in his young life. Except his digestive system. “Shit man, I’m good at swallowing anything — cell-phones, watches … you name it, I chow it.” From a distance, […]
The social costs involved in losing skilled immigrants has led to complaints about the ineptitude of home Affairs officials, reports Marion Edmunds Department of trade and industry officials revealed this week they had to intervene to ensure skilled foreigners are not prevented access to the South African job market by inept members of the Department […]
Nelson Mandela asked Washington for help in rescuing South African journalist Phillip van Niekerk from Liberia after he was trapped in the fighting this week. When the guns began firing in down-town Monrovia, Van Niekerk, the Southern African correspondent for the M&G’s sister newspaper The Observer, was the only foreign newsman left in Liberia. South […]
Eddie Koch No one can say the tacticians of the truth commission did not expect a battle. Only it came with surprising speed and ferocity from an unexpected quarter. For months, commissioners have been warily watching the movements of what has become known as the sleeping dragon, agents of apartheid’s death squads, for signs it […]
Jacquie Golding-Duffy The conventional belief among commercial radio stations that education programmes lose rather than gain listeners has been challenged by the popularity of educational programmes on community radio stations. Siven Maslamoney, director of Ulwazi educational radio project, a non-profit, pilot educational radio project for adults, says it is “encouraging to see that the commitment […]
Reforms aimed at turning Zimbabwe into Africa’s first ‘newly industrialised country’ have missed their mark, argues economist Richard Saunders IN the latest round of adjustment-related shocks in Zimbabwe, government health facilities have been brought to the brink of collapse iby funding cuts which have seen Harare hospitals asking patients’ families to supply relatives with food. […]