Questions are being raised about why Alfred Nzo’s Chinese visit included ANC MPs, writes Gaye Davis A POLITICAL row is brewing over Minister of Foreign Affairs Alfred Nzo’s visit to China, with questions to be asked in Parliament as to why his delegation included four African National Congress MPs. Questions have also been raised over […]

Ricardo Dunn The Department of Correctional Services will hold an inquiry into the death in custody of rightwinger Lood van Schalkwyk. Right-wing groups have accused the Government of National Unity of negligence after the death of van Schalkwyk. The groups claimed this week that the Correctional Services authorities knew of Van Schalkwyk’s serious gall-bladder infection, […]

lively in Rome TENNIS: Jon Swift THERE is, provided you are not a tennis player, something remarkably special about Rome. The city lives. This vibrancy in the very air you breathe in the Italian capital is in sharp contrast to the stadium where the nation plays its tennis. The Foro Italico is as dead as […]

Playing Francois Pienaar out of position was the wrong move, but Chris Rossouw moving from hooker to eighthman was a success for Transvaal RUGBY: Jon Swift THERE are those who still believe fervently in the school of thought so successfully propagated by the late Danie Craven that if a man is what the Doc called […]

Rehana Rossouw MARTIN WELZ, editor of noseWEEK, is one of a kind. His one-man-band magazine is the only investigative journal in the country, despite the fact that it is run from his home. This is the first time noseWEEK has been taken to court, despite the publication’s record of exposing information many would prefer remained […]

Revelations about his alleged tax evasion have led to a dentist bringing a multi-million rand defamation case against two publications, writes Rehana Rossouw AN American-born dentist given South African citizenship in 1981, Dr Robert Milton Hall, “knew how never to pay tax and how to make a living out of fiddling the Finrand”. This is […]

CRICKET: Jon Swift IN SOME ways, the B&H final at Wanderers on Friday evening is cause for celebration of the cricketing rather than liquid variety which so marred some matches in the day-night series this summer. In other ways it is cause for regret. The enduring sponsor bows out of the game in this finale, […]

David Beresford The government appears to be hastily back- pedalling on an extraordinary plan to build a gigantic monument — at a cost of some R50- million — modelled on President Nelson Mandela’s hand as a “beacon of freedom” for South Africa. The disembodied hand, standing 23 metres in height and “breaking out of jail […]

AS the parties move into intense negotiations about “provincial powers” at an Arniston bosberaad, the African National Congress is trying to dismiss the suspicion that its latest drafts on provincial competencies do not comply with the constitutional principles, inherited from the multi-party negotiations at Kempton Park. The constitutional principle in question states that provincial powers […]