Organising Jo’burg’s streets is crucial to new investment, but street traders are taking issue with the new laws, reports Ferial Haffajee THE implementation of state-of-the-art by- laws to streamline hawking on Johannesburg’s streets has been indefinitely delayed as the Johannesburg Metropolitan Council hurries to start a hawker education programme, meant to have been completed by […]
Zaire’s president has reinstated a dictatorial governor he removed four years ago. Chris McGreal reports from Lumbumbashi IT is four years since Kyungu wa Kumwanza tried to revive an independent Katanga with the brutal ethnic cleansing of one million people. He even went so far as to declare secession from Zaire. It cost the demagogic […]
Ferial Haffajee COMMUNICATIONS Minister Jay Naidoo is definitely going to sell another 10% of Telkom. He just hasn’t worked out how he’s going to do it yet. Last week’s R5,58-billion deal to sell a third of Telkom to American and Malaysian partners was signed without an empowerment component. Naidoo’s next task will be to fine-tune […]
This year’s Rustlers Valley Easter Festival became a battle between the ravers and the hippies, reports SUZYBELL A WOODPECKER screeched as 900 Gemini twins howled at the half-eaten moon. Yup, the rave scene has infiltrated this once laid- back hippie pastoral happening – Rustlers Easter festival. “It’s just thud, thud, thud, thud,” moaned the hippies. […]
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 […]