The officer handling a rape case on Robben Island this week was himself accused of rape six years ago, report Rehana Rossouw and Gustav Thiel The police officer investigating the rape on Robben Island of political activist Nomboniso Gasa this week was himself accused of rape six years ago. Captain Kevin Jones was tried in […]

ATHLETICS: Julian Drew MANY of South Africa’s best middle distance athletes will not be in East London on Saturday when the trials for the world cross country championships take place. Three of South Africa’s four world class women have decided the March world championships in Turin do not feature in their plans for 1997, while […]

Chris McGreal in Kigali THE Zairean government this week finally ordered its much-threatened counter- offensive against Rwandan-backed rebels who have seized swathes of territory in the east. But despite claiming it has Libyan support, there is little evidence that Zaire’s battered and ill-disciplined army is any more able to carry out the directive from the […]

South Africa’s specialist batsmen will have to perform more consistently in the tough one-day series and against the competitive Australians CRICKET: Jon Swift TO properly quantify the true shape of a Test match, it is perhaps necessary to examine the best of the batting, how comfortable, confident and collected it manifested itself to be, and […]

chequebook Labour is debating investment schemes and how they can benefit union members.Eddie Koch and Jim Day report When Neil Aggett, the union activist who died in a John Vorster Square prison cell in early 1982 after being tortured by men from the special branch, was busy mobilising workers into the African Food and Canning […]

Will Namibia’s President Sam Nujoma change the Constitution to suit himself? Graham Hopwood reports from Windhoek THERE is growing speculation in Namibia that President Sam Nujoma will not stand down as president in 1999 as demanded by the country’s Constitution, but run for a third term in office. Support for Nujoma to run for another […]

Experts wonder why researchers did not come to them with their startling find. Science editor Lesley Cowling reports THREE Pretoria scientists broke every rule of scientific method this week when they took their research to a Cabinet meeting, saying they might have a cure for Aids. But the man representing them says they did this […]

RESEARCHERS at Onderstepoort Veterinary Institute are working on a new vaccine that could open up South African horse-racing to international competition. South Africa is home to a virus called African horsesickness, which is endemic in most of sub-Saharan Africa. Horses are infected by a species of blood-sucking midges called Culicoides. In trekker days, it led […]

Stuart Hess FOUR people have emerged as frontrunners for South Africa’s top soccer job following the resignation of soccer supremo Solomon “Stix” Morewa. Prominent members of the South African soccer fraternity this week named former South African National Football Association (Sanfa) chief George Thabe, former South African Soccer Association (Sasa) vice- president Thembi Mtokwane, the […]

SA musicians have come together to relaunch the main stage at Johannesburg’s Market Theatre. We profile who’s who of the old and the new – and look at why they’re making waves Maria McCloy on Kwaito CONTRARY to what he said in the press over the past two weeks, Arthur Mafokate, kwaito star and owner […]