Head of the Occult-related Crime Unit, Colonel=20 Kobus Jonker, in The Mark Gevisser Profile=20 There’s a child’s drawing, on Colonel Kobus=20 Jonker’s pinboard, of two stick-figures with arms=20 flailing against each other in a crayon-sea of=20 bileful yellow. One figure is labelled, in=20 childlike script, “Oom Kobus”; the other is=20 labelled “Satanis”. The drawing was […]
RDP officer Frank Meintjies reacts to criticisms by Nicoli Nattrass in a recent edition of the Mail & Guardian Government (and Cabinet) is aware that mechanisms such as the RDP Fund, the Presidential Lead Projects and, for example, RDP offices in provinces are an anomaly. They are in tension with the idea that all government […]
The latest study on media inflation indicates that advertising spending in South Africa is set to exceed R4,6-billion, reports Neil Bierbaum IF advertisers think they can increase their budgets for next year in line with the Consumer Price Index (CPI) they will find themselves losing their share of voice, particularly if they are spending most […]
Dear Walter,=20 I AM in trouble. It came on Monday morning in the=20 form of a letter from Oslo. The envelope was=20 immediately recognisable, featuring heavily- embossed scenes of people being blown to pieces.=20 The Nobel people have a sense of history.=20 Inside was a note from senior management at their=20 gunpowder factory, advising that […]
For women to have any real power in society, they=20 need to be represented in the Budget, argues ANC MP=20 Pregs Govender=20 WHILE women have won initial victories by filling=20 positions of political power, economic power still=20 lies where it always has — with a few new black=20 faces — in the all-male white echelons […]
THE local government election campaign season is=20 getting underway. Thankfully, this should bring a=20 shift of focus: from arcane debates about=20 boundaries to the issues and the candidates. Who,=20 in short, one should vote for. On what basis should=20 one make one’s choice: historical party loyalty or=20 the best available individual?=20 While this election is […]
SWIMMING: Julian Drew WITH a series of brilliant performances this year 20-year-old swimmer Penny Heyns from Durban has swum herself into contention as one of the favourites to win gold at next year’s Olympic Games in Atlanta. As early as April at the national championships in Durban she showed her intentions for the year with […]
Victims of the Masterbond crash have the crusading=20 zeal of one man to thank for last month’s fraud=20 conviction of three of the company’s directors,=20 writes Rehana Rossouw=20 MASTERBOND crusader Don MacKenzie can give you the=20 low-down on the effects of white-collar crime –=20 after all, two of the 12 600 victims of the=20 investment […]
WAS it bought? Would a poor unemployed black man=20 have received the same verdict? Was this a triumph=20 of lawyers over justice? The questions in the wake=20 of the “not guilty” verdict in the OJ Simpson trial=20 are unending.=20 Commentators who believe the trial was hijacked by=20 the 17 lawyers on the Simpson defence team […]
The United Cricket Board is taking the game to the people, and not just South Africa’s people but to other countries in Africa as well CRICKET: Jon Swift THERE is a certain strangeness about the notion that international cricket will be played at Paarl. In the recent South African experience the Boland town is a […]