Rehana Rossouw HAROLD WILLIAMS was shot dead while carrying three dead chickens to his squatter home near Durbanville, outside Cape Town. T he chickens had been dumped by nearby chicken factories and were due to be burned. Williams, the father of two children aged 16 and 13, was shot as a trespasser while walking home […]

Andy Duffy FIRST NATIONAL BANK (FNB) has given ousted managing director Barry Swart a pay-off barely different to the salary he would have earned had he not been fired. The bank, which released its year-end results this week, is refusing to disclose terms of the settlement which were agreed to in September when Swart left […]

The flamboyant socialite and claimed friend of African National Congress leaders is being investigated for `illegal possession’ of unwrought gold worth millions.Stefaans Brmmer reports PAUL EKON, the flamboyant young millionaire who claims African National Congress leaders as friends, is being investigated by police for his possible involvement in a gold- smuggling racket which a Supreme […]

Prison warders gave prior warning of an escape in which some of their colleagues were involved, writes Ann Eveleth T HREE prisoners awaiting trial for taxi violence escaped from prison near Durban on Sunday with inside help.nnThe warders who allegedly helped the men get out of Westville Prison were also linked to the taxi industry, […]

An article published by Rapport has sparked a fierce row between two leading Afrikaners, writes Rehana Rossouw MOST readers who take umbrage against an article which appears in a newspaper will write one letter to the editor and leave it at that. But an unusual row has developed at Rapport between its editor, Izak de […]

CHARLES BESTER of Stutterheim (M&G November 1 to 7) surely has his head buried in the sand. If he listened carefully to my argument, he would understand why we need a navy. Our country has a 3 000km coastline, an Extended Economic Zone 200 nautical miles from our shores, which doubles our sovereign territory, fish […]

Clive Barker has assembled his strongest sqaud to date, and he will need all the talent he can get in the vital World Cup match against Zaire SOCCER:Andrew Muchineripi NATIONAL coach Clive Barker this week described Saturday’s World Cup qualifying game against Zaire as the “most important game of my life, and one that we […]

Mungo Soggot A JOHANNESBURG businessman who fled from his R205-million marathon fraud trial to Australia could become the second alleged foreign exchange fraudster this month to be reeled in from exile. Edward Dutton (38), former managing director of hardboard company Interboard, will appear in court in Sydney on November 18 to fight a South African […]

Surprised to be invited to this month’s SANDF `live firepower demonstration’, Sheen Duncan, human rights campaigner, wrote this letter to the defence force chief, Brigadier van Graan I HAVE received the invitation from General Georg Meiring to the fireworks display on November 16 (at the Army Battle School, Lohatle). I do not understand how my […]