Lawyers accuse KwaZulu/Natal Attorney General Tim McNally of wilfully avoiding uncovering the truth behind hit squad activities, reports Ann Eveleth A former security branch policeman eager to open his bag of dirty tricks is likely to go to jail on weapons charges instead; a policeman roams free three months after an inquest implicated him as […]
Openness in government has led to the rise of a new group of parliamentary lobbyists, reports Marion The new South Africa has given birth to a new breed of opportunists. They lurk in the corridors of power with files under their arms, monitor the parliamentary timetable, sit diligently through long committee meetings, and take every […]
RUGBY: Jon Swift THE game of rugby as we know it is dead. It matters not a whit in the greater scheme of things whether the Rupert Murdoch-Louis Luyt combination or the Kerry Packer circus finally gets the upper hand. The very fact that they are prepared to throw millions of dollars at the game […]
Karen Harverson Gold mines serviced by Anglo must be rightsized if they are to survive, said chairman of Anglo American Corporation’s Gold and Uranium division Clem Sunter at the announcement of the quarterly results last week. Rightsizing may involve reductions in the scale of operations at shafts, shaft closures, or both. It is only effected […]
Ethiopian Haile Gebresilasie is challenging the Kenyan domination of middle-distance events ATHLETICS: Julian Drew WHILE in South Africa this year middle-distance track running has been through something of a renaissance, thanks largely to the exploits of Shadrack Hoff and Hendrik Ramaala, in Europe the middle-distance world records have been taking a substantial battering. First to […]
Mapula Sibanda AN enraged husband gunned down his wife and her lover=20 in Sebokeng last Friday — and ignited a wave of=20 violence that left 15 people dead. The explosive mayhem laid bare the mounting tensions=20 over control of Sebokeng’s five hostels among various=20 Xhosa clans and Basothos. “I knew the man who died from […]
MARIKE DE KLERK won’t be lunching with President Nelson=20 Mandela on Friday — she wasn’t invited. Tienie Vorster=20 and Elize Botha will be there, alongside Adelaide Tambo=20 and Albertina Sisulu, at a lunch hosted by the=20 President for the wives of former South African prime=20 ministers, presidents and liberation movement leaders.=20 Amina Cachalia, who was […]
GOLF: Jon Swift IT WAS hard to equate John Daly, the man who held the claret jug aloft at St Andrews last weekend, with the red-eyed rebel who had to be carried shirtless, rubber legged and near comatose to his room at the Sun City But then, they are surely not the same person. This […]
What do you do when you discover your domestic worker=20 is HIV-positive? A Johannesburg doctor, who cannot be=20 named for professional reasons, came across two=20 startlingly different cases I am a doctor employed in one of the public hospitals=20 in Johannesburg. One of my duties is to consult with=20 patients in the hospitals’ so-called HIV […]
Clive Simpkins PALLO JORDAN is emphatic about not privatising Telkom, yet the Post Office — its sister megalith in our communications industry — is an example of monopolistic and bureaucratic business at its worst. I wrote recently that the mail service was degenerating into a non-service. It’s actually got worse. I received no mail in […]