Stefaans Brummer More allegations linking Winnie mandela to the 1989 murder of teenage activist Stompie Seipei and other crimes emerged this week as she prepared to sue former President FW de Klerk for a police discreditation campaign against her. Trainer of the controversial Mandela Football Club, Jerry Richardson, jailed in 1990 for the murder of […]
THERE appears — this week at least — to be no contradiction in South African society which cannot be resolved, no chasm which cannot be crossed, no disagreement which negotiation cannot end. An optimistic conclusion? Certainly, but justified in a week when organised labour, business and government have agreed on the content of a comprehensive […]
CRICKET: Jon Swift THE initial reaction to the International Cricket=20 Council’s (ICC) ruling on the naming of squads for the=20 1996 World Cup in Pakistan was that the process was=20 being hurried along with undue haste. Perhaps so, but it needs to be looked at more closely=20 from this country’s perspective. Not least of all=20 […]
Gaye Davis URGING stronger sanctions against French President Jacques Chirac’s decision to resume South Pacific nuclear tests, a range of South African organisations have called on the government to sever military and nuclear ties with France. Spanning environmental groups and religious and human rights bodies, the organisations made the call in letters to Foreign Minister […]
In this further extract from the manuscript of former security policeman Paul Erasmus, he describes his experiences in then-South West Africa, where he did border duty working alongside Koevoet ONE day, our group was given supposedly reliable information of a suspect “terr” weapons smuggling network, which was using sympathetic Ovambo long- distance drivers to convey […]
Rehana Rossouw and Steuart Wright The Narcotics Bureau has called in the might of the United States’ Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) to help stem the flow of drugs into the country. “We can use all the help we can get. The US government, and especially the DEA, have vast experience in the field of combating […]
Karen Harverson A draft Non-Profit Organisations Bill aimed at=20 improving and regulating the legal, policy and funding=20 environment for development organisations, such as non- governmental organisations (NGOs) and voluntary=20 associations, is to be finalised this month and=20 submitted to Parliament in February next year. The draft Bill calls for the scrapping of existing=20 fund-raising laws […]
THEATRE: David Le Page CUBA and His Teddy Bear: it sounds like a children’s=20 play, and by and large it is likely to be adolescents=20 who will most enjoy this frank work about the=20 relationship between a father, Cuba, his son, Teddy,=20 and drugs — a rather unique menage a trois, in which=20 the imperfection […]
The new Police Bill balances human rights with the need to combat crime, writes Azhar Cachalia t is probably true that crime has become the factor which occupies the minds of South Africans more than any other issue in our new democracy. As the police, courts and communities battle to deal with the problem, we […]
Marion Edmunds The Speaker of the National Assembly, Dr Frene Ginwala, has a British passport, which has been renewed since the April elections. She denies it represents a lack of faith in her own country. Ginwala said this week she always travelled on her South African passport, and that she did not think that she […]