Joshua Amupadhi SEVERAL high schools near Johannesburg are under police guard after 14 pupils died recently in mysterious circumstances. In one incident a week ago, four men allegedly abducted two high school pupils attending funerals at KwaThema graveyard, 50km east of Johannesburg, shot one dead and wounded the other in the chest. But now pupils […]
Putting Rhodes University on the tracks of transformation may not be easy, writes Peter Dickson, but it appears the right man to do so is now at the helm THERE was a time in the 1980s when Rhodes University stood at the forefront of apartheid resistance on South Africa’s liberal English-speaking university campuses. But with […]
deal Stefaans Br?mmer CAMERON commissioner Laurie Nathan this week joined the chorus of concern over South Africa’s decision to sell arms to Rwanda, saying the government had not complied with its own criteria on exports to sensitive areas. Water Affairs and Forestry Minister Kader Asmal, who heads the Cabinet committee responsible for arms control, countered […]
Discussions on the finer points of the Constitution are stretching negotiations to the very last minute. Marion Edmunds reports ATTEMPTS by political parties and public groups to bring new issues into the Constitution-amending process, or to stretch old ones out, is partly responsible for holding up agreement on matters referred back to the Constitutional Assembly. […]
Hazel Friedmnan reports on a new twist in the Jurgen Schadeberg/Jim Bailey saga involving the copyright of Drum photograhs THE long and bitter battle by ex-Drum photographer Jurgen Schadeberg to reclaim ownership of his photographs from Jim Bailey, who owned the pioneering African magazine in the Fifties and Sixties, has taken an ominous turn. In […]
TENNIS:Jon Swift PERHAPS one of the better things about ageing – and there aren’t that many – is that you can, given the opportunity, alter the rules to suit. Certainly this looks the case with the draw for the up-coming MTN Champions Tournament at Sandton Square – done in Washington and not locally, the organisers […]
Julian Drew AFTER staging the extremely successful world cross country championships in March, Stellenbosch once again gets the opportunity to put Cape Town’s Olympic bid on the map when it stages the Modern Pentathlon World Cup on Saturday. Olympian Claud Cloete of Cape Town, who finished 15th in Atlanta out of the 32- strong field, […]
The 1996 Southern African film festival in Harare has just drawn to a close. Andrew Worsdale was there. MOST African films suffer from the development paradigm: the funding situation gets in the way of true cinematic story- telling. Certainly the line-up of 1996 award-winners reflected such paradoxes. Most of the films were old and several […]
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/ 27 September 1996
allegations Eddie Koch AN investigations team at the Transvaal attorney general’s office is working around the clock to probe at least 50 incidents of violence and murder in which security force generals and former Cabinet ministers have been implicated by Eugene de Kock. The barrage of allegations presented in De Kock’s testimony in the Pretoria […]
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/ 27 September 1996
PRESSURES for the reintroduction of the death penalty in South Africa continue to rise. With something of a campaign on the issue led by the National Party, The Star claims a survey it conducted shows that 93% of the population has joined the “hang ’em high” brigade – at least to the extent that they […]