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 […]
In an intriguing Coca-Cola Cup final clash, the=20 Orlando Pirates attackers come up against the=20 unyielding Wits defenders SOCCER: Nelson Rashava CAN sheer skill overcome motivation, commitment and=20 perseverance on the big occasion? Will Orlando Pirates=20 regain their confidence and verve after a drab display=20 against Bloemfontein Celtic? Can underdogs Wits=20 University sustain their dominance […]
Karen Harverson South Africa will not accept foreign aid unless it can=20 afford to finance the follow-through infrastructure or=20 it will end up like the rest of Africa — full of half- built hospitals and unfinished roads, said Finance=20 Minister Chris Liebenberg.=20 Speaking at a recent business breakfast, Liebenberg=20 said South Africa had a reputation […]