Angella Johnson IT was certainly three times lucky for “Lucky” Malaza. The convicted bank robber, mistakenly released from jail four years ago as a political prisoner, was recently arrested by the police for kidnapping, but released within an hour. Charges were dropped against him when the victim refused to give evidence and the man with […]

Joshua Amupadhi EVEN before Beau Brummell’s nudist resort went bankrupt the International Naturist Federation had expelled him from their ranks. They say he is a pornographer. And his wife agrees. After 18 years of letting it all hang out, nudist king and porno-dealer Beau Brummell (his real name is Michael Bush) has put his clothes […]

Institute of Race Relations president says apartheid was not a crime against humanity, reports Mungo Soggot IN a furious debate over apartheid’s status as a crime against humanity, Mpumalanga Premier Mathews Phosa this week lashed out at Cape Town academic Professor Hermann Giliomee as “standing in the trenches of apartheid”. At the eye of the […]

GROUP 1 NIGERIA Previous appearances: 1962, 1970, 1974, 1978, 1982, 1986, 1990, 1994 Record: Played 50, won 23, drawn 15, lost 12, goals for 82, against 52 Best result: Sierra Leone 6-2 Worst result: Ghana 1-4 Key player: Midfielder Augustine Okocha Coach: Amodu Shaibu Rankings: 13 Africa, 63 world Nickname: Super Eagles GUINEA Appearances: 1974, […]

Mungo Soggot THE selection of Professor Sam Nolutshungu as the University of the Witwatersrand’s new vice-chancellor may have grabbed the headlines in South Africa, but it passed by the United States university town of Rochester. The local newspaper had not heard of Nolutshungu, a political science professor at Rochester, never mind his sensational victory before […]

Joshua Amupadhi THE 17 universities and technikons created for blacks are struggling to survive in the post-apartheid era. Some face closure unless drastic rescue efforts are put in train. About 100 000 students are at the universities with more than 30 000 at the technikons. The warning about their plight comes from Professor Cecil Abrahams, […]

The soldiers of Five Recce have never hesitated when it comes to charging into battle, but the regiment has been more tentative in adapting to change in South Africa, writes Stefaans Brmmer PHALABORWA is the type of mining town where streets are still named after the likes of presidents Steyn and Kruger. Its burghers give […]

Rehana Rossouw PEOPLE Against Gangsterism and Drugs (Pagad) campaign in Cape Town is beginning to affect police attempts to combat crime, the South African Police Service (SAPS) claimed this week. Western Cape police representative, senior superintendent John Sterrenberg, said between April and last week Pagad held 43 demonstrations and marches which have been policed by […]

Claudia Braude PRIOR to one of the lectures of the three candidates for the position of vice- chancellor at Wits last week, I bumped into Professor Alan Kemp, deputy vice-chancellor. The last time I’d seen him he was in the process of reviewing the continued viability of Wits University Press. “Have you succeeded in shutting […]

A new Johannesburg studio is moving body- piercing and fetishism into the mainstream. DROR EYAL pops by for a prick EVERYWHERE you go nowadays there are little techno babes in uncomfortable shoes, trying to score E, flashes of bare midriffs revealing discreet little navel rings. The happy shiny kids of tomorrow. Faceless techno music blasting […]