Stefaans Brummer In the run-up to last year’s elections, security police=20 planned a new ‘moderate’ political party to counter=20 support for the ANC, reports Stefaans BrUmmer ADVANCED secret plans by the security police to=20 introduce a new, anti-ANC “moderate” party to the=20 political spectrum were scuttled only by the mid-1991=20 Inkathagate debacle, former police operative […]

Justin Pearce Adult television viewers must decide for themselves=20 what they watch and don’t watch — and cannot expect=20 the SABC to censor itself to suit their tastes. This is=20 the essence of a judgment made by the Broadcasting=20 Complaints Commission (BCC) of South Africa concerning=20 an insert broadcast on NNTV’s youth magazine programme=20 The […]

Ann Eveleth Greater Durban Television (GDTV), South Africa’s first=20 regular community access television station, is up and=20 running, charting new waters in public broadcasting. GDTV is operating under a temporary licence granted to=20 a coalition of community-based video groups by the=20 Independent Broadcasting Authority. GDTV took to the airwaves last week with a range of=20 […]

Pat Sidley A RAND Supreme Court judge has issued an extraordinary=20 gagging order aimed at silencing speculation about a=20 controversial businessman’s private life and its=20 confusion with his business tasks. The businessman, Bart Dorrestein is the deputy=20 executive chairman of the large property development=20 company Stocks and Stocks listed on the Johannesburg=20 Stock Exchange. His […]

After a long period of monastic silence, the lure of the July was too tempting for Thomas Equinus and he is back in the saddle predicting a 16-1 winner BETTING on the Rothmans July will be even more hazardous this year. The race is run in KwaZulu/Natal, a highly inflammable civil war zone. By the […]

Paul Erasmus describes his initiation into ‘dirty=20 tricks’ against the left. This is the first of a=20 series of extracts from his manuscript Not long after I joined the security police (in January=20 1977), I was told by my colleagues and superiors,=20 including section head Major JHL Jordaan and=20 lieutenants At Kellerman (who later became […]

Jacques Magliolo reports on the CBD’s captive market, the stockbroking fraternity STOCKBROKERS are unlikely to abandon the Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE) building in a mass exodus once automated trading is implemented. This is the feeling of a number of stockbrokers, who were responding to media speculation that once an automated trading system (ATS) has been […]

Stefaans Brummer PAUL Erasmus, former security policeman who admitted in=20 the Mail & Guardian his role in a 1989 death attempt on=20 cleric Frank Chikane, this week made peace with the=20 former general secretary of the South African Council=20 of Churches (SACC). The approach by Erasmus followed a request by Chikane – – who has […]

Stefaans BrUmmer DEPUTY President FW de Klerk this week distanced=20 himself from post-1990 security force “dirty tricks”=20 operations, while the ANC parliamentary study group on=20 safety and security said denials were to be expected. The tete-a-tete followed revelations in last week’s=20 Mail & Guardian by former police operative Paul Erasmus=20 of his involvement in the […]

The right of a child to refuse religious instruction=20 enshrined in the new Gauteng Education Bill has=20 caused an outcry, reports Gavin du Venage The Gauteng Education Bill has come under attack from=20 Jewish, Muslim and Christian schools who fear it will=20 outlaw their right to provide religious teaching. Muslim schools have also objected to […]