Misapprehensions and misrepresentations followed the=20 Irish Republican leader on his visit to South Africa,=20 writes David Beresford There was, it must be said, room for misunderstanding,=20 and misunderstanding there surely was as the Irish=20 Republican leader made a triumphant entry into the=20 Transvaal shanty town of Phola Park on Sunday. “I don’t know who this […]

Bronwen Roberts FARMERS in the Somerset East area are desperately=20 trying to get about 8 000kg of biltong ready for the=20 town’s Biltong Festival next weekend — but will this=20 be enough? Front page headlines in the local newspaper have for=20 weeks asked: “Sal daar genoeg droewors wees vir die=20 fees? (Will be there be […]

THEATRE: David Le Page LARA FOOT has directed a rather noisy silent movie.=20 It’s called Womb Tide, and is masquerading as theatre=20 in the Laager at the Market, complete with a little=20 boer clown, an alternatively vulgar and sympathetic=20 heroine, and a properly precocious child. The filmic elements abound. Brian Webber plays a=20 congenitally awkward […]

A former security policeman opens his bag of dirty=20 tricks. Eddie Koch and Stefaans Brummer report THE State Security Council under former President FW de=20 Klerk created a four-year plan to undermine and weaken=20 the ANC and its allies in the build-up to the 1994=20 Details of the extensive dirty tricks plan, planned to=20 run […]

All Black legend Colin Meads has fond memories=20 of the traditional rivalry between South Africa=20 and New Zealand RUGBY: Mark Lamport-Stokes IT IS a fact generally accepted that sport mirrors=20 life, and especially the society in which it exists. In=20 sport, there is heroism, disappointment, high drama,=20 even moments of embarrassment and sheer boredom. Sport=20 […]

NATIONAL Party MPs gave a fresh fillip this week to=20 their long and deserved reputation for hypocrisy by=20 their demands for a referendum on capital punishment.=20 As one of the parties to South Africa’s political=20 settlement the Nats can hardly fail to be aware that=20 there is a division of constitutional powers which puts=20 the […]

Justin Pearce Signs at Johannesburg General Hospital stating that=20 patients can be routinely tested for HIV are to be=20 removed, says superintendent Dr Robert Odes. This follows a complaint by an outraged patient who=20 recognised that routine testing was contrary to Health=20 Department policy and World Health Organisation=20 guidelines. The Aids Law Project at the […]

Rehana Rossouw THE Department of Foreign Affairs has been blasted for=20 “embarrassing” South Africa by not affording diplomatic=20 recognition to fellow Organisation of African Unity=20 member, the Sahrawi Republic. African National Congress executive committee member=20 Jeremy Cronin, writing in the South African Communist=20 Party publication African Communist, gave two examples=20 of South Africa’s ambiguous relationship […]

South Africa’s input at the UN conference on the=20 extension of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty won=20 wide acclaim, writes Abdul Minty provides some=20 background to the decison THERE has been considerable confusion and=20 misunderstanding about the Nuclear Non-Proliferation=20 Treaty (NPT) Review and Extension Conference which=20 took place at the United Nations headquarters during=20 April and […]

FORMER security policeman Paul Erasmus has given the=20 first explanation of what happened to Mamelodi activist=20 Stanza Bopape, who disappeared without trace in 1987. Erasmus never dealt with Bopape, but he was told by two=20 of his colleagues that Bopape was beaten to death=20 during interrrogation on the 10th floor of John Vorster=20 Square in […]