Tricky revolutionised UK hip-hop with his debut album, Maxinquaye. Seasoned music writer SHERYL GARRATT considers his breed of cross-over TO punks, disco was the enemy. Veterans of the battle of the beat are now a bit sheepish about telling their war stories, but not so very long ago the British music press was split into […]
BILL CLINTON’s promise in the 1992 presidential campaign to “end welfare as we know it” is turning out to be all too true. As the next election approaches, he has bowed to a Republican Congress, signing a Bill that abolishes the federal safety net set up after the Depression to protect those most at risk. […]
Mungo Soggot reports on a bizarre supreme court case against the dog squad which has cost the taxpayer about R60 000 THE police dog squad has spent about R60 000 of taxpayers’ money challenging allegations that it stole a design for a dog kennel despite a supreme court judgment against it last year which found […]
Mohammed Farah Aideed, the Somali warlord who humiliated the United States in 1993, died last week in clan fighting. Mark Huband witnessed his bloody career first-hand HE was usually grinning, broadly enough to expose a sparkling gold tooth at the back of his mouth. It sparkled almost as brightly as the massive diamond perched on […]
Tebello Radebe The stage is set for powerful foreign interests to play an increasingly dominant role in the domestic air travel industry — first came South African Airways’ (SAA) link-up with Lufthansa, then the Comair-British Airways (BA) franchise deal, and now it is the Virgin Airlines and Sun Air talks. Virgin Airlines’ South African representative […]
Ann Eveleth Three policemen facing murder charges in connection with the Christmas 1995 Shoba-shobane massacre of 19 African National Congress supporters are back at work in neighbouring Nkulu ward, police confirmed this week. Sergeants Bekeni Mngadi, Muzuvukile Ngeleka and Joseph Zulu were suspended from their posts at the Izingolweni police station in May after their […]
Has that 15-million been well spent — or did Newcastle want Alan Shearer more than they actually needed him? SOCCER: Paul Wilson ACCORDING to the feedback from the Atlanta Games, Britain is a cash-strapped uncompetitive backwater which has lost the knack of producing sporting heroes. All the odder then, that an English football club has […]
Tom Petruno For all the anguish on Wall Street in July over corporate earnings, here’s the tally so far of second-quarter reports: 57% were above expectations, 16% were as expected and just 27% were below expectations. So where’s the big profit problem that helped trigger the stock market’s slump last month? That’s what Wall Street’s […]
Police failed to heed warnings which could have prevented the Cape Town vigilante killing of an alleged gang leader, said the former head of a watchdog group overseeing investigations into police corruption. As war psychosis simmering in the Cape Flats threatens to erupt into full-scale war, criminologist Wilfred SchSrf said the police had been aware […]
Allegations of secrecy have been levelled against Radio Highveld’s favoured bidder. Barbara Ludman reports THE multimillion-rand fight for ownership of Radio Highveld Stereo has moved from merely monetary issues to questions of ideology. With Highveld licence hearings scheduled for the first week in September, the second-highest bidder, Worldwide Consortium, has accused the frontrunner of keeping […]