Did the AWB kill Vickus Swanepoel because he was a traitor — or was he kill ed in a car crash? Stefaans BrUmmer reports FOR two years Martha Swanepoel kept quiet about the death of her husband, who she believes fell victim to an Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging (AWB) plot becaus e he “ratted” on the organisation […]
Philippa Garson PROFESSOR Njabulo Ndebele appears to be out of the race for one of the country ‘s top academic jobs — the post of Wits University vice-chancellor. Ndebele, a keen favourite among a broad spectrum of academics and students, ha s neither applied for the job nor accepted any nomination. If Ndebele remains out […]
Philippa Garson A small-time bus company owner claims he has been ruined by transport giant Pu tco for daring to compete with it. Sam Joga, owner of Jika Bus Services, has the police and Putco after his blood and a team of mineworkers and criminal lawyer Lawley Shein on his side. Joga claims he has […]
SOCCER: Michael Walker THE flow of money and talent into English football continued at bank-bursting speed this week with Middlesbrough’s breathtaking announcement that they had signed Fabrizio Ravanelli from Juventus for 7- million. It made the 27-year-old Italian international striker, who has signed a four-year contract for a reported 1,3-million per year, the fourth most […]
Jacquie Golding-Duffy The threatened strike in the clothing industry over wage increases will be disastrous for the already crippled sector, says labour analyst Gavin Brown. The industry is on its knees, having suffered from massive closures, resulting in about 20 000 job losses in the past five years, he says. With the industry in the […]
Drum is South Africa’s best-known black monthly magazine, famed overseas and locally. Now it’s going weekly, reports Jacquie Golding-Duffy IN September, after nearly five decades as a monthly, the country’s oldest black magazine — Drum — will be published weekly. National Magazines (NatMags) is changing its print schedule to bring Drum into line with its […]
Eddie Koch Foreign zoos are reluctant to buy lions captured in the Kruger National Park b ecause new research shows eight out of every 10 Kruger lions may be infected w ith the feline immunodeficiency virus (FIV), a viral agent similar in structur e to HIV but not transferable between human and cat species. Research […]
Foreign views, foreign standards, foreign players. Ruud Gullit has brought all three to English football, and everyone loves him for it SOCCER: Brian Alexander THE pundits got it wrong before the European Championship. When asked who would emerge as the stars of the tournament, they trotted out names like Suker, Kluivert, Zidane and Boban. But […]
Philippa Garson OVERSEAS donors are still investing in higher education, despite fears that the escalation of violent protest and crime on campuses would scare them off. The executive director of the Tertiary Education Fund of South Africa, Roy Jackson, said he would be “very surprised” if the campus turmoil “didn’t cause a great deal of […]
M&G Crime Correspondent Angella Johnson, who spent 10 years working on papers like The Guardian, London Times and Los Angeles Times, finds herself at loggerheads with the SAPS `Precision of communication is important, more important than ever, in our era of hair-trigger balances, when a false, or misunderstood word may create as much disaster as […]