Justin Pearce Right-wing hunger striker Willem Ratte ended his hunger strike on Thursday, being granted R1 000 bail pending a supreme court appeal against his five-year sentence. Earlier Ratte had said he was opposed to bail since he rejected the judicial system that sentenced him, but would abide by the decision of “the volk”. His […]
Stefaans BrUmmer TRANSVAAL Attorney General Jan D’Oliveira will go ahead with plans to charge some of the 22 policemen who approached the Truth and Reconciliation Commission this week, saying their offer to co- operate with the truth body may “well be” an attempt to pre-empt prosecution. D’Oliveira confirmed there was a “significant overlap” between the […]
A new reef may alter the economics of platinum mining in South Africa, reports Bronwen Jones FOUR Chinese geochemists, visiting their South African partners in a platinum exploration joint venture, have found evidence of a significant new platinum reef close to the surface. In an exclusive interview, project manager Yao Wensheng said: “The co-operation between […]
Kathy Evans Osama Bin Ladin, who organised thousands of Arab volunteers in the Afghan jihad and has been linked to dozens of terrorist incidents, is homeless after being forced to leave his haven in Sudan. He had been living there for the past three years with his former mojahedin fighters. According to his spokesman in […]
Stefaans BrUmmer JAY Naidoo is embroiled in his first major controversy as post, telecommunications and broadcasting minister after he made “secret” eleventh-hour changes to the Telecommunications Bill accepted by Cabinet last week. Stakeholders accuse him of reneging on consensus painstakingly built over more than a year by his predecessor, Pallo Jordan. The version of the […]
Ann Eveleth INKATHA Freedom Party (IFP) leader Mangosuthu Buthelezi strongly hinted this week that his party would quit the Government of National Unity in the next few weeks, leaving the African National Congress to rule South Africa alone in the run-up to the 1999 elections. Buthelezi told the Mail & Guardian he would support a […]
The Constitutional Court must heed the dangers involved in giving corporations the same rights as individuals, argues American consumer advocate Ralph Nader SOUTH Africans should be aware that a key provision of the new Constitution risks entrenching a new form of power abuse in the country: autocratic rule by big corporations. The new Constitution establishes […]
There were some stutters in Tuesday’s match, but there were signs that the new Springbok team can live up to South Africa’s world champions status RUGBY: Jon Swift ANDRE MARKGRAAFF, the man charged with shaping the South African rugby side, was at some pains to dispel any idea of the South African XV playing festival […]
Hazel Friedman `Love sandwiches” are among the sizzling “snacks” being sampled in Biodanza, a series of caress sessions being held at a martial arts centre in Parkhurst and the latest feel-good fad to hit South Africa. Biodanza’s devotees describe it as “dances with passion and vitality” and a means of getting in touch with the […]
Simon Segal THE consensus forecast from 10 of South Africa’s major economic units is that gross domestic product (gdp) growth is still short of what is required to absorb people coming on to the labour market — and that it will slow next year. Sluggish and slowing growth will result in lower interest rates but […]