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 […]
Facing the first of four Tests against the fearsome All Blacks and with a long list of injuries, the Springbok coach is justified in feeling a trifle nervous, but there is some comfort for him as well RUGBY: Jon Swift THERE has always been something special about a meeting between South Africa and New Zealand […]
Artist Brett Murray brings a piece of Cape Town’s `generous cultural spirit’ to Johannesburg this weekend. He spoke to HAZEL FRIEDMAN THE boy with the golliwog hair and dangling earrings smiles impishly at the lens, his teeth and the whites of his eyes made more luminescent by the contrast with blackened, cherubic cheeks. This is […]
THEATRE: Hazel Friedman IF there’s one conclusion to be drawn from On My Birthday, Aubrey Sekhabi’s play about domestic violence, it is this: while noble causes and educational initiatives may go together like a horse and carriage, they can also make for pretty dodgy theatre. All too often, the well-intentioned playwright-cum- sociologist reduces life’s twists […]
Aspasia Karras In the year ending 1992/93, the parastatal that ran the nine state airports was operating at a considerable loss. Dirk Ackerman, the recently appointed managing director of the Airport Company formed in August 1993, is clear about the reason: “Traditional bureaucratic inefficiency.” Too many captains wanting to direct the ship resulted in three […]
Suspected Rwandan killers could be allowed to remain in South Africa indefinitely, reports Mungo Soggot THE Rwandan government is monitoring two war criminals who are living in South Africa, and it believes there could be more lurking among the many Rwandan refugees in this country. But the absence of an extradition treaty between South Africa […]