Archaic technology is hampering police efforts to catch the Cleveland serial killer, reports Wiseman Khuzwayo ARCHAIC computer systems have slowed down the identification of most of the victims of the Cleveland serial killer. And the lack of identification of the victims has hampered the search for the killer. The police have so far managed to […]

Basil Douglas has popped up in some unusual places, and now he has popped up to lead the `popcorn civics’, writes Gaye Davis BASIL DOUGLAS, the man behind the rates protests which convulsed Johannesburg’s coloured townships last week, leaving one person dead and 28 injured after clashes with police, has had a chequered political career. […]

FINE ART: Ivor Powell In the 1960s Norman Catherine was something like the heir apparent or maybe it was Brand-and- Revered-Raspberry to the throne of Fook Island. Fook Island, for those who don’t remember that whimsical nonesuch nonsense, was a diligently documented and solemnly certified place of the mind, invented and ruled with a rod […]

Well-known figures have been blamed for the waste of millions of rands by the National Co-ordinating Committee for the Return of Exiles, says a confidential report. Wiseman Khuzwayo reports A CONFIDENTIAL report on the disbanded National Co- ordinating Committee for the Return of Exiles (NCCR) charges that the organisation was dogged by fraud and corruption […]

Chris Louw THE squabbles that marred the negotiation process are repeating themselves in the cabinet — and again Inkatha Freedom Party leader Mangosuthu Buthelezi is at centre stage, shadowed by his Italian/American adviser, Dr Mario Ambrosini. Buthelezi lost a battle to control next year’s local government elections when he left Wednesday’s cabinet meeting as the […]

In his first interview since the royal shake-up, Prince Mcwayizeni Zulu talks to Ann Eveleth THERE was an emotive ritual outside King Goodwill Zwelithini’s palace gates last Tuesday to mark his rapprochement with Senior Prince Mcwayizeni Zulu. “In accordance with tradition, we each stood outside the palace gates and a man poured fire ash into […]

Two South Africans set off this week in the gruelling eight-month, 27 000-mile BOC Challenge SAILING: Jonathan Spencer Jones AFTER months — and in some cases, years — of preparation, the fourth BOC Challenge single-handed around the world race got under way in Charleston, USA, last weekend with a rousing sendoff from some 2 000 […]

Weekly Mail Reporter THE abortion debate looks set to start all over again with the appointment this month of a parliamentary committee that is likely to have the pro-choice and anti-abortion lobbies fighting it out. The 26-member committee, which will hear submissions from the public before recommending legislation to the cabinet, represents a wide spectrum […]

Justin Pearce WHEN Sister Clara Williams asked two unauthorised visitors to leave the hospital ward, they pressed a knife against her stomach. Dr Hennie Steenkamp has been assaulted four times while treating injured patients. And hospital volunteer Simon Jacobs was stabbed with a pair of scissors when he tried to stop a fight between two […]