The Mark Gevisser Profile Why, I asked Minister of Justice Dullah Omar, did he think that, of all the issues before our first Government of National Unity, the one that nearly brought the whole damn house tumbling down was his Truth and Reconciliation Bill? “All of us involved in this bill,” he replied with those […]
Iden Wetherall in Harare When Zimbabwe’s senior public prosecutor made it clear on Monday that the police had insufficient evidence to proceed with defamation charges against those at the helm of the contry’s leading independent newspaper, and that arrests and charges were in any case inappropriate procedures in such a case, a telephone call from […]
With the opening match against the formidable Australians=20 less than a week away, the South=20 African team is buckling down to the task ahead RUGBY: Jon Swift IT is ironic that a game which was for so long considered a=20 symbol of the repression of the aspirations of this=20 country’s citizens should have assumed such […]
Jowie Mwiinga in Lusaka Senior drug enforcement officer Mwamba Makasa was driving into his yard one Sunday two months ago when a gang of four men shot and wounded him. The Drug Enforcement Commission in Zambia reacted to the daring daylight ambush by declaring an all-out war, dubbed “Operation No Return”, against Zambia’s drug dealers, […]
The Department of State Expenditure is considering using=20 hi-tech methods to get to grips with the tricky task of=20 transforming its almost exclusively white male staff to=20 something more representative of all South Africans. Director General Hannes Smit this week told the=20 parliamentary finance committee that he had been unable to=20 fill vacancies in his […]
Allied Electronics Corporation (Altron) produced startling=20 results for the year to end-February, causing its share=20 price to reach a high of 1 000 cents — well up on last=20 year’s 700 cents a share. Since January 1993 the electronics sector has performed=20 abysmally. Now Altron’s results herald the return to=20 prominence of a sector which […]
GOLF: Jon Swift IT IS well worth contemplating that the victory Ernie Els=20 racked up in the Byron Nelson Classic over the testing TPC=20 layout at Four Seasons in Irving is as important a=20 benchmark in the budding career of the lanky South African=20 as was his win in the US Open.=20 For, in scooping […]
And then there were Nine … Malu van Leeuwen spoke to four=20 alternative funksters creating a stir in Cape Town THE first time I met Nine, they dubbed their sound gham- rock, or, as one of their fans put it, “Cape Malay=20 alternative funk”. While drinking the pub dry, all four of=20 Nine expanded on […]
SOCCER: Gerald Combrinck AGAINST all odds, league champions Orlando Pirates survived=20 a psychological war and “dirty tricks” campaign mounted=20 against them in their trip to Nigeria two weeks ago.=20 So it would be fair to say the Pirates have every right to=20 make life difficult for their opponents, BCC Lions, when=20 the two clubs meet […]
Sheena Duncan THE Black Sash is not disbanding, as Business Day posters proclaimed this week. We are alive and well and forty years old, celebrating our birthday. We will be continuing our work in our restructured form as the Black Sash Trust. The Black Sash was formed in 1955 as the Women’s Defence of the […]