South Africans may never know the truth if the Promotion of National Unity and Reconciliation Bill goes through, argues Paul van Zyl THE recent furore over the clandestine attempt to grant amnesty to 3 500 members of the security forces (including Adriaan Vlok, Magnus Malan and Johan van der Merwe) has strengthened calls for the […]

Police have reacted to the amnesty issue with a threat to release damaging information on cabinet members an politicians reports Gaye Davis POLICE have put a loaded gun to the head of the government of national unity (GNU), threatening to release evidence linking cabinet ministers and politicians in the National Party, ANC and other parties […]

Weekly Mail Reporter DEADLINES for voters to register for the October municipal elections are so tight that polls may be very low if same-day registration is not allowed. This is the call from Project Vote, a democracy education organisation which this week released findings of pioneering research into voter attitudes to the forthcoming elections. The […]

CRICKET: Jon Swift THE enduring memory of this summer’s cricket will be an incident on the boundary ropes rather than any of the truly exciting things which happened out in the middle. It was the sight of Fanie de Villiers in the middle of the Kingsmead Test following the umpires and their lightmeters off the […]

Native tongue Bafana Khumalo I BOUGHT a book this week. Yeah, I did. You probably think that it is a trite observation on my part, but I will have you know that it was a watershed moment for me. It was the first time in a very long time that I had bought a book […]

TS Monk, son of the great jazz pianist, is visiting South Africa. He spoke to Gwen Ansell TS MONK is a drummer, but he doesn’t see that as his main skill. “I have a talent for explaining what jazz is about — to anyone. I’m a doorway into jazz.” Monk, fortysomething son of late legendary […]

OPERA: Peter Klatzow VERDI’S Nabucco (Cape Opera Festival) may not be one of his most popular masterpieces, but it offers plenty of evidence of the mastery which was to follow in Rigoletto and La Traviata. Already present is his astonishing ability to weave disparate characters and melodic lines together into a cohesive ensemble. As is […]

Peter Mokaba has denied the accusations levelled against him and has blamed the director of the NTF for the financial crisis, writes Mduduzi ka Harvey AS the National Tourism Forum (NTF) chaired by former ANC youth leader Peter Mokaba heads deeper into financial crisis, divisions have been drawn in the upper echelons, with two factions […]

Farouk Chothia THERE have been seven attacks on prominent Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) members involved in peace initiatives with the ANC since last September. The Human Rights Committee (HRC) suspects these attacks are being carried out by hardliners who oppose the peace initiatives of their moderate colleagues. But IFP senator Philip Powell vehemently denied this. […]

MUCH fuss was made in the last week over the crisis in the government of national unity and FW de Klerk’s threats to abandon the ship. But there was never a real crisis. For one thing, De Klerk’s threats were hollow. It was a tantrum by someone who is still coming to terms with the […]