Gaye Davis THE Human Rights Committee has asked the Constitutional Court to allow members of the public to appear before it to give their views on the final Constitution, on grounds that much of what has emerged has come out of closed political party negotiations. The Constitutional Court has set aside the month of June […]
Arthur Goldstuck Give it to me straight: how many people really are on the Internet? How many people will get my marketing message and buy my product? That remains the single most vexing question about the potential of the Internet, at least when you get past the hype about pornography and security. If you still […]
arena? Jacquie Golding-Duffy Chairperson of the National Association of Model Agencies, Gaenor Becker says standard modelling rates range from anything between R200 an hour for a photographic shoot to R500 for every media in which that photograph is used. The money paid to Ricardo Adonis for his time was well below market-related prices, she said. […]
peace A new optimism has arisen out of arrests in politically related crimes on the South Coast, reports Ann Eveleth The work of the police Special Investigation Team probing political violence on the KwaZulu-Natal South Coast has brought relative peace to a region once soaked by the blood of internecine strife. Hailed as a “breakthrough” […]
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co-operate with truth body Mungo Soggot JOHN Lloyd, the former activist who gave evidence which led to the hanging of the 1964 station bomber John Harris and which prompted the British Labour Party to scupper his political career, has apologised “unreservedly” and agreed to co-operate with the truth commission. Fellow Armed Resistance Movement (ARM) member […]
Eddie Koch KwaZulu-Natal Attorney General Tim McNally will subpoena the Department of Military Intelligence to supply a vital batch of military documents which have gone missing from the top-secret collection implicating General Magnus Malan and other officers in a conspiracy to murder African National Congress supporters. Last week the AG handed a set of documents […]
The man at the centre of a black-white battle for Zimbabwe’s tobacco trade has links with a former CCB agent, reports Jan Raath The delicate perfume of freshly cured, silk- textured, golden tobacco leaf wafting from the sprawling tobacco auction floors in Harare is the setting for Zimbabwe’s latest race tangle. A bitter black-white war […]
Simon Segal The government has finally moved to smooth the path of foreign aid, after years of difficulties and frustrations encountered by foreign donors. It has closed the interdepartmental International Development Co-operation Committee chaired by Elty Links, who has been appointed South Africa’s ambassador to the European Union. Instead, all official development assistance now falls […]
Rehana Rossouw THE failure of some magistrates and members of the medical profession to assist victims of human rights abuses emerged as a theme in the Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s Western Cape hearings this week. The family of Looksmart Ngudle, a journalist and Umkhonto weSizwe operative who died in detention in September 1963, testified that […]