Justin Pearce While Dr Allan Boesak was making headlines daily in South Africa with allegations of corruption, a United States corporation was blissfully unaware that its $50 000 donation to the Foundation for Peace and Justice (FPJ) was never used for the purposes for which it was intended. This week Kerry Traubert, a representative of […]

President Nelson Mandela is considering the early release of former Cabinet minister Pietie du Plessis. It would be a mistake for him to grant it.

Michael McMurray THE Constitutional Court has been asked to rule on a controversial dagga law which automatically turns dope smokers into dope dealers if they’re found with more than a handful of the weed. At stake is the validity of the so-called “suspicion” or “presumption” clause in the Drug and Drug Trafficking Act of 1992. […]

Rehana Rossouw DRUG addicts and dirty needles go together like love and marriage used to in the old lyrics but, in Cape Town, where drugs are smoked rather than mainlined, a zealous doctor is using (clean) needles to cure addicts of their curse. In his comfortable Rondebosch acupuncture clinic, Dr Won H Lee launches passionately […]

and continued: “‘Tis none of your business, dear friend, for the gentleman of Caucasian extraction possesses a palm that is two times your visage. Glasses ar expensive …” In revolutionary zeal, I had neglected to look at the size of the offending whitey and thought onl’ of my self- righteous blackness and how I could […]

# Nature’s own cull more efficient Daphne Sheldrick THERE is mounting public awareness of the nature of elephants. That they are sentient, caring beings comparable emotionally to ourselves is generally accepted. Parallel to humankind in development and lifespan, they have a strong sense of family and are concious of death, and they have a memory […]

Rehana Rossouw Do-it-yourself policing is spreading across the Cape Peninsula as communities organise themselves to do the tasks their understaffed police stations cannot. The Mitchell’s Plain Neighbourhood Watch has 10 units in the sprawling dormitory town, with membership currently at 4 000 and climbing steadily. Its 400 active members patrol neighbourhoods in Mitchell’s Plain every […]

shareholders is a source of disagreement among JSE=20 analysts, reports Jacques Magliolo The reorganisation and unbundling of Johannesburg=20 Consolidated Investments (JCI), which comes into effect on=20 Monday with the splitting of JCI into three new companies,=20 has aroused scepticism among Johannesburg Stock Exchange=20 From=20next week shareholders will own three JCI shares=20 instead of only one. […]

Prisoners go to court to prevent unauthorised HIV testing, reports Justin Pearce Prisoner Lucas Benny Gae didn’t know he was being tested for HIV. Nor did he know the result of the test until he was told to pack his belongings and move to the A Section of the prison: the single cells which, according […]