Evidence wa ka Ngobeni The National Coalition for Gay and Lesbian Equality has called for a commission of inquiry to probe allegations of illegal sex- change operations, medical torture and chemical castration performed by the South African Defence Force (SADF) on gay men and lesbians before 1994. The coalition, whose call for an inquiry is […]
Paul Kirk A Gauteng attorney has mysteriously vanished with tens of millions of rands he was supposedly helping to spirit out of the country. Johannesburg-based attorney Spyrodon Akritides is being investigated by police and the South African Reserve Bank on suspicion of having illegally ferreted up to R300-million out of the country, using fraudulent documentation. […]
Barry Streek Minister of Agriculture and Land Affairs Thoko Didiza wants provincial land MECs to consider taking advice from the Zimbabwean government on farming policy. Didiza convened a workshop of provincial MECs this week to discuss an offer of support from her Zimbabwean counterpart to help South Africans understand what is involved in helping to […]
Khadija Magardie The South African Law Commission has proposed a radi-cal shake-up of customary laws of inheritance to bring them in line with the Bill of Rights. The Draft Bill for the Amendment of the Customary Law of Succession proposes that women, under-age heirs and illegitimate children be allowed to inherit from a relative who […]
Ted Leggett In yet another move limiting the flow of information between the police and the public, Commissioner Jackie Selebi has announced a moratorium on the release of certain crime statistics and threatened to fire those police members who communicate with the media. While he initially denied the existence of a moratorium, Selebi now asserts […]
With crime being South Africa’s most pressing problem, corruption within the police raises serious concern Piers Pigou At a recent conference in Cape Town on crime and human rights, the former South African ambassador to The Netherlands, Carl Niehaus, pointed out that the issue of dealing with incarcerated juveniles had not moved forward significantly since […]
Barry Streek An extraordinary claim that Western intelligence agencies, in particular the CIA and MI6, were behind the earliest phases of the armed struggle against apartheid in South Africa, was published this week. The claim, printed in the latest edition of the investigative magazine Noseweek, suggests that the Western intelligence agencies funded the National Committee […]
innovations An altogether new kind of Internet service has been created by Hypersend, for those occasions when you need to get a top priority document – of large proportions – from A to B without the delays and security risks involved in sending it via e-mail. The service simply requires you and the receiver to […]
After many years in the football wilderness, Lamontville Golden Arrows have been promoted to the Premier Soccer League Merryman Kunene If Lamontville Golden Arrows’ ascendancy to the Premier Soccer League was a straight- forward issue of clinching the MTN First Division Coastal Stream crown, then staying in the company of the elite boys will require […]
weapons deal Director Keith Mokoape’s personal stake in this lucrative deal is the latest in a series of scandals surrounding South Africa’s arms procurement Ivor Powell A director of the South African defence parastatal Armscor and former head of African National Congress military intelligence is the head of a newly formed company that stands to […]