hearings Marianne Merten and Peter Robinson The interim report of the King commission into cricket match-fixing – to be submitted to the government this Friday – is widely expected to recommend disci- plinary hearings for suspended cricketers Herschelle Gibbs and Henry Williams, who admitted they agreed to underperform in a one-day match in India. The […]
Dot Keet crossfire South African trade negotiators must surely have learned from this country’s hard experiences with the European Union that trade negotiations have very little to do with the rhetoric of “partnership” and a lot to do with the ruthless promotion – and, where necessary, protection – of the interests of national and multinational […]
Neil Thomas taking stock The problem with anything popular or fashionable is the ineluctable allure of the unobtainable. As soon as you can’t have it, you want it even more. Offshore unit trust funds, at least those of the rand- denominated variety, have recently attained this Joycean status. The initial impulse, soon after South Africa’s […]
Peter Robinson cricket All things considered, South Africa could not have asked a great deal more of Shaun Pollock and his overhauled team than has been forthcoming in Sri Lanka over the past five to six weeks. The first post-Hansiegate tour has to be regarded as a success – not an entirely unqualified one perhaps, […]
When Evander Holyfield steps into the ring again this weekend he takes with him a love of God – and money Gavin Evans When Evander Holyfield was searching for Bible verses to spirit him towards Mike Tyson, it was, intriguingly, to the New Testament he turned. Skipping the bits about turning cheeks and loving neighbours, […]
you how I kill kaffirs’ A Free State court heard this week of the eight-hour ordeal of two Eskom workers at the hands of a local farmer Glenda Daniels The dusty clock in the court did not work, the skewed no-smoking sign – stuck on with Prestik – was upside down and the proceedings took […]
innovations You may or may not have heard of Echelon, but it has almost certainly heard of you. It’s a shadowy international intelligence-sharing network run by Western governments, in which they avoid legal restrictions on spying on their own systems by asking partner governments to do it for them. Duncan Campbell wrote a report for […]
army ‘deviants’ Paul Kirk Dr Aubrey Levin, the army psychiatrist who ran a bizarre programme to “cure” gay conscripts, has been linked to secretly – and illegally – testing drugs on homosexuals and other “deviants” in the South African Defence Force (SADF). Human rights lawyer Jenny Wild this week described Levin’s tests on conscripts at […]
Khadija Magardie The South African Communist Party has launched disciplinary proceedings against one of its senior members, freelance journalist Dale McKinley, for allegedly bringing the party and its alliance partners into disrepute. McKinley is set to be grilled on Friday August 11 for more than two hours by a panel made up of the top […]
Thebe Mabanga in your ear Radio’s contribution to the growth in club culture over the past decade has been immense. When one thinks of the late Ian Segola and Quincy Kekana at the then Radio Metro 576MW, as well as Auldrin Mokgotsi at Radio Bop 540MW, it is hard to believe how much the phenomenon […]