New evidence linking an alleged murderer to the NIA could damage South Africa’s post-apartheid intelligence services Paul Kirk and Jaspreet Kindra One of Richmond strongman Sifiso Nkabinde’s alleged assassins, who turned to become the prosecution’s star witness, has been in the pay of the National Intelligence Agency (NIA) and was in possession of sophisticated NIA […]
WHAT’S NEW What is “the most dramatic and significant roll out of desktop technology since [the] first PC “? According to IBM, it’s the new NetVista family of Internet-ready PCs with flat-panel screens, designed for e-business use. In fact, IBM is following Toshiba, Gateway and others in the move to “legacy- free” PC designs, which […]
Iden Wetherell A senior minister in court on corruption charges, a president going for broke in an electoral contest he could well lose, the rule of law openly flouted and the country’s economy going down the tubes. It’s another week in Zimbabwe! Only recently dismissed as pedestrian and predictable, the pace of events north of […]
David Beresford ANOTHER COUNTRY My general incompetence when it comes to the purchase of motor cars is well-known to those who know me. The last I purchased from a Bulgarian … but I will go no further, out of respect for the spirit of the Constitution. Then there was the VW Golf which I had […]
Anthony Sampson Nelson Mandela has reacted angrily to a claim that he was recruited as an “agent of influence” by British intelligence and that he visited MI6 in Britain to thank it for its help in foiling assassination attempts. “I never visited the headquarters of any intelligence service,” he said on Wednesday. The allegations were […]
Sarah Boseley BODY LANGUAGE Some things in life are immutable. There is a rhythm to the seasons, night follows day, tides ebb and flood, and a woman’s body goes through a menstrual cycle every 28 days or so until the menopause sets in. That is the way it has always been and we assume it […]
M&G reporters A group of American private investors on Monday made a last minute attempt to rescue the $5-billion satellite telephone service Iridium, which was forced into liquidation last Friday. Iridium, which has United States electronic giant Motorola as a shareholder and backer, was set a deadline of last Friday by the court to attract […]
after trial A victim of police torture was assassinated soon after his attackers were convicted Cheryl Goodenough Hours after a rural KwaZulu-Natal court found that former Impendle resident Mfaniseni Radebe had been viciously assaulted in 1997 – an electric current from a battery had been sent through clamps attached under his arms and on to […]
Two men are gunned down and the killer disappears. Thirty years later one cop becomes obsessed with the case and finally tracks him down Philip Gourevitch On November 15 1944, an army deserter named Frank Gilbert Koehler was arrested for burglary in New York City. Frankie, as he liked to be called, was 15, so […]
Food’s got to be fun, it’s got to be tasty – but it doesn’t have to be cooked by Jamie Oliver Charlotte Raven Jamie Oliver is a phenomenon. His programme, The Naked Chef, is the unexpected hit of the moment and his status as a Nineties icon has been confirmed by everyone, from the critics […]