A JOINT operation by the Federal Bureau of Investigation and local police is believed to have arrested in Cape Town a number of suspects in in connection with last year’s blasts at US embassies in Nairobi and the Tanzanian capital, Dar es Salaam, which killed 116 people and injured 4 274 others. The Cape Times […]
UMTATA police are investigating what the ANC believes to be a string of politically motivated shootings and arson incidents at the Ngangelizwe homes of three prominent community activists. The men, Umtata deputy mayor Nobantu Madyibi, councillor and council land and legal committee chairman Thami Mayaba, and wheelchair-bound SACP executive member and ex-councillor Zeph Semane have […]
Destitution, soccer and violence are the themes of this year’s Young Directors’ Festival, writes Thebe Mabanga Picture this: three guys are employed as delivery truck attendants. They watch the world go by from the back of a Coca-Cola truck. Their favourite destination is the Sandton Health & Racquet Club, for here, while the yuppies are […]
Robert Kirby Channel Vision With the Rugby World Cup under way, it’s fairly certain where most television sets will be pointing these next six weeks. At this stage all that deserves comment is the lumbering opening ceremony of the tournament. Wales should hang its national head in shame – followed by the public lopping-off of […]
Robert McBride’s long-awaited testimony on the Magoo’s bar bombing started this week. Paul Kirk reports This week Robert McBride kicked off his amnesty application with an almost poetic explanation of why he decided to embark on the armed struggle – and then listed more than 10 bombing incidents which apartheid- era security police never even […]
Andy Capostagno in Edinburgh Rugby World Cup As it turns out we worried needlessly. A week into the fourth World Cup only England are sitting prettier than South Africa. Moreover, the Springboks got the kind of genuine workout against Scotland that no training camp can ever replicate: behind after an hour, convincing winners after 80 […]
Donna Block Gold’s fortunes have risen like a phoenix out of the ashes as the price of the precious metal soared over $330 per ounce this week – a price that hasn’t been seen for two years. Bullion prices have risen dramatically since last week after 15 European central banks pledged to limit annual gold […]
Andrew Muchineripi Soccer There is nothing quite like competition to improve standards, and a lack of it may explain the rather pedestrian performance of the SABC when it comes to soccer. SABC TV does some things well, others adequately and others extremely poorly, and it was the mixed coverage of the Afro- Asian Nations Cup […]
drug smuggling Fiona Macleod Controversial wildlife dealer Riccardo Ghiazza is a wanted man in Italy. According to Interpol, Ghiazza is on the run from a six-month jail sentence for drug smuggling. He was also under police investigation for “criminal conspiracy and drug violations” in the mid- to late 1980s. The South African Department of Home […]
PAUL KIRK, Johannesburg | Friday 1.30pm SOUTH Africa may be facing facing the worst outbreak of malaria since 1932 after carrier mosquitos lived through the long hot winter. Making the possibility of an epidemic more probable is the fact that the malaria parasite is now resistant to many of the drugs used to treat it. […]