A new book alleges Kerzner made a deal with the NP to evade extradition to the Transkei to face bribery charges, write Madeleine Wackernagel and Mungo Soggot Pik Botha has denied sensational allegations that the National Party government agreed to shield the gambling supremo, Sol Kerzner, from bribery charges in the Transkei in return for […]

Wonder Hlongwa The Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) has been forced to sack or discipline about 20 staff members in the last year for offences ranging from poor work performance and drunkenness to fraud and rape. Equipment valued at thousands of rand, including cars, computers and cellphones, has been stolen or abused in this time […]

Marion Edmunds South Africa’s jet-setting MPs may find their frequent flights cancelled if they do not work harder in Parliament. African National Congress chief whip Max Sisulu is to crack his whip with a new vehemence, after introducing strict disciplinary measures for slack ANC MPs in caucus this week. Sisulu says they could be fined […]

Ross Jennings of the Community Agency for Social Enquiry (Case) presented a document at last weekend’s Gauteng youth summit which suggests that young people are still not responsible enough in their sexual encounters. It is based on Case and Central Statistical Services research from 1993, 1995 and 1996 that shows 73% of the province’s youth […]

leader Gustav Thiel A new messiah has emerged in the faltering attempt to launch an umbrella movement to protect the rights of the Afrikaner community: former Progressive Federal Party MP Frederik van Zyl Slabbert. A leading instigator of the initiative, Nasionale Pers non-executive chair Ton Vosloo, said this week that leading Afrikaners “simply do not […]

Chris Gordon and Peta Thornycroft Both Unita, Angola’s rebels, and the ruling MPLA government say the United Nations sanctions imposed on Unita this week will not spark off a new war. Speaking from New York, Unita’s ambassador to the UN Jaime Vilasanta, putting a brave face on the UN move, said the sanctions would change […]

The African National Congress has made significant compromises to gain political power, argues Dale T McKinley in his new book For three decades the dominant theoretical basis for the African National Congress’s liberation struggle had been cast within the necessity for the revolutionary seizure of power. Whether applied to the smashing of apartheid and the […]

The centuries-old coelacanth may soon come to the end of its life, writes Ellen Bartlett It probably wasn’t pleasant being foreign minister of a pariah state like South Africa, but no doubt one of the minor perks of Pik Botha’s job in the bad old days was getting presents from the few heads of state […]

Bantu Holomisa challenges Nelson Mandela’s assertions in Edinburgh this week that he has no list of ANC spies. Wally Mbhele reports President Nelson Mandela has on more than one occasion reprimanded executive members of the African National Congress, saying he has their files and knows who among them are spies. This dramatic allegation was made […]