Dror Eyal: The festival circuit It would be easy to dismiss Oppikoppi as the valley of drunken louts; to concentrate on an estranged man committing suicide; on the drunkenness, debauchery and the sexual harassment. But in any society of 15 000 odd people, including those whosnuck in under duvets in the boot, there will be […]
Sechaba ka’Nkosi The Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) wants to target certain companies for a pilot project where union officials would sit on the board to allow co- determination and decision-making. The suggestion is made in the report by the September Commission, appointed to consider new strategies for the union movement. Cosatu says […]
THURSDAY, 5.30PM AUDITOR-General Henri Kluever on Thursday responded to allegations by Mineral and Energy Affairs Minister Penuell Maduna that he had dishonestly accounted for R170-million missing from the Strategic Fuel Fund by saying his office’s handling of the SFF accounts was honest and above board. “I have been in the civil service all my life […]
Francis Murape Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe’s recent land offer to ex-combatants may be a little too late. The liberation war veterans’ protests have assumed, not only anti- corruption, but anti-government overtones as well. About 500 of the former fighters, demanding payments from the corruption-riddled War Victims Compensation Fund, on Monday drowned Mugabe’s speech at the […]
The good ship SS Graigaur slipped its moorings and set sail from the State Theatre last week, carrying on board a youthful, starry-eyed writer called Athol fugard, en route to a date with artistic destiny. Also on board, Jennifer Steyn, as his young mother-cum-muse, and Owen Sejake as the burly Kenyan donkeyman. The autobiographical voyage […]
jailed Gaye Davis and Gustav Thiel Three-year old Patronda Kelebogile Morwe was found dead in a zinc bath in her home in Ramatlabama Village near Mafikeng in the North West Province this month. She had been raped and strangled. A boy aged 13 has been arrested. A fortnight ago on the Cape Flats in Cape […]
Robert Kirby : Loose cannon The residual loyalty the British royal family continues to inspire – even at this far end of their old Empire – is often quite bewildering. One would have thought that, by the end of the 20th century, the stubborn parasitical existence of any royal houses anywhere would be tolerated only […]
Amid all the excitement surrounding the likes of the Clive Derby-Lewis amnesty hearings and arguments over FW de Klerk’s role in apartheid-era atrocities there have been incidents relating to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission which are particularly disturbing because they cast light not on yesterday’s men, but those who carry responsibility for our tomorrows. One […]
PHOENIX SUSPECT ARRESTED POLICE have arrested a suspect beleived to be the Phoenix Starangler, who has raped and murdered at least 19 women in Phoenix near Durban. The suspect was arrested during a raid on a shack in the Besters shantytown near Phoenix. The suspect, a Zulu-speaking man between the ages of 30 and 40 […]
Swapna Prabhakaran Psst … wanna buy a Mirage aircraft or a navy tugboat? Vast quantities of South African National Defence Force (SANDF) ammunition, vehicles, aircraft and other matriel are to be disposed of – most by public auction and tender. A SANDF representative said the equipment was no longer needed as it was outdated, beyond […]