Gaye Davis The fate of 453 former death-row prisoners remains unclear as politicians and legal experts wrestle with the dilemma of how best to deal with them. When the Constitutional Court abolished the death penalty two years ago, it ordered that prisoners sentenced to death remain in custody until their sentences were either set aside […]
Suzy bell: Bhangra guide to Durban A middle-aged man in a silk shimmery naartjie-orange suit, black T-shirt and gold chain holds his microphone like a lover to his chest. Then, dramatically, he breaks into song: “Hey you sexy baby! Hey you sexy baby!” Ramesh Hassan, “South Africa’s number one bhangra masala vocalist” welcomes you to […]
team To win in Formula One takes more than a pair of hot-shoe drivers. Without the right team manager, the best designer and the slickest pit crew, you will never make the podium. Which is why drivers are not the only ones commanding multi-million pound salaries these days. Alan Henry casts his eye around the […]
Ronald Suresh Roberts argues that those lawyers who subordinated their moral obligations to an apartheid legislature should be held accountable.
Mark Lamport-Stokes: Squash Scottish squash player Martin Heath, currently campaigning in this country for the first time, believes that the South African men’s game is – in sum – greater than its individual parts. He feels that the country’s top players, despite possessing the talent and fitness required in the professional arena, still have a […]
sea The South Africa Chamber for Agricultural Development in Africa (Sacada) should consider an addition to its name and logo: wildlife. Originally, the Freedom Front-affiliated group had made boosting Africa’s food security and food production its motto. But some of its people in Niassa salivate when describing the province’s abundant wildlife. It is only a […]
Andrew Worsdale: Cinema Film director Cedric Sundstrom is probably best known as the director of Cannon schlock during the tax-driven South African movie boom of the mid-1980s, having helmed titles like American Ninja III and IV. He candidly admits that ”I might be regarded by some people as a sell-out for going from making my […]
The charges have been dropped, but police believe they had a rape case – against three New Zealand rugby players, reports Carina le Grange A KwaZulu-Natal police investigator said on New Zealand television last week that he believed justice had not been done in the case involving the alleged rape of a Durban woman by […]
David Beresford A string of prosecutions is being prepared in connection with the spreading scandal over the ”can-ned” hunting of lion and other big game in Northern Province. The police Endangered Species Protection Unit and special investigators for the provincial government have opened 39 dossiers arising from the scandal. Another 90 cases are being investigated. […]
THURSDAY, 12.30PM: THE Congress of SA Trade Unions’ investment arm Kopano Ke Matla is putting in a joint bid with a Danish labour federation for state-owned Aventura Resorts, which is scheduled for privatisation this year. It is believed that another 11 parties are interested in bidding for the company, including Genbel Securities and another union […]