Maria McCloy: Miss Soweto 1997 The contestants were the side-show at Miss Soweto: gospel singers Rebecca Malope and Pure Magic, the bass and beats of Ma willies and the freestyle dancing of Mashamplane were the main attractions last Friday at Johannesburg’s Standard Bank Arena. People wandered in and out to buy food and ice-lolly vendors […]
General Paul Kagame tells Mahmood Mamdani that he had to reveal the truth about his army’s involvement in the overthrow of Mobutu Sese Seko The day before I took the Air Rwanda flight from Entebbe to Kigali on July 11, both major dailies in Kampala had carried reports of The Washington Post interview with Rwandan […]
A letter of apology to the Mpumalanga premier has turned out to be nothing of the sort, reports Ferial Haffajee After receiving a much-publicised apology, African National Congress Premier Mathews Phosa dropped a threatened defamation action against a fellow veteran who had described being tortured and raped by colleagues in exile. But it now turns […]
Mungo Soggot Advocates at the Johannesburg Bar are smarting after finding themselves at the receiving end of hefty legal fees. The ruling council of South Africa’s biggest Bar has decided to charge its advocate members for an R850 000 high court application to expel one of their colleagues over tax irregularities. The costly high court […]
Education’s poor relations need a massive financial boost, writes Ann Eveleth The government will have to find an extra R3-billion a year over the next decade to end educational backlogs and equalise conditions between poor and rich schools, according to an economic adviser to the national Department of Education. Luis Crouch said the department still […]
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Gaye Davis spoke to Rhoda Kadalie about the frustrations which forced her to resign from the Human Rights Commission.
FRIDAY, 5.00PM TREVOR TUTU, the son of truth commission chairman Archbishop Desmond Tutu, was on Friday arrested by members of the Soweto Fraud Unit at his home in Randburg north of Johannesburg. Police said Tutu was arrested on the strength of an arrest warrant issued against him for contempt of court arising from his failure […]
Chris McGreal on the Belgian who embraced Rwanda’s extremists Georges Ruggiu is a mystery even to those who savoured his excited, foreign accent invoking Robespierre to keep the blood flowing across Rwanda. The 37-year-old Belgian is the only non-Rwandan arrested by the International Tribunal for complicity in the 1994 genocide of hundreds of thousands of […]
Steve Morris Rugby It is not beyond the constraints of fair comment to say that the game of rugby in this country has gone beyond crisis point. Examine, if you will, some of the less than salutary instances that make sad fact of what would have been regarded as fiction just two years ago when […]