Chris McGreal in Kigali RWANDA’s Parliament is demanding that the government arrest a prominent Hutu politician who has been appointed as a regional governor despite his inclusion on the administration’s own list of men wanted for the 1994 genocide of Tutsis. Boniface Rucagu is number 120 on the list of about 2 000 people who […]
Funding shortfalls in provincial education could derail more than just the new school curriculum, reports Ann Eveleth THE Minister of Finance, Trevor Manuel, walked into a meeting last Friday with little good news for the provincial education and finance leaders who confronted him. They had hoped that Manuel could cover the spiralling cash shortfalls threatening […]
FRIDAY, 6.00PM: FORMER SA Breweries chief executive Meyer Kahn started work as a policeman on Friday. Kahn’s role as the most senior civilian in the police force will be to restructure the force, taking charge of personnel and financial matters while freeing up the police commissioner George Fivaz to concentrate on policing. His appointment, announced […]
Ann Eveleth A BIZARRE, long-running row split the management at South Africa’s main nuclear waste dump in the months leading up to the discovery of radioactive leaks at the site. Kappie Steyn, head of the Vaalputs site for 11 years, was pushed from his post last December after what his wife says was a six-year […]
Mukoni T Ratshitanga MANAGEMENT at the University of Zululand, facing a barrage of corruption allegations, has ordered its staff and students to shut up or produce evidence to back the claims. The administration, already rocked by revelations surrounding fake degrees and fake financial credits to students, issued what amounts to an ultimatum on the campus […]
A startling claim before the truth commission details plans by the security forces to bomb the ANC’s NEC. Chris Opperman reports A PLAN by the former government to blow up the leadership of the African National Congress in the 1980s was aborted amid fears that spies in the liberation movement would be killed in the […]
As South Africa demands an apology for the Nigerian foreign minister’s statement that Mandela is the black head of a white country, Guinness Ohazuruike urges action against the military dictatorship in Lagos THE hydra-headed problem of Nigeria will again arise when Commonwealth heads of states meet at their annual summit in Edinburgh in October. The […]
FRIDAY, 6.00PM: THE Portuguese government is in a dispute with the South African electricity parastatal Eskom over an 18-year-old agreement about funding the Cahora Basso power station project, parliament was told on Friday. The acting director-general of South Africa’s department of mineral and energy affairs, Dick Bakker, said South Africa loaned Portugal R35 million in […]
Rehana Rossouw and Marion Edmunds THE Middle Eastern country to which Denel is trying to sell arms worth R7-billion was publicly named in Cape Town last week – by Kader Asmal, the minister whose words were quoted by Denel in a successful high court bid to prevent the Mail & Guardian from identifying its client. […]
FRIDAY, 6.00PM: PSYCHOLOGIST Dr Micky Pistorius has provided police with a preliminary description of the Phoenix serial killer, wanted for at least 18 murders. The murderer is a Zulu man aged between 30 and 40 who is able to gain the confidence of women by offering them employment. He is probably not a wanted criminal. […]