FRIDAY, 4.30PM A TEENAGER was mauled by Kruger National Park lions on Wednesday night, the fifth person to be killed by lions in the park in the past week. Adam Chauke, 18, was one of 11 Mozambicans who attempted to enter South Africa illegally by walking through the park. They were scattered by a herd […]
The bottle of brown sludge handed to Dr Linda Makwatini, the adviser to Minister of Mineral and Energy Affairs Penuell Maduna, in Parliament earlier this month went almost unnoticed. It came from a mining town and was brought to the centre of power by a range of environmental organisations. The contents were highly contaminated and […]
Chris Gordon WITH two weeks to go before the United Nations slaps crippling sanctions on Jonas Savimbi’s Unita movement, UN peace monitors, Savimbi and the Angolan government are openly warning the country should prepare for war. Diplomats in Luanda said in the last week that the peace process is on the edge and war is […]
Ann Eveleth THE Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s chief investigator in the Eastern Cape has quit amid allegations that his team failed to deliver any significant research on apartheid-era atrocities in the province. Loyiso Mpumlawana was suspended on full pay in April pending a disciplinary inquiry into claims that he had failed to manage the unit […]
Mukoni T Ratshitanga A ZIMBABWEAN woman was arrested three times within an hour in Johannesburg this week as an illegal immigrant – even though she was legally in the country. Roseanna T (39), who works in a hotel shop in Mutare, eastern Zimbabwe, says the first two times she was released after bribing the police; […]
Gangsterism and clan rivalry are only two of the factors contributing to the wave of crime which has struck a small area in the Eastern Cape, writes Craig Bishop WHEN 45-year-old truck driver Koko Syoko set off from Molteno in the north of the Eastern Cape last week, he had little idea of the precautions […]
FRIDAY, 6.00PM: SEVEN foreigners were lynched in Dakar, Senegal on Thursday, following hysteria over “penis shrinkers”. Locals believe that foreigners who make brief physical contact with them on the street have the power to shrink their penises. Bystanders then go after the alleged “sex stealers” and mercilessly beat them. One of the murder victims had […]
* Walter will not get a letter this week due to the unfortunate disappearance of Nelson’s briefcase in Smal Street, Johannesburg. We present this occasional column instead FOLLOWING is a cautionary tale for those seeking a modest weekend getaway in the Magaliesberg. There is a farm on the R24, in the shadow of cliffs where […]
THE story of how the state witnesses in the Eikenhof trial turned against the chief defence witness, Oupa Kulashe, is a tale of betrayal and deceit.
FRIDAY, 12.00NOON TRANSNET MD Sakkie Macozoma on Thursday delivered a tongue-lashing to Transport Minister Mac Maharaj, saying the minister’s recent statements on privatisation of the transport parastatal and its subsidiaries were reckless and could scupper the whole restructuring process. Maharaj this week made statements about the proposed sell-off equity stakes in Transnet loss-makers SA Airways […]