Andrew Muchineripi : Soccer After the carefully selected, diplomatically correct words of Clive Barker, new Bafana Bafana coach Jomo Sono has hit the scene like a bolt of lightning from the blue. Sono resembles those gunslingers we worshipped as children at the bioscope. He walks with the same self-belief and is ready to let rip […]

Marion Edmunds The mystery surrounding Cape Town gardener Bennet Sibaya’s relationship with the Truth and Reconciliation Commission deepened this week, after he denied providing commission investigators with evidence that he was involved in police “dirty tricks” operations. Sibaya has refuted suggestions, made in a Sunday newspaper, that he told the commission he had been a […]

The tussle between the IBA and Voice of Soweto could end in a bruising court battle, write Ferial Haffajee and Maria McCloy The Voice of Soweto radio station will seek an interdict to prevent the Independent Broadcasting Authority (IBA) from hauling it off the air in ten days’ time. “The IBA has given us no […]

Dan Atkinson and Larry Elliott When the Iraqi tanks of Saddam Hussein rumbled into Kuwait in August 1990, economic pundits declared that the oil price could hit $60 a barrel within months. Early this week, a barrel of Brent crude was changing hands at less than $16. It was not only oil that was tipped […]

Sechaba ka’Nkosi Newly elected African National Congress secretary general Kgalema Mothlante had a hectic first week at the party’s Shell House headquarters, drafting its anniversary statement and preparing the ground for talks with other political organisations. His orientation included daily two-hour meetings with his predecessor Cheryl Carolus, and a session with his new boss, ANC […]

Wonder Hlongwa and Mungo Soggot President Nelson Mandela overruled truth commission legislation guidelines to ensure former state president PW Botha’s legal team was paid almost double the going rate for representing a potential witness. This week Minister of Justice Dullah Omar – who had been part of the negotiations on the massive bill – said […]

Mukoni T Ratshitanga The 35 000-strong South African Agricultural Plantation and Allied Workers’ Union, which represents farm workers, will meet its Mozambican counterpart later this month to deal with the exploitation of alien labour in South Africa. The union’s general secretary, Dickson Motha, this week said they aim “to develop a common strategy on how […]

police Andy Duffy The top detective brought in amid huge fanfare late last year to revive crime- fighting efforts on the troubled Cape Flats spent just six weeks in Cape Town before returning to Gauteng. Police management deployed Director Ivor Human to the Western Cape last October to lead investigations into the spiralling violence, and […]

FRIDAY, 4.30PM: SRI Lankan spinning pair Muttiah Murilitharan and Jayanatha Silva on Friday ripped apart the Zimbabwe batting in the first Test, keeping the visitors to a paltry 140 runs. This leaves the Zimbabweans with a deficit total of 329 runs. The woes of the Zimbabweans did not end, however, and at the close of […]