Amid all the excitement surrounding the likes of the Clive Derby-Lewis amnesty hearings and arguments over FW de Klerk’s role in apartheid-era atrocities there have been incidents relating to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission which are particularly disturbing because they cast light not on yesterday’s men, but those who carry responsibility for our tomorrows. One […]
PHOENIX SUSPECT ARRESTED POLICE have arrested a suspect beleived to be the Phoenix Starangler, who has raped and murdered at least 19 women in Phoenix near Durban. The suspect was arrested during a raid on a shack in the Besters shantytown near Phoenix. The suspect, a Zulu-speaking man between the ages of 30 and 40 […]
Swapna Prabhakaran Psst … wanna buy a Mirage aircraft or a navy tugboat? Vast quantities of South African National Defence Force (SANDF) ammunition, vehicles, aircraft and other matriel are to be disposed of – most by public auction and tender. A SANDF representative said the equipment was no longer needed as it was outdated, beyond […]
Steve Morris: Rugby The public ourpourings of support from the rugby tsars, besieged as they currently are in a winter palace of growing national discontent, for Springbok coach Carel du Plessis, have the distinctly hollow ring of those who protest too much. Du Plessis is under fire for a string of dubious decisions about the […]
FRIDAY, 12.30PM: OLYMPICS and World Championships athletes Penny Heyns, Llewellyn Herbert and Marius Corbert will lead the 144-strong South African Students Sports Union (Sassu) team to compete in the World Student Games in Sicily, Italy starting on Tuesday. The team has nine teams including footballers, swimmers and athletes. Meanwhile, Olympic silver medallist Hezekiel Sepeng might […]
FRIDAY, 11.30AM The finance ministry on Thursday signed a partnership deal with a consortium of local and international businesses for the re-engineering of the government pension fund. The Government Employees’ Pension Fund, SA’s largest, with 1,25-million members and annual pay-outs of R9-billion, has been running in deficit for years. Recent management changes have decreased the […]
FRIDAY, 11.00AM: GENCOR’s Impala Platinum has reported a 17% increase in atrtributable income to R205-million in the year to June following successful cost-control measures and increased revenues due to the rand’s weakness. Earnings per share were up to 330c from 282c, while the the dividend increased to 110c from 100c. The results were considerably better […]
FRIDAY, 12.30PM: SPRINGBOK rugby coach Carel du Plessis is likely to retain his job until the end of the year. No decision was taken on his future in the coaches meeting called by SA Rugby Football Union president Louis Luyt at Ellis Park on Thursday, but the plans set in motion reinforced his position. The […]
Julian Drew Soccer George Castador’s little establishment near the central market in Pointe Noire was really cooking the night before Congo played South Africa in April. A shebeen on top of one of the single-storey buildings surrounding the market, there was plenty of space to dance to what is one of the best record collections […]
FRIDAY, 4.00PM The investigation into the “canned” lion hunting industry has led to probes being instituted into 130 cases. The police Endangered Species Protection Unit and Northern Province special investigators have opened 39 dockets as a result of their investigations, and are probing another 90 cases. And, as investigations continue, evidence is being unearthed of […]