South Africans are stampeding to join the censor board, reports Mungo Soggot. And our new censorship law may be as restrictive as the old one SOUTH AFRICANS are stamping to become censors, with more than 850 nominees competing for a place on the new censor board which is due to start work in September. In […]
POWER, said Henry Kissinger, is the ultimate aphrodisiac. If that is true, the ideal job for a sex maniac is presumably that of censor, combining as it does the daily stimulus of porn-on-tap with the excitement of exercising their prerogative in deciding what the rest of the country’s 37-million (or is it 42-million?) citizens will […]
Comment: Ronald Suresh Roberts THE apartheid state killed 68 political prisoners in police detention, while apartheid’s mines killed 69 000 people this century. Yet the Truth and Reconciliation Commission is largely ignoring apartheid business. By law, the commission must investigate ”gross violations of human rights”, including ”severe ill treatment” that was ”part of a systematic […]
FRIDAY, 5.30PM The treasury under the former National Party government made more than R50-million in taxpayer’s money available to South Africa’s State Security Council in 1984 to fund its first five-year plan to undertake covert operations, the Eastern Cape’s Daily Dispatch reported on Friday. A list of the covert operations is contained in a secret […]
FRIDAY, 10.30AM JUSTICE Minister Dullah Omar has rejected claims published on Thursday in Afrikaans daily Beeld that the government meddled in the investigation into allegations against Dr Allan Boesak. Said Omar: ”There does not appear to be any factual basis for even suggesting interference in investigationas by anyone. The best placed are the Office for […]
Hazel Friedman CENSORSHIP boards la apartheid might be out of fashion at the SABC, but they are making a confusing comeback in the form of ”acceptance committees” on each of the corporation’s television channels. In the absence of an overall policy, the rules differ from channel to channel, and no one knows for certain what […]
THURSDAY, 10.00AM: FIVE British Lions players are injured and have been ruled out of the third rugby Test match against South Africa at Ellis Park stadium on Saturday. During the second Test, winger Alan Tait and hooker Keith Wood suffered groin injuries and Eric Miller strained his thigh muscle. Scrumhalf Kyran Bracken and prop Jason […]
TUESDAY, 5.30PM The two Pretoria University researchers who appeared before a university disciplinary hearing on Thursday were found guilty of misconduct. Professor Dirk du Plessis and Dr Callie Landauer were sternly reprimanded for continuing their research into the drug Virodene P058 without the permission of the university’s ethics committee, the university said. TUESDAY, 4.30PM TWO […]
WEDNESDAY, 4.00PM JOINT crime prevention action by police and the army have succeeded in bringing down Gauteng’s murder rate by 11%, robberies by 10% and bank robberies by 26%, safety and security MEC Jessie Duarte said on Thursday. “The government in Gauteng can now announce that it is indeed increasingly dealing much more effectively with […]
THURSDAY, 4.00PM THE Gauteng provincial legislature on Thursday promulgated a new acvt enabling authorities to take harsh action to put an end to taxi violence, and the provincial government has already begun to implement stern measures against taxi operators involved in violence, according to Gauteng safety and security MEC Jessie Duarte. Duarte said the measures […]