Bantu Holomisa challenges Nelson Mandela’s assertions in Edinburgh this week that he has no list of ANC spies. Wally Mbhele reports President Nelson Mandela has on more than one occasion reprimanded executive members of the African National Congress, saying he has their files and knows who among them are spies. This dramatic allegation was made […]

Wake-up call as HRC is alerted to 29 cases of alleged racism in schools, reports Mukoni T Ratshitanga South African schools are set for a major shake-up as the Human Rights Commission begins a nationwide investigation into racism in schools. The commission said last week it was investigating 29 cases of alleged racism in six […]

THURSDAY, 8.50AM: A TEN-man Bush Bucks held Orlando Pirates to a goalless draw at Umtata Stadium on Wednesday afternoon. Bucks lost striker Vincent Skhosana in the 41st minute when referee gave him an early shower after two bookable offences. Bucks goalkeeper Mark Andreson had a good game and frustrated the visitors with his acrobatic saves. […]

The wife of a death row survivor this week demanded that judges be compelled to appear before the truth commission to account for their actions. David Beresford reports Moments of high drama have become familiar to the proceedings of the truth commission. But there can have been few as memorable as a moment this week […]

Thirty-one years on, David Beresford meets the man who assassinated Verwoerd He is to be found sitting in an armchair on an enclosed verandah at Sterkfontein mental hospital outside Krugersdorp. Dressed in a maroon tracksuit and towelled slippers, he gazes past the eucalyptus trees across the hospital grounds. A pyjamad youth ambles across, his body […]

The dictatorial style of Mathews Phosa played a role in his being rejected by his own executive, reports Justin Arenstein Mpumalanga Premier Mathews Phosa didn’t jump off the election bandwagon – he was pushed by his own ANC provincial executive committee. The coup, with echoes of the unexpected power-shifts so common in central Africa, occurred […]

people Talk about a double whammy – a stock-market crash on top of El Nio. Just what South Africa didn’t need right now. As money flowed out of the country’s stock and bond markets this week, the currency came under fire, hitting new lows against the dollar and sterling. In itself, the weakened currency would […]

‘VICTIMISED’ BY TRC IN a last-minute effort to delay the inevitable, the Junior Doctors’ Association of South Africa (Judasa) was planning to urge Health Minister Nkosazana Zuma on Thursday to hold off implementing compulsory community service until 1999. Judasa, which has opposed the scheme of community service for newly-qualified doctors, also hopes to discuss the […]

Anthony Kunda Zambian opposition parties knew hours after this week’s failed coup that President Frederick Chiluba would use it as an excuse to declare a State of Emergency. They also feared their leaders would be arrested when Chiluba said on Tuesday this week: “We will announce measures to ensure that our security forces go about […]

river Lake Kariba is a thing of beauty to visiting tourists, but the Tonga people look on its glittering waters with sadness, and remember what they lost 40 years ago, writes Jonathon Tulloch The night sky above Binga is dizzying. Here is power besides which the lights of even the great cities of the earth […]