charged Peta Thornycroft SEVERAL “third force” trials may not take place because the Transvaal attorney general’s office is grossly under- resourced. Dozens of former and present members of the security forces are likely to escape being charged for their crimes. Knowing that they will not be prosecuted will also enable them to avoid applying for […]
FRIDAY, 12.00NOON: SUNDOWNS recovered from an own goal in the first half to crush Kaizer Chiefs with a 3-1 victory in a tense Premier League clash at Odi Stadium yesterday. Downs’ midfielder Linda Buthelezi gave Chiefs a free lead in the 18th minute when he accidentally headed the ball into his team’s net. But Downs […]
Lesley Cowling Imagine the life of Sergeant Van der Merwe. He comes home after a hard day at work, switches on the television to relax and gets yet another detective drama. Not only do his glamorous counterparts get to solve crimes in the space of an hour, but they’re surrounded by state-of-the-art law enforcement technology. […]
FRIDAY 11.00AM The start of trade in rand-dollar futures on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange next week will help stabilise the local currency, Finance Minister Trevor Manuel said yesterday. “Instruments like the futures contract are likely to dampen the volatility we lived through last year because they put instruments of choice on the market place,” Manuel […]
Gustav Thiel THE Anglican Church was due in Port Elizabeth’s Labour Court this Friday to fight a case in which God’s will (according to the church) squares up to the Labour Relations Act. Roger Paxton, a former Anglican rector in the Eastern Cape, claims he was unfairly dismissed and that the church breached the new […]
One of the biggest sexual-harassment suits in US corporate history has led to two senior officials losing their positions at Mitsubishi and 28 women are still set to sue. Frank Swoboda and Warren Brown report Mitsubishi Motor Corporation has replaced the top two Japanese officials of its United States auto-operations as part of the continuing […]
THERE is a long-forgotten picture of Uganda’s Yoweri Museveni, then still a guerilla leader, shaking hands with then president Bazilio Okella on December 17 1985. The leaders had just signed a treaty to end the civil war and create a transitional government in Kampala. A few weeks later, Museveni tore the treaty up, took the […]
Mark Tran in Washington and Larry Elliott THE world’s financial markets could be plunged into chaos if European Monetary Union (EMU) fails to go ahead on time in 1999, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) warned this week. With the French, German and Italian governments battling to get their economies in shape for the single currency […]
privilege Ben Turok THE recent report that black corporations now control 8,6% of values at the Johannesburg Stock Exchange comes as a clear signal of the increasing pace of black advancement into the highest echelons of South African society. Until now, the most visible aspect of black advancement was in the political domain, where the […]
Durban is hosting South Africa’s first international poetry festival. HUMPHREY TYLER looked in on the preparations and spoke to Breyten Breytenbach Young women still warm to poets, especially when they are good-looking. So there are welcoming smiles for Breyten Breytenbach when he enters a tomb-like vault underneath the Sneddon Theatre at the University of Natal […]