A Durban business project has aligned the ANC and Inkatha against the ANC’s traditional allies — union and civic organisations, writes Farouk Chothia THE ANC has found itself on the side of the Inkatha Freedom Party with its traditional allies ranged against it over its support for Durban City Council’s ostentatious building projects worth hundreds […]
Weekly Mail Reporters CLASHES in Lesotho are unlikely to tempt South Africa to exercise its newfound moral authority and military muscle to become a regional policeman on the subcontinent. Minister of Foreign Affairs Alfred Nzo made it clear yesterday that although he was still awaiting reports from the country’s ambassador in Maseru, Gerhard Visser, South […]
Chris Louw and Gaye Davis MINISTER without Portfolio Jay Naidoo will address non- governmental organisations in Johannesburg today to discuss their role in the government’s reconstruction and development programme. The two-day conference, to be attended by more than 200 NGOs and representatives of civics, unions, youth and women’s organisations from across the country, comes amid […]
The family of a murdered woman has accused the Witwatersrand attorney-general of delaying the prosecution of the alleged killer, a man suspected of being involved in a trade union scam, reports Stefaans Brummer A FORMER security police captain allegedly at the centre of a “dirty tricks” operation against a trade union, and who is a […]
DASHIELL Ross (July 29 to August 4) makes some strange claims about the proposed measures to limit the effectiveness of tobacco ads, for instance, that the measures would ”completely negate the purpose of advertising”. I seem to recall hearing the tobacco lobby claim that their ads are not intended to make more people smoke, but […]
A Constitutional Court will have a huge impact on the lives of all South Africans, making the composition of the court a crucial issue, writes Dennis Davis. Yet two important judges were not chosen JUDGED by the density of coverage in last week’s media, the country’s very future appeared to depend on the inevitably mercurial […]
Police involvement with crime syndicates lies behind some of the recent attacks on policemen. Paul Stober reports INFORMATION linking some policemen killed in attacks this year to criminal gangs prompted Minister of Safety and Security Sydney Mufamadi and PWV premier Tokyo Sexwale this week to blame organised crime for the murder of South African Police […]
Jacques Magliolo IN ITS latest interim results Anglo American Industrial Corporation, controlling shareholder of Highveld Steel and Vanadium, assures shareholders that ”with an improvement in vanadium prices towards mid- year, world supply/demand appears to be approaching a balanced position.” Few experts agree, saying that it will take years for the price of vanadium to rise […]
Evidence of a bombs-for-oil trade between Pretoria and Iraq in the 1980s is being used to try to force Armscor out of the international arms market. Paul Stober and Eddie Koch report AN American court has accused a former Barlow Rand company of illegally supplying Iraq with bomb technology in exchange for thousands of tons […]
Business is trying to subvert union power by making unions shareholders and offering workers ‘no-strike’ bonuses, writes Jacques Magliolo The bargaining power of unions is under threat. Recent trends in the market show that management is refusing to compromise during wage demands, but is, at the same time, introducing bonuses for those who do not […]