Sibusiso Nxumalo WOMEN across the country marked Women’s Day by mourning the death of ANC MP Feroza Adam, credited with inspiring and uniting women across race and class divisions as a tireless worker for women’s rights. Adam (33) died on Monday night in Cape Town’s Groote Schuur Hospital after a car accident last Saturday. The […]
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 […]
Farouk Chothia CRAFT vendors who display their wares on Durban’s Golden Mile, the sangomas who scatter dead pigeons on the city’s bustling pavements, the dress-sellers who shout their prices on street corners — these women are all members of one of the country’s newest unions, the Self-Employed Women’s Union (Sewu). Muti-seller Zodwa Khumalo is Sewu’s […]
RUGBY: Barney Spender ON THE 12th green with the rain beginning to fall gently, the big man in the lumberjack shirt lines up the putt. His three colleagues look on quietly as he steadies himself, gripping the putter lightly in his lumberjack hands. Finally he is ready and the ball rolls toward the hole. And […]
Professor Carel Boshoff wants to turn the north-west Cape into South Africa’s Silicon Valley, reports Jan Taljaard THE FIRST concrete plans for an Afrikaner homeland were laid before the Volkstaat Council this week, And the most novel of these is a proposal from Professor Carel Boshoff and his Afrikaner Freedom Foundation (Avstig) to turn the […]
Gone are the rough, raw emotions. But don’t blame Koos Kombuis; it’s the production that’s the problem, writes Fred de Vries IT’S confession time. I love the music of Koos Kombuis. But his first proper album since 1989s Niemandsland is a bitter disappointment. Or perhaps one should say: it could have been so much better […]
Peter and Gary Kirsten have already made their mark in the current test series … but they’re amazed they’re even there CRICKET: Paul Martin ON the Knysna lagoon a year-or-so ago, a rubber dinghy floated idly along. “We had a few Castles in the boat, and we didn’t even notice the fishes on the hook,” […]
A report card on the new government. By Anton Harber.
Research reveals that gold miners are exposed to dangerous levels of radioactive gases, reports Eddie Koch WORKERS in South Africa’s gold mines now have to deal with a new set of underground demons: radon and her “daughters”. New research shows more than 10 000 miners are exposed to doses of subterranean radioactive gases that exceed […]
Jacques Magliolo THE National Union of Mineworkers has appealed to the Johannesburg Stock Exchange to halt the planned takeover of Randgold, saying it should first consider “certain ethical questions”. The WM&G is in possession of a letter sent to the JSE’s Ethics Committee by NUM general secretary Kgalema Motlanthe, in which he says: “We would […]