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 […]
The effects of political change have not yet filtered through to the exchange rate, writes Simon Segal DESPITE its recent recovery, the persistent erosion of the value of the rand is a worrying testimonial to the new government. After all, many predicted, once South Africa’s first non-racial election was over the pressure on our currency […]
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 […]
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 […]
Stefaans Brummer WITWATERSRAND Attorney-General Klaus von Lieres und Wilkau says Defence Minister Joe Modise’s moratorium on prosecuting people who fail to respond to call-ups is a “puff in the wind”. Modise said in parliament members of the Citizen Force and commando units — all white, because they were fed by whites-only conscription until it was […]
CRICKET: Paul Martin THEY froze in amazement when denied, they ran in from the far-flung corners of Headingley to congratulate supposed wicket-takers, they stared in mute (and not so mute) amazement at the umpires. It was, as Kepler Wessels said afterwards, “a bit ridiculous”. The English press made a meal of the remarks: they love […]
Michele Witthaus IT takes a sugar farmer from Natal to explain photography to the people of Johannesburg. The farmer in question is Peter Engblom, who was enticed out of his rural retreat to redesign the Bensusan Photography Museum for its new incarnation at MuseumAfrica. For years, the Bensusan Museum was located in an old house […]
The Nationalists called them ‘surplus people’, the government of national unity calls them ‘squatters’. Whatever term you use, they’re as ‘superfluous’ as they ever were, writes Cosmas Desmond IT was just like old times: people — angry, frustrated, powerless and, of course, black people — squatting in the dust waiting for the powers that be […]