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 […]
Moveable Feast Michele Witthaus BEHIND the dusty, unimposing exterior of 25 Alexander Street, Ferreirastown, are a myriad curious objects on shelves and in glass cabinets. Gaudily painted statuettes share space with miniature Oriental houses, white rabbit sweets, ginseng remedies and “stop smoking tea”. A sign on the wall informs one that “The Chon Hing Restaurant […]
The Development Bank has come up with an innovative plan for land reform, reports Teigue Payne AN INNOVATIVE way of addressing South Africa’s imbalance in ownership of farming land and assets, or at least blurring the “black” or “white” labels on farm land ownership — shareholdings for farmworkers — has received an enthusiastic response among […]
Weekly Mail Reporters THE PWV government yesterday disclosed sensational details of an alleged plot by drug lords to kill PWV premier Tokyo Sexwale. PWV government spokesman Ronnie Mamoepa said he could “confirm the existence of a conspiracy to murder the premier” by a sinister group in the drug world. The reason the group wanted Sexwale […]
Jacques Magliolo Listen closely to rumour mongers at the Johannesburg Stock Exchange and you will hear joyous cries of “The multi-nationals are coming back.” If statistics provided by the Washington-based Investor Responsibility Research Centre are anything to go by, foreign investment is definitely bound for our shores. Distributed in South Africa by McGregors, the research […]
The Cape’s jackass penguin rescue operation didn’t always run as smoothly as the public may believe, reports Fiona Macleod ‘CRUDE is rude, dude” proclaims the T-shirt worn by an American volunteer washing oil-ravaged jackass penguins at the rescue centre run by the South African National Foundation for the Conservation of Coastal Birds (Sanccob) in Cape […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]