Workers didn’t win many concessions in the Pick ‘n Pay strike but there is hope for better relations with management, writes Drew Forrest PICK ‘n Pay workers have lost their bitter three-week wage strike — but the settlement package holds out the prospect of reconstruction of union-management relations at the retail giant. And Labour Minister […]
Weekly Mail Reporter A SINGLE death last week represents the lowest death toll from “political violence” recorded by the Human Rights Committee in the PWV since February last year. The HRC said that for the week ending last Tuesday it had recorded one death and one injury in the PWV: the death of a white […]
Sibusiso Nxumalo A SOUTH African National Defence Force soldier has accused former members of ANC security department Mbokodo — now senior officers in the new defence force — of victimising him for testifying about abuses in ANC detention camps. In a letter in the possession of the Mail & Guardian, Olefile Mngqibisa describes harassment by […]
Weekly Mail Reporter THE Market Theatre Company’s production of Scenes from an Execution won seven of the FNB Vita PWV theatre awards last week. The play was named best production of the year. Also honoured were its director, Clare Stopford; Dawid Minnaar and Camilla Waldman, who took the awards for best performance by supporting actors; […]
Jacques Magliolo looks at the profile of a typical insider trader Meet Henry — well educated, well dressed and well-off. A highly respected member of the stockbroking fraternity and a well- known socialite, he knows everyone who is anyone. Henry drives an imported sports car, lives in a mansion in an exclusive Johannesburg suburb — […]
Sidwell Hartman has turned down five overseas offers this year — yet the role he most wants to sing here has been offered to a foreigner. Coenraad Visser talked to him between rehearsals for Pact’s Aida A MODEST person with strong Christian beliefs, Sidwell Hartman does not at first evoke the image of the warrior […]
Jan Taljaard IT was truly a gathering of the faithful. In contrast to the milling throngs of the past, just over 800 supporters turned up at the Pretoria City Hall this week to listen to the Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging’s Eugene Terre’Blanche. In the past, the Pretoria City Hall had served the AWB well as a recruiting […]
The decision to smooth out differences was the crowning achievement of the ANC’s summit, reports Paul Stober THE ANC’s “pragmatic” and “left” camps — locked in a struggle over the future of the organisation — negotiated an informal truce at the ANC’s first post-election inter- regional summit last weekend. At the heart of the debate […]
Tenant farming communities are being ignored in the land- reform process. This could prove disastrous for the government, warns Dave Husy of the Farmworkers’ Research and Resource Project RECENTLY 7 000 farm tenants and workers downed tools and took to the streets of traditionally ultra-conservative Piet Retief, marching through the town to present a memorandum […]
Television Sophie Perryer WE might have made the giant leap of faith into the new South Africa, but it was on everyone’s lips this week that the sins of the past should not be forgotten. While opposing members of the government debated the formation of a Truth and Reconciliation Commission, artist William Kentridge translated his […]