Paul Stober AN international policing expert has slammed the police science degree at the University of South Africa (Unisa) — necessary for policemen who want to work their way through South African Police ranks — as dated and out of tune with the needs of the new police service. In a paper submitted to the […]
Reg Rumney talks to the founders of a new recruitment agency specialising in affirmative action for NGOs BY concentrating on affirmative action for non-governmental organisations and development organisations a new recruitment agency has carved itself a unique niche. The carefully targeted two-woman, sorry, two-person business, operating out of — where else? — Braamfontein, started in […]
Pressure is mounting for an investigation into the kwaZulu Police as its former chief alleges the existence of hit squads, reports Farouk Chothia DIVISIONS and rivalry in the kwaZulu Police are blowing the force wide open, with outgoing commissioner General Roy During making the most serious allegations yet about ”hit squad” activity in the force. […]
CRICKET: Paul Martin OLD Father Time, the most famous weather-cock in the world, swivels gently about the grandstand at Lord’s, the planet’s most famous cricket ground. The message for cricketers and spectators alike is that time catches up with us all, though judging from his still well-muscled physique, it has been kind to Michael John […]
Whites are still being prosecuted for refusing to attend camps, reports Stefaans Brummer SOUTH Africa’s new ministry of defence has come under fire for persisting with a whites-only call-up and prosecutions of those who fail to report for duty. While the Defence Act was amended last year to abolish white conscription and create a non-racial […]
State security files obtained by the Mail & Guardian under the new Bill of Rights are empty or inaccurate — suggesting police have hidden or destroyed the information they collected during the 1980s. By Weekly Mail Reporter THE Mail & Guardian’s campaign to have the government release security information collected in the 1980s has revealed […]
Labour tenants are fighting back after a wave of evictions, reports Vuyo Mvoko MBULAWA Mavimbela faces a terrible dilemma — either he loses his home or all the wealth he has accumulated in his 55 years: 27 cows and 54 sheep. Mavimbela, a “farm boy” since birth, is a labour tenant in the Piet Retief […]
Farouk Chothia THE IFP last weekend adopted a new constitution that attempts to put into practice what it preaches: the devolution of power along federal lines. It is similiar to a constitution the IFP adopted in 1990 — and never implemented. Power remained firmly in the hands of president Mangosuthu Buthelezi. Large sections of the […]
Both managements and unions will have to adapt to deal with the rising tide of worker militancy, writes Drew Forrest IT somehow seemed out of place in the brave new South Africa — a white manager of Pick ‘n Pay’s Southgate store held hostage by black strikers in his office, a sharpened broomstick at his […]
Dutch bassist Eric van der Westen keeps forging links with South African jazz. Now local musos can sample his technique at a series of workshops. Gwen Ansell reports `LAST time I left South Africa,” reflects Dutch jazz bassist Eric van der Westen over a heaped plate of Yeoville’s best bacon and eggs, “it took me […]