The dream of founding a new National Party is over for Roelf Meyer, courtesy of the NP’s elite, reports Marion Edmunds FALLEN National Party hero, Roelf Meyer, has been outmanoeuvred by his opponents. His more conservative colleagues, led by executive director Marthinus van Schalkwyk and Western Cape Premier Hernus Kriel, pressured leader FW de Klerk […]
Despite criticism, Cuban doctors work in places where South African doctors refuse to go, reports Dawn Blalock THE child on his mother’s lap is breathing in short quick breaths. The mother describes his symptoms in Setswana. “How many days with the fever?” the doctor asks in English. Although neither English nor Setswana is his native […]
A small Free State town provides a testing ground for South Africa’s three-year democracy. Stuart Hess and Dawn Blalock report
Stuart Hess and Mungo Soggot report on a case that takes the failure of the courts to protect the public to a new extreme MAMOKGETHI MALEBANA is missing. Lots of children go missing in South Africa. But the disappearance of this seven-year-old child from Katlehong is a shocking indictment of the country’s criminal justice system. […]
profits Developed countries may have learnt that environmental friendliness pays, but South Africa still lags far behind Roger Cowe in London THE “greening” of business has received a boost from research which shows that British companies taking environmental issues seriously have better financial performance than their non-green rivals. In the first substantial study of this […]
In an unfavourable macro-economic environment, Gear could confound plans to provide the necessary support for agriculture, writes Asghar Adelzadeh of the NIEP in the sixth of a series on economic policy THERE have been several attempts to specify and quantify the contribution of agriculture to South Africa’s broader economy. Most concur that the sector’s direct […]
FRIDAY, 6.00PM The statistics released by the Council of South African Banks today revealed that robbers have gotten away with more than R30-million in 164 bank robberies so far this year, while R105,3 million was robbed in 1996. COSAB head Bob Tucker said police indicated the robberies are the work of syndicates, made up of […]
TEACHERS WALK OUT ALL teacher unions walked out of pay negotiations yesterday, the third such walkout this year, accusing the government of lack of transparency. And protests seem likely to come from nurses as well, offered increases of 7,04%, compared to some 22% offered to other low-paid civil servants. IRAQIS IN SUDAN A UGANDAN newspaper, […]
FRIDAY, 5.00PM: The proposed May 12 strike planned by the Congress of SA Trade Unions was delared unlawful in the Labour Court, in Johannesburg today. Cosatu organised the countrywide protests in reaction to certain clauses of the Conditions of Employment Bill. The National Council of Trade Unions voiced its support of the protest action earlier […]
THURSDAY, 4.00PM: SINCE former Zimbabwean president Canaan Banana was accused of homosexual rape by his former aide de camp earlier this year, dozens of students, soccer players and soldiers have approached police investigating the claims with complaints that they too had suffered sexual harassment from Banana, the Financial Gazette repotred Thursday. The allegations first arose […]