The draft Basic Conditions of Employment Bill, released this week, has raised the ire of business and labour. A compromise is vital if Gear is to stay on track. Madeleine Wackernagel and Ferial Haffajee report THE next stage in the heavyweight battle to get the draft Basic Conditions of Employment Bill passed into law is […]
Treatment for Aids barely exists for 90% of Third World patients. That may now change, says the scientist who discovered the Aids virus. Dawn Blalock reports AIDS is no longer the disease it used to be, says the man who discovered the virus that causes it. There’s still no cure, but more effective treatments are […]
The health authorities fudged the damning findings of an investigation into the deaths of four patients at the hands of one of Zuma’s Cuban doctors. Mungo Soggot and Marion Edmunds report MINISTER of Health Dr Nkosazana Zuma has been implicated in a cover-up of circumstances surrounding the deaths of four patients – including a seven-year-old […]
South African theatre has a specific Jewish history. Our writers look at productions both past and present Claudia Braude POPULAR theatrical representations of Holocaust history are the rage in Johannesburg. Diane Samuels’s Kindertransport, running to critical acclaim at the Market Theatre, explores the return of memory of one survivor of Nazism. Evelyn is a composite […]
Tangeni Amupadhi THE banks and police have been concealing crucial information about the growing wave of bank robberies, including statistics that police apprehend only 10% of culprits. The information reveals that the crime wave besetting South Africa is even worse than the public has been led to believe. The Mail & Guardian has established that […]
SUZY BELL speaks to reggae superstar Lucky Dube about the release of his new album Taxman – and other taxing matters HE sits comfortably cross-legged in the Oppenheimer suite of the Edward Hotel with a toffee-coloured woolly tea cosy of a hat hiding his trademark Rasta dreads. His speech is slow and deliberate, with more […]
If a new Bill passes in Zambia, the government will have more control over the press than ever before, reports Anthony Kunda in Lusaka THE Zambian government is gearing itself to gag journalists through the establishment of a media council which will have the power to license or bar from practice any journalist flouting set […]
tell MPs Gustav Thiel CAPE TOWN’s sex workers say there is at least one good reason to keep Parliament in the “mother city”: if it moves, they will lose some of their best customers. Though it is not clear such concerns will play a key role in determining Parliament’s future home, a brief probe by […]
standards’ The Education Ministry dismisses concerns about the quality of university degrees as `racist’, report Mungo Soggot and Stuart Hess A PUBLIC row has erupted at Wits University between two of its top academics over whether its drive to bring in previously disadvantaged students has eroded standards. Professor Charles van Onselen, a historian, says the […]
K Letsholo in Maun THE Botswana government is being accused of hiding its head in the sand when it comes to involving citizens in the lucrative ostrich industry. The country which has the largest wild ostrich population in the world still only has nine registered farmers – and one of them is the president. Two […]