Yearly Archives: 2001

The Movement for Multiparty Democracy is unpopular, but it is still likely to win in the upcoming elections Gregory Mthembu-Salter As Zambia prepares to go to the polls in landmark presidential and parliamentary elections, President Frederick Chiluba marked the country’s 37th independence anniversary on Wednesday with a strong warning to the international community not to […]

Tusi Fokane There are just days to go before the 30-day Arts Alive Television (ATV) broadcasting licence expires, with-out any part of the promised Johannesburg spring cultural festival being broadcast. Instead, the programmes packaged for the festival may find a slot on Lesotho Television. ATV cites a number of reasons for this failure, ranging from […]

Mail & Guardian reporters “South Africa’s success stories of tomorrow are not yet in business today,” says Hugh Herman, chairperson of the Investec Group. “If meaningful empowerment comes with the creation of sustainable employment, then we all have a role to play in helping small business take root.” Investec feels strongly about stimulating a vibrant […]

Cape Town’s cup specialists have a good record against the top sides Ntuthuko Maphumulo Ajax Cape Town play the “diamond system” favoured by their mother side, Ajax Amsterdam, and are trying to bring the Dutch brand of total football to their home at Newlands stadium. But the side often confound their supporters. They produce sparkling […]

Evidence wa ka Ngobeni It’s an ordinary Monday morning at Kaditswene in the Northern Province, where villagers are wearing construction helmets and sun hats not to avoid the scorching African sun but to fight off the thick dust and rocks propelled by blasting operations at the nearby red-granite mines. At this village near Potgietersrus two […]

The record reveals President Thabo Mbeki ‘s true stance on Aids, writes Drew Forrest “And thus does it happen that others who consider themselves to be our leaders take to the streets carrying their placards, to demand that, because we are germ carriers and human beings of a lower order that cannot subject their passion […]

Needy pensioners in the Western Cape are being provided with full sets of teeth for free Rob Davies Most of us take having a full set of teeth for granted. We pay no thought to crunching up a packet of crisps, navigating our way through a mealie or pulverising a pizza. Yet there are many […]

Rob Davies For the majority of South Africa’s rural communities change is a slow process sometimes so slow that catching up becomes almost impossible. Old Mutual’s rural economic development initiative (REDI) aims to address this problem through the development of rural communities in partnership with the communities themselves and the Small Business Project a Section […]

Jaspreet Kindra African National Congress secretary general Kgalema Motlanthe said this week that the ANC’s national executive committee (NEC) had launched an offensive on ultra-leftists allegedly dividing the tripartite alliance because “we want to show we are not weaklings”. Motlanthe said ANC branches were aware of the ultra-leftist “tendency” singled out in a leaked NEC […]

Niki Moore It took a series of natural disasters before the Zululand Chamber of Business Foundation (ZCBF) was established. In 1985 a cyclone swept away rural dwellings in Zululand and left thousands homeless. Local businesses jumped in to help, led by Richard’s Bay Coal Terminal CEO Mike Dunn. They raised R200000 in relief and founded […]