Yearly Archives: 2001

Nawaal Deane The Office of the President has become embroiled in a dispute over outstanding debts of the South African Chapter of the African Renaissance (Sacar), a supposedly independent body formed to change negative perceptions of the continent. An advertising and events-management firm, Vukani Ma Afrika, has accused Sacar of dodging the payment of accounts […]

Harriet Mazansky of Boston is shaken by South Africans’ America bashing (December 7). She needs to know the real bad news: the attack on our currency has made us feel that elements within the globe-gobbling superpower have made themselves our enemies. If someone tries to mug us on the street, we shoot to kill lest […]

How a quiet French intellectual revolutionised British sporting culture Andrew Anthony Just after Arsenal Football Club won the Double in 1998, David Dein, the vice-chairman, filled out a hotel form for his team manager, Arsne Wenger. He wrote down his name and address, and then, in the section marked “occupation”, he entered “miracle worker”. One […]

Your coverage of Zimbabwean issues smacks of malice. A precedent is being set in Zimbabwe. Nowhere in the world has a white man been disposessed of his “property” like what is happening in Zimbabwe right now without compensation. After getting his stash on the back of initially slavery then colonialism and now neocolonialism, the white […]

David Macfarlane Unisas controversial council is continuing its defiance of the government to the bitter end. It rejects the auditor generals recent report on the remuneration of councillors and is resisting Minister of Education Kader Asmals intention to dissolve the council. This week also brought further upheavals among senior management: vice-principal (tuition) Professor Simon Maimela […]

Jillian Edelstein spent four years recording the progress of the truth commission. Her new book, Truth and Lies, tells some of the stories that emerged. The following is an extract from this book In 1985 I left South Africa to take up a photography course in London. After that, although I went back regularly to […]

Khadija Magardie and Esa Conning The art of qiraat or recitation of Islams holy book, the Quran, is as old as the Quran itself. Muslims regard the Quran, revealed to the Prophet Muhammad in the seventh century, as the pure, unadulterated Word of God and place strict injunctions on the believers to both recite and […]

This follows the decision by an ANC majority to force through its response to the joint investigating team report and ignore the opposition parties call for a continuation of Scopas inquiry Barry Streek In the wake of the row over the governments accountability to Parliament on the controversial R66-billion arms deal, the chairperson of the […]

Justin Arenstein The worlds largest international money transfer company, Western Union, suspended all services in South Africa this week following local cash-flow and foreign exchange problems. The freeze on payments totalling an estimated R100-million a month is expected to hit migrant miners and workers hardest. Migrant workers and South African expatriates use Western Union to […]

Drew Forrest Even Sipho Pityanas detractors in the Department of Foreign Affairs concede he is a superb administrator whose departure almost certainly to the private sector will be a loss to the department and the government. One of the longest-serving new-order mandarins he has been a director general since 1995 Pityana refuses to discuss reports […]