analysis Thabo Masebe South Africa’s democratic government stands accused of serious crimes against its own people. Is it guilty as charged? Methinks the charges are based on fallacious and dangerous hype. Much has been said about our government’s economic policies that might convince a casual observer that the government is pursuing policies inimical to national […]

Marianne Merten The banner at the New National Party’s final Western Cape provincial congress proclaimed: “NNP + DP = DA”. The elderly Cape Flats woman in the observer seats who enthusiastically waved her NNP scarf may not see things the same way. Coloured resentment of the NNP’s partner in the Democratic Alliance, the Democratic Party, […]

SOCCER Ntuthuko Maphumulo As the row over the omission of Kaizer Chiefs chair Kaizer Motaung from the three Premier Soccer League (PSL) representatives to the South African Football Association (Safa) executive simmers, further tensions have come to light in the national body. There have been allegations that president Molefi Oliphant and his deputy, Irvin Khoza, […]

Evidence wa ka Ngobeni The Eastern Cape legislature this week reacted with shock at a damning report showing horrific details of sexual abuse, rape and exploitation of teenage pupils at provincial schools. The report, which was compiled by the legislature’s standing committee on education, revealed how teachers at a number of provincial schools used their […]

An Aids care facility performs “miracles” by keeping patients on a regimen of vitamins and fresh food Niki Moore Lana Oatway is quite smug about the fact that she can work miracles. “People arrive here on the back of a bakkie, showing all the symptoms of full-blown Aids, more than half dead,” says Oatway, manager […]

South Africa would be unwise to underestimate the Indian tourists Peter Robinson Even before South Africa started to trample their way around Zimbabwe, there was a generally held view that Zimbabwe constituted a warm-up for Sourav Ganguly’s Indians who, in turn, were designed to act as sparring partners ahead of the real business against Australia. […]

By end of March 2001, Telkom had: * 129 ATM points of presence across the country. * Installed 374 062 Integrated Service Digital Network (ISDN) channels providing end-to-end digital connectivity to business. * About 1 196 000km of optical fibre in the network. * Installed 343-million kilometres of transmission circuits with 792 000 ports. * […]

The article by Belinda Beresford (R2,7-billion needed to fight Aids”, September 21) missed the point of the government’s pathetic HIV/Aids policy. At the root of the President’s attempts to block the use of anti-retroviral drugs for the poor are his desperate attempts to privatise the public health services. Reports that contradict his view are suppressed, […]

Mungo Soggot and Stefaans Brmmer Telkom has stepped up its purge of its security network, cancelling its contract with Royal Security, the company at the centre of a long-running investigation, and axing two more managers. The investigation initially targeted the parastatal’s former deputy chief operating officer, Bheki Langa, who resigned in July ahead of a […]

The disgraced former cricket captain went to court to try to overturn his life ban from the game Khadija Magardie Given all the claims of impecuniosity from the gabled manors of Fancourt beforehand it should come as no surprise that when his day in court finally arrived this week, Hansie Cronje’s chief objective was to […]