Cape Flats residents who were left homeless after last year’s tornado feel that the municipality has not done enough to provide new housing Marianne Merten A year to the day after her daughter Ghaironisah Moosa was killed when a tornado hit Manenberg on the Cape Flats, Maraldia Ajam died. The elderly woman lived for much […]

Belinda Beresford It’s all in the packaging! That, at least, is the hope of the Department of Health, which has decided that colour counts in the battle against Aids. In an attempt to make condoms more popular among the majority population, government-sponsored Condom Cans could soon be stocked with brown condoms as well as the […]

Jaspreet Kindra The tensions within the tripartite alliance are increasingly being blamed on President Thabo Mbeki, who is perceived by other alliance leaders as having systematically cut them off from debate on economic policy. Notwithstanding this view, expressed by several senior members of the Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu)and the South African Communist […]

Highly educated blacks working in South Africa struggle against a system that aims to exclude and sideline them, writes Wiseman Magasela There is the open struggle that is fought with bullets and bombs out on the plains. War is declared. Battle lines are drawn. The enemy is known and identifiable. South Africa had its own […]

SOUTH Africa’s largest engineering and contracting group Murray & Roberts has reported sharp losses for the 2000 financial year, but expects earnings to improve in the year ahead. ”We are now in a position to get down to business … we have a strong balance sheet which gives us a solid platform for growth,” chief […]

Sprint queen Marion Jones and swimmer Ian Thorpe are among those hoping to strike multiple gold in Sydney Grant Shimmin On Monday evening, Australian time, the bulk of South Africa’s 130-strong Olympic team will take up residence in the future Sydney suburb of Newington which is the athletes’ village for this month’s games. For them, […]

A CLOTHING store manager and a staff member have appeared in a Northern Province court for allegedly painting a 14-year-old girl white after accusing her of shoplifting. Thelma Strydom, who manages Pep Stores in Louis Trichardt, and employee Julia Munyai were not asked to plead on charges of assault, theft and crimen injuria. A male […]

OWN CORRESPONDENTS, Cape Town | Thursday THE gathering of intelligence is to be stepped up significantly as national and provincial government deploys massive resources to combat the wave of bomb attacks on the Cape Peninsula, says provincial community safety minister Hennie Bester. Bester told a news conference that traffic police would also have to be […]

ABOUT three-quarters of South Africans are positive the future would be happy for all citizens – but decreasing numbers of minority groups say they are “confident or positive” in a national poll conducted by market researchers Markinor. In its biannual survey, which coincides with the South African Human Rights Commission’s four-day conference on racism in […]

BRENDAN BOYLE, Johannesburg | Thursday FORMER South African President FW de Klerk has broken a long silence to warn that the racial harmony that marked the transition from apartheid to democracy is starting to crumble. De Klerk, the white Afrikaner who handed power to Nelson Mandela in 1994, said in a statement that whites, mixed-race […]