Marianne Merten An 11-year-old Boland girl who lost half a leg in a farming accident eight months ago is getting an artificial leg fitted free of charge after a Pretoria orthopaedist and prostheticist became aware of her plight. “I’m doing this for free because of two reasons: I feel sorry for her and not everyone […]
After many years in the football wilderness, Lamontville Golden Arrows have been promoted to the Premier Soccer League Merryman Kunene If Lamontville Golden Arrows’ ascendancy to the Premier Soccer League was a straight- forward issue of clinching the MTN First Division Coastal Stream crown, then staying in the company of the elite boys will require […]
Barry Streek Although Cape Town has grown significantly faster than other metropolitan areas during the 1990s, the scale and seriousness of the challenges facing it represented “a loud wake-up call” to all its citizens and stakeholders, the local unicity commission has said. A bleak scenario for the unified Cape Town, to be formed later this […]
Station commissioner of Umbilo police station, Ian McCall, has targeted Dalton hostel as a major source of crime in the city Paul Kirk The rats scampered away with a pride of feral cats in hot pursuit as the police stormed the municipal beer hall. Adjacent to Durban’s notorious Dalton hostel, parts of the hall have […]
rights Liesl Gerntholtz There can be little doubt that women have made great strides since 1994. We have seen a large number of laws put into place to empower women and improve their status. As Nohlanhla Mjoli-Mncube says: “Gender equality is receiving more attention than in any other period in the history of South Africa. […]
David Beresford Another Country In the final analysis, perhaps, one can only judge oneself and I guess I will just have to remember that voice and make of it what I will. ”Hello,” she would say tentatively, answering the telephone in her room, ”who’s speaking ?” ”Die baas!” I would sometimes declare sternly and wait […]
Minister of Agriculture and Land Affairs Thoko Didiza is running a vibrant department into the ground Ben Cousins The replacement of senior managers of the Department of Land Affairs (”Hanekom’s appointees shown the door”, August 4 to 10) is the tip of a very large iceberg. Weak leadership by Minister of Agriculture and Land Affairs […]
Evidence wa ka Ngobeni Northern Province police have arrested at least five sangomas in the past few months for sexually assaulting teenagers and forcing female clients to submit to sex to be cured of their illnesses. The police have raised concerns about the incidents and have also embarked on an awareness campaign to warn women […]
The Mail & Guardian continues to stagger under the sheer weight of libel actions, ranging from Aubrey Levin to the Inkatha Freedom Party. Although the newspaper’s slender resources are strained (the most ill-founded of writs have to be discussed to some extent with lawyers), just one of them could prove to be a torpedo that […]
The South African Communist Party (SACP) has expelled freelance journalist Dale McKinley from the party for “consistently and publicly” attacking leaders of the African National Congress. McKinley was summonsed to a disciplinary hearing at the weekend where he was allowed to present a defence. The SACP’s central committee then endorsed the decision to expel him. […]