The anarchy caused by the crisis in the transport industry could end when the new Transport Act comes into force Glenda Daniels Taxi and bus wars will become a thing of the horrible past when the new integrated plan for an efficient public transport system, the government’s new National Land Transport Transition Act, is implemented. […]
Johannesburg’s newest mall is tailor-made for the younger generation, but it is already beginning to age Melinda Silverman Architects hate malls. They hate their looks -ugly boxes adrift in a sea of cars – and they hate the way shopping malls have destroyed old-fashioned city streets. They hate the combination of windowless concrete brutalism and […]
Haroon Bhorat A second look As the employment equity commission (EEC) of the Department of Labour begins to assess discrimination and inequality in the labour market, it is important to inject a series of numbers and facts early on into this debate. This is to ensure that the EEC makes proclamations and decisions based on […]
Thuli Nhlapo The South African Law Commission confirmed it is conducting research on the subject of commercial sex work within the ambit of reviewing current sexual offences legislation – but said the process was still at a “sensitive stage”. The discussion paper on the matter, according to the commission, might be available by the end […]
Tom Sutcliffe Obituary T he best-known and loved English actor of the 20th century, Sir Alec Guinness, who has died aged 86, was an unostentatious and reserved man. He undertook a great variety of roles, all informed with the wisdom of the sad clown. His spiritual severity and stillness made him an icon after his […]
Thebe Mabanga in your ear Radio’s contribution to the growth in club culture over the past decade has been immense. When one thinks of the late Ian Segola and Quincy Kekana at the then Radio Metro 576MW, as well as Auldrin Mokgotsi at Radio Bop 540MW, it is hard to believe how much the phenomenon […]
Khadija Magardie The South African Communist Party has launched disciplinary proceedings against one of its senior members, freelance journalist Dale McKinley, for allegedly bringing the party and its alliance partners into disrepute. McKinley is set to be grilled on Friday August 11 for more than two hours by a panel made up of the top […]
AN 11-year-old American boy was attacked and killed last month by a hyena while he was sleeping in a tent during a safari in Botswana’s Moremi Game Reserve, a tour operator has told a local news agency. Reports yesterday named the boy as Mark Garrat Shea, from Baltimore. Bridget Hedges, a spokesperson for Botswana tour […]
EGYPTIAN women are looking for more and more ingenious “anti-lecher weapons” to ward off bottom-pinchers and arm-strokers in Cairo’s buses and cinemas, the weekly Al-Ahram Hebdo has reported. Marwa, a 22-year-old student, told the paper she had to threaten to hit a man with one of her shoes before he stopped pressing himself against her […]
TWO KwaZulu-Natal policemen arrested on Wednesday night in connection with the death of ANC MP Bheki Mkhize have appeared in the Empangeni Regional Court. Captain Zeblon Dlamini, 39, and Sergeant Phiwa Nkosi Magwaza, 39, appeared on Thursday, charged with murder. Dlamini was also charged with defeating the ends of justice — according to provincial Independent […]