Marianne Merten The University of the Western Cape has dismissed allegations of financial mismanagement against senior lecturer Dr Rose September after an internal investigation. “This matter has been investigated and is now closed,” said UWC rector Professor Cecil Abrahams. It was alleged that September had been paid twice for an overseas air ticket to attend […]

Cameron Duodu LETTER FROM THE NORTH Having only recently flown in an Airbus, my heart went out to the passengers on the Kenya Airways plane which fell into the sea a few minutes after taking off from Abidjan. I swear I noticed a shudder in the aircraft, followed by what seemed to be a buffeting […]

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Angus Begg WEEKENDS FOR LOVERS by Bridget Hilton- Barber (Southern) ‘Stopovers are the one-night stands of travelling and an evening with Lord Fraser is one you won’t regret.” Far from an invitation to spend the night with an ageing, cross-dressing British Conservative Party politician who has fallen foul of the tabloids, this is Bridget Hilton-Barber’s […]

Khadija Magardie CROSSFIRE The lead article in the Mail & Guardian (January 28 to February 3) on “Africa’s new slaves” demonstrated a one-sided view of the civil war in Sudan. The three crucial flaws in the article were Cameron Duodu’s failure to probe the role of Christian Solidarity International (CSI) in the alleged “slave trade” […]

FORMER Correctional Services commissioner Khulekani Sitole has withdrawn his Labour Court application to be reinstated. Correctional Services spokesman Russel Mamabolo said on Thursday afternoon that Sitole “has done so unconditionally”. “There will be no Labour Court case on this matter on Friday,” Mamabolo said in Pretoria. Sitole is expected to comment more fully on the […]

Paul Kirk A week after Zulu chiefs met President Thabo Mbeki to ask for the proposed new changes in municipal demarcations to be put on hold, the King of the Pondos, Justice Mpondombini Sigcau, has called for “no changes” in the municipal demarcations in his area. Pondoland has seen exceptionally bloody faction fighting, and the […]

One moment the African National Congress says it wants open and transparent government; the next it seems intent on preventing it. No sooner has the ruling party ushered constitutional Bills through Parliament designed to improve public access to information on government, than the ANC comes up with proposals for parliamentary question time whose effect would […]

Robert Kirby LOOSE CANNON For the next few hundred words I wish to dilate on the subject of Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma’s new lavatory in the Union Buildings. It’s not that I have anything against Dlamini-Zuma having her own lavatory, it’s just the seemingly excessive cost of the whole exercise that begs a question or two. According […]

Mark Milner and Charlotte Denny Britain may be sceptical about the virtues of signing up for the euro but others, from Latin America to the Balkans, are falling over themselves to adopt someone else’s currency. Ecuador announced this week that it plans to replace the sucre with the dollar as the country’s legal tender. Australian […]