THURSDAY, 1.30PM: THE Sports Ministry mooted legislation on Wednesday enabling it to intervene in sports affairs “when things go wrong”. The Sports and Recreation Department is responsible for promoting sports and recreation, but has no statutory authority to do so. In addition, the duplication of the functions of the department and those of other sports […]
MILITARY personnel are now allowed to join labour unions, following a Constitutional Court ruling on Wednesday, but this does not give them the right to go on strike. The Court has confirmed a 1998 Pretoria High Court ruling that an Defence Act ban on military personnel belonging to unions is unconstitutional. The South African National […]
Peter Makurube For the next two weeks, Johannesburg city will be in feelgood mode because jazz pianist Pat Matshikiza is in town. His sojourn begins on Friday night (May 28) at the Bassline and ends next weekend when he heads for Kippies in the Newtown Cultural Precinct. Hopefully, Matshikiza’s presence in the city will rejuvenate […]
Neil Coleman Right to Reply `It’s the economy, stupid!” This famous adage from Bill Clinton’s first presidential campaign is quoted in the Mail & Guardian’s election coverage last week to correctly raise a concern about the absence of intelligent debate in our elections around core economic issues. Unfortunately, neither Howard Barrell (“Making an art of […]
Aids was a topic this week on SAfm’s morning talk show, hosted by Tim Modise. Donald G McNeil Jnr responds to some of the issues raised Dear Tim Modise, Iam the New York Times reporter who wrote the story about chimpanzees that are the source of the Aids virus being shot for the pot in […]
Barbara Ellen Body Language Not so long ago, the world seemed to be full of women only too eager to invest in shop-bought tits. These days, it seems to be more about downsizing. In a nod to Amazons hacking their right breasts off because they interfered with shooting arrows, a British policewoman explained last week […]
Kate Wilson It used to be that food was only considered authentically African when consumed in a boma with 40 American tourists suitably appalled at the prospect of dining on the kudu they’d gleefully photographed on the game drive an hour before. South Africans’ first experience of the West African staple, Jollof rice, was probably […]
Nashen Moodley Political parties in KwaZulu-Natal are making last-ditch efforts to woo a largely apathetic Indian electorate, using remarkably similar strategies. Opposition parties are attempting to convince the Indian population that it is a marginalised minority and are fuelling insecurity within a community already fearful of the triumvirate of crime, affirmative action and Africanism. Indian […]
Minutes of a State Security Council meeting indicate that FW de Klerk knew more about apartheid-era assassinations than he has let on, writes Mungo Soggot FW de Klerk was among a heavyweight contingent of National Party leaders and securocrats present at a State Security Council meeting where former minister of finance Barend du Plessis proposed […]
Donna Block The bullion price has sunk to new 20-year lows amid heavy fund selling, and the barbarians are at the gate once again. Most analysts agree the short-term outlook for gold is decisively negative. Traders, speculators and hedge funds are taking advantage of that negative sentiment and keeping the downward pressure on the metal […]