you shall reap I wish to respond to Farid Esack’s condemnation of Judge John Foxcroft’s ruling against Allan Boesak (“Used and discarded like a condom”, March 26 to April 1). As a religious teacher and gender commissioner whose primary concern should be with establishing the rule of law and morality in a country where crime […]

Following the withdrawal of charges against Robert McBride, lawyers for the foreign affairs official have spoken out about those who framed him. Wally Mbhele reports More than a year after the dramatic arrest of Department of Foreign Affairs official Robert McBride on trumped-up charges of gun-running, his defence team this week finally had an opportunity […]

Charlene Smith The law is being “cheapened” – not only by lawyers who charge extortionate rates, but by a public misled by poor journalistic understanding of legal debates, Judge Mohammed Navsa told a graduation ceremony at the University of the Witwatersrand on Tuesday night. Navsa, a Johannesburg High Court judge and head of the Legal […]

middle class Black accession to the South African economy has come fast in the past four years. The value of the deals shifting ownership into black hands is quadrupling every year. And black business has shown a talent for the game. For example: it took Afrikaner capital 10 times longer to achieve the level of […]

Jerome Burne and Sarah Ryle Cellular phone users – the scourge of cinemas and restaurants – may be unable to help themselves. A study has found that radiation from cellphones stimulates a morphine-like chemical in the brain, making them addictive. The cellphone “high” is triggered by endorphins released in the brain when microwave radiation from […]

No sooner has humankind identified one kind of discrimination as an evil to be abjured than it comes up with some subtle way of defining new tribes and the untouchables to be excluded from it. The Internet has now become a battleground between forces too intent on their own interests to work for inclusiveness. The […]

Nato’s attacks on Serbia have been condemned by our government as an attack on the authority of the United Nations and as such a breach of international law. If that is the case, we can only assume international law has developed since South Africa sent its troops into Lesotho without a UN mandate. Our intention […]

Emeka Nwandiko Time is running out for people’s poet Mzwakhe Mbuli if he is to try avoid a minimum 10-year sentence by naming senior African National Congress leaders who he claims framed him. Mbuli and two co-accused were found guilty in the Pretoria Magistrate’s Court this week of armed robbery and possession of a hand […]

Chris Roper tunes in to Channel, an exhibition giving exposure to South African video art Video art occupies a slightly ghettoised place in the world of art. Not many people can name its exponents, and some galleries and museums are ambivalent about its status. The Channel exhibition, currently running at the Association for Visual Arts […]

We are encouraged by the interest shown in our water projects. Particularly welcome are the concerns outlined by Charlene Smith (“Too poor to pay for services”, Monitor, March 26 to April 1) which focus on the difficult bit: keeping infrastructure working. If Smith had talked to us, we would have provided a clearer perspective. First, […]