Niki Barker The KwaZulu-Natal marine environment is being plundered by unscrupulous fishing fleet owners who are taking advantage of the government’s inability to adequately regulate fishing operations off the coast. A recent shipping disaster in northern KwaZulu-Natal has revealed the lack of control of the lucrative prawn-fishing industry by the Department of Sea Fisheries. Prawn […]

The head of the TRC hopes to hold on to his post, despite his recent appointment as rector of the University of the North, writes Ann Eveleth Truth and Reconciliation Commission CEO Biki Minyuku is bidding to keep his current post after he takes on new responsibilities – and a R1-million salary package – as […]

ONE of President Nelson Mandela’s nephews, Reverend Daliwonga Mandela, is to establish a branch of the New National Party at Motherwell, near Port Elizabeth. NNP MP Dr Manie Schoeman said in Parliament on Thursday that Reverend Mandela had resigned from the African National Congress in 1990 and has now decided to join the NNP. Said […]

Philip Nel : A SECOND LOOK I hope I am not the only Afrikaans speaker who feels uncomfortable with being made the focus of a special debate in Parliament. Although I can understand the political reasons why political parties would like to have such a debate in the run-up to the elections, I do not […]

AT least 40 people were killed and 70 were wounded in a battle early on Friday in the Somali capital, Mogadishu, between militiamen of warlord Musa Sudi Yalahow and gunmen loyal to Mogadishu Governor Hussein Ali Ahmed. The fighting has been between Yalahow’s Da’ud militiamen, supporting the governor — all belonging to the larger Abgal […]

Bafana Khumalo Sergeant Sibusiso Gwala left his army base at Thabatshwane in Pretoria in August 1997 to rush to KwaZulu-Natal when he heard his father, African National Congress leader Harry Gwala, had died. “This was a blood relative and it was important for me to be there,” he explained this week, expressing bitterness that attending […]

Sharon Hammond The Kruger National Park’s new management plan has been approved, paving the way for four-wheel drive routes and a reintroduction of elephant culling. General manager for conservation development Dr Leo Braack says that the new plan took three years to devise and had the approval of many conservationists, including groups traditionally opposed to […]

Matthew Krouse : Down the tube You don’t have to be as deep as Mike Lipkin to know that people spend a lot of their weekends in bed, in front of the television – particularly the early mornings, when those with kids probably get the worst end of a cute, co-parenting romp. If you have […]

The education ministry has requested forensic audits into the financial affairs of six black universities, writes Evidence wa ka Ngobeni With black universities on the brink of collapse, the Ministry of Education has said that criminal charges will be laid against university managers if they are found to have abused taxpayers’ money. This follows Minister […]

Loose cannon : Robert Kirby In a quick-draw response to an opinion expressed in this column some four weeks ago, Anita Kleinsmidt of the Centre for Applied Legal Studies – hereinafter referred to as “Cals” – dances intrepidly to the defence of the rights of nannies – hereinafter referred to as “childminders”. In the column […]