Ann Eveleth: IN THE ACT T hree pieces of labour legislation working their way through the halls of Parliament promise dramatic changes in the workplace. But tight human and financial resources, coupled with the growth, employment and redistribution programme’s (Gear) industrial growth bias, raise questions about how effective these changes will be. The Basic Conditions […]
row with black officers Tangeni Amupadhi Minister of Safety and Security Sydney Mufamadi is extinguishing fires these days. In between shuttles to Lesotho for peace talks, he stepped in to quell a growing rift between the national police commissioner and black managers. It is understood Mufamadi urged police National Commissioner George Fivaz to meet with […]
David Beresford: A SECOND LOOK In the week of the launch of a new television channel, which no doubt heralds another garbage-load of American schlock being dumped on the local market, a debate on SAfm brought it home that the true “voice of the nation” is radio. The programme was Talk at Will, the subject […]
Angella Johnson VIEW FROM A BROAD It is exceedingly rare that the president of Johannesburg’s Central Divorce Court refuses to dissolve a marriage. Yet that was exactly what Helen Lotriet did after questioning a young husband who claimed his wife regularly cheated on him. “Are you still living as husband and wife?” inquired Lotriet. It […]
The outsider on this year’s Booker Prize shortlist is a bus driver. Peter Kingston caught a ride You’re sprinting for the bus. The driver spots your imploring wave and appears to be waiting, but just as catching the bus looks a real possibility, it pulls away. Why do they do that? “It’s the only pleasure […]
Cameron Duodu Letter from the North Lesotho is a place with which I have an unfulfilled date. While taking part in a BBC African service discussion with the late King Moshoeshoe of Lesotho, I discovered that apart from being nicely spoken and charming, he had almost as much a passion for democracy as I had. […]
Food: Alex Dodd Having grown up in Durban, I’ve often found Indian restaurants in other places a sorry attempt at living up to the cumulative memory I have of superbly subtle curries served by mustachioed waiters in cummerbunds. I remember the extra-hot prawn curry we’d eat on Saturday afternoons in the slightly shabby dining room […]
A loud-sounding nothing. That’s what the annual International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank meetings threatened to become as the chiefs of the global economy wound up their deliberations in Washington this week. Many developing countries and emerging economies are reeling from a world economic system gone wrong: unemployment, daily company closures and crashing currencies. […]
Waters Nick Paul Grey’s the next black and has been for some time now. The Seventies are still the Seventies, only more so. And the Blue Waters still belongs in that decade, the muted pastels of its Eighties revamp (albeit executed in the Nineties) notwithstanding. And it’s still the same place it was when Claire, […]
Belinda Beresford South Africa’s Constitution should give employees more protection against curious employers than that enjoyed by workers in countries such as the United States and the United Kingdom. But the extent of those rights to privacy entrenched in the Constitution have yet to be tested legally. Labour consultant Andrew Levy says employee privacy is […]