Loet Douwes Dekker Celebrations in recent weeks commemorating the democratic elections and Workers’ Day highlighted South Africa’s work to ensure new constitutional rights take effect in practice. In the workplace, this means defining new priorities and guidelines, while taking cognisance of the implications of South Africa having rejoined the International Labour Organisation and the World […]
Krisjan Lemmer The man who gets this year’s Groot Marico public conscience award is Aboobaker Ismail. This week he went further than any other African National Congress official in owning up to responsibility for some of the horrors perpetrated by the “good guys” in the liberation struggle. Appearing before the Truth and Reconciliation Commission in […]
So what if the illusionist does trick us? Isn’t that what we want? Martyn Bedford says we must let magic keep its mystique So you’re on your way out of the concert hall, the music of one of the world’s great pianists still reverberating in your ears when someone sidles up alongside you like a […]
Stefaans Brmmer Gauteng Premier Mathole Motshekga shares a business empire with an apartheid-era military intelligence agent who was also a key backer in Motshekga’s bitterly contested campaign last year for the provincial throne. Abel Rudman’s military intelligence cover was blown in 1991 when the then Weekly Mail revealed that an anti-African National Congress newspaper he […]
If the international community wants to help Rwanda and its people in their recently declared process of reconciliation, the massive psychological impact of the genocide on the population of the country will have to taken into account. I cannot help but remember the speed with which the families of those who died in the crash […]
The food sector of the Johannesburg Stock Exchange is overcrowded, with too few companies offering shareholders significant returns on their investments. In January 1996 the food index stood at 9 300. Within a year, it had fallen 100 points, recovered its losses and remained at this level until the October 1997 market correction. Between that […]
Tangeni Amupadhi While police statistics show a decrease and a ”stabilisation” in serious crime over the past four years, a research agency has predicted criminality will increase over the next seven years. The Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC) says in the Nedcor/Institute for Security Studies (ISS) Crime Index that murder, burglary and rape could shoot […]
Mike Jensen Since the Internet depends on the quality of the underlying telecommunication infrastructure, the poor quality of the network remains a basic impediment to rapid growth in Internet use. While most African countries are extending and modernising their telecommunication networks, sub-Saharan Africa’s tele-density has stayed at less than one per 200 inhabitants. The telecommunication […]
THURSDAY, 7.00PM: THREE people were killed and one injured on Thursday afternoon in a taxi that was attacked between Libode and Umtata in Transkei, while three people were injured in a taxi-related shooting in Mamelodi near Pretoria. Three people have been arrested in connection with the Mamelodi incident. Police in Mamelodi fired teargas and stun […]
TUESDAY, 1.30PM: A REMARKABLE number of staff of the Safety and Security Ministry — including Minister Sydney Mufamadi, his driver, his private secretary, and the private secretary of his deputy minister — have all been involved in accidents while driving state-owned cars, the ministry revealed on Monday. “Good grief,” was the response of usually outspoken […]