Every point will be precious for Northern Transvaal and Natal in their scramble for a place in the Super 12 semi-finals RUGBY: Jon Swift TO SAY that the run-in to the semi-final stages of the Super 12 competition has reached the critical stage for both Northern Transvaal and Natal would be stating the obvious. And […]
Mungo Soggot MINERAL and Energy Affairs Minister Pik Botha wants a South African oil field deep in the heart of the old Soviet Union. He told the Mail & Guardian this week he is trying to perusade local oil companies to form a consortium to buy an oil field in Kazakhstan, one of several politically […]
Business says South Africa can ill-afford a national strike while investor sentiment is still fragile. Madeleine Wackernagel and Jacquie Golding-Duffy report As Cosatu members prepare to picket today (Friday), in advance of the first 24-hour national strike called this year, new evidence shows a significant increase in labour unrest in the first quarter. And this […]
shafts The mining industry is about to introduce a state-of-the-art health and safety sytem, reports Eddie Koch A revolutionary health and safety Bill for the mining industry — along with last week’s dramatic findings of the inquiry into the Vaal Reefs disaster — will give thousands of workers who experience some of the worst safety […]
Claims of fraud have surfaced to haunt truth commission official Hlengiwe Mkhize. Stefaans BrUmmer reports TRUTH commissioner Hlengiwe Mkhize, head of the truth body’s reparations committee, is at the centre of a storm over the “collapse” of a non-governmental organisation racked by allegations of maladministration. In February remaining staffers of the National Children and Violence […]
TELEVISION: Hazel Friedman IT doesn’t require an analyst to read between the lines of the SABC’s first public forum for discussion of the weird and wanton ways of the print media. In fact, after three episodes of this long-overdue, well-intentioned but weakly conceived programme, the cracks in Between the Lines can be measured on the […]
Laurie Nathan takes Frederik van Zyl Slabbert to task for trying to sweep our racist past under the carpet FREDERIK VAN ZYL Slabbert’s article on the Barney Pityana-Dennis Davis debate and the Professor William Makgoba crisis at Wits University was a great disappointment (April 4 to 11). Instead of offering new insights on managing racial […]
SA Justin Pearce Adriana Naude knew her baby son would be taken out of South Africa immediately after being adopted. This was revealed this week by a private social worker, Riekie van der Berg, who organised the adoption granted in February against the wishes of the child’s natural father, Lawrie Fraser. Speaking to the press […]
Home Affairs wants David Foulds to go back to Britain, but the Trade and Industry Ministry believe he is an asset to the country, writes Marion Edmunds AFTER an expensive and frustrating three-year struggle with officials, a British-born entrepreneur is taking Home Affairs Minister Mangosuthu Buthelezi to court to prevent Home Affairs from throwing him […]
Mike Loewe The most ambitious public relations stunt by a South African newspaper is degenerating into farce as two ill-prepared women climbers scramble for the top of Mount Everest. South African mountaineer Cathy O’Dowd, a Rhodes University photojournalism masters student and daughter of Anglo-American director Michael O’Dowd, will carry with her the hopes of her […]