Soon you will be able to study to be a Nat politician, reports Marion Edmunds The National Party is setting up a political academy and its first group of 50 students begin training on August 1. While the detail of this academy is still under discussion, the shape and concept has been accepted. An NP […]
against African at UWC’ University of the Western Cape lecturers Desiree Lewis, Sean Lewis and Kole Omotoso take issue with a recent M&G article about tensions at the institution Philippa Garson’s article entitled “The big battle for ‘Bush’” (Mail & Guardian, March 1 to 7) caused a furore at the University of the Western Cape […]
Jacquie Golding-Duffy The European Union says it hopes, within the next couple of days, to reach a settlement with the Health Ministry on the R14-million Sarafina II scandal. “There have been far too many media reports on the issue and the EU hopes that it will be speedily settled and put to rest in an […]
The events of a single day may make all the difference to Lawrie Fraser’s battle for his adopted child, reports Justin Pearce The adoptive parents of the infant son of Lawrie Fraser and Adriana Naude took the child out of South Africa only a day after the adoption was secured, according to a letter submitted […]
As government reconsiders its expenditure, certain ministries will suffer cuts to their budget votes. Lynda Loxton reports As parliamentary committees started examining the 1996/97 budget votes of the various ministries this week, it was clear that the Ministry of Defence is hurting the most from the reprioritisation of government spending. South African National Defence Force […]
Family planners who still believe in the slogan ‘development is the best contraceptive’ are nuts, argues Ann Cluver Weinberg ‘BECAUSE it feels right” is no way to run a country. In the United States presidential campaign of Senator Barry Goldwater in the early 1960s, the slogan was coined: “In your heart you know he’s right.” […]
Philippa Garson A radical shake-up in tertiary education has been proposed by the National Commission on Higher Education. Chaired by Jairam Reddy, former rector of the University of Durban Westville, the commission appears to have met a wide range of needs without bowing to the specific demands of any group. It embraces a vision for […]
Rehana Rossouw RECENTLY divorced President Nelson Mandela is not in the market for a first (or should it be third?) lady. He can cope perfectly well on his own, say his staff. But bachelor presidents are the exception rather than the rule, with most heads of state relying on their wives to lend a helping […]
FINE ART: Hazel Friedman SLEAZY hotel rooms belong to the “lay now, pay later” way of life. A conflation of private and public domains, with their starched sheets and lumpy mattresses, they are imbued with an air of erotic anonymity. And to the artists of Visible Traces (at the Market’s Rembrant van Rijn Gallery) — […]
Justin Pearce SUSPICIONS of the Vorster government’s complicity in the 1977 assassination of National Party election candidate Robert Smit and his wife Jeanne-Cora hardened this week following an announcement the police have reopened their investigation into the murders. The Smits were found dead with multiple stab and bullet wounds in their rented house in Springs […]