RUGBY: Jon Swift THERE has to be a realignment when this inaugural round of rugby’s new Super 12 competition is over. The programme — even for sides from the southern hemisphere’s top three countries — is just too tough. Certainly, the inconsistencies — some old, some newly raised — need to be evaluated before any […]
Ricardo Dunn THE Mail & Guardian approached 19 of South Africa’s top public companies for information about executive salaries. Of the 19, none was prepared to reveal individual packages. Some companies, like Anglo American and Rembrandt, gave aggregate figures for the board as a whole — which is a requirement of company law anyway. Most […]
The new Constitution will scrap the Senate and replace it with a National Council of Provinces, with hotlines to all nine regional governments, reports Marion Edmunds The Senate is due to be replaced by a National Council of Provinces (NCOP) with permanent and floating members — including the premiers of the nine regions who will […]
Desmond Tutu, chairman of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, in The Mark Gevisser Profile WONDERFUL! Wonderful! Wonderful! Ever since I spent time with Desmond Tutu a few weeks ago, I have caught myself, repeatedly, doing The Arch whenever something has pleased me. Head thrown back, arms extended upwards in an angelic “V”, spasms of praise […]
Ann Eveleth ANC MP Billy Nair is the next witness to take the stand in the trial of General Magnus Malan and his 19 co-accused which gets going again in the Durban Supreme Court on Monday. Nair — an ANC and South African Communist Party stalwart — was one of four targets allegedly chosen by […]
Despite equivocation by its provincial leaders, it is clear the ANC in KwaZulu-Natal is trying to delay the local government elections, reports Ann Eveleth THE African National Congress’s effective call this week to delay KwaZulu-Natal’s local government elections masks serious concerns about the outcome of the poll under current conditions. Motivating for a postponement in […]
TELEVISION: Hazel Friedman NORTHERN Oz is a land of bleak and bountiful beauty; a place where people are outnumbered by sheep by about 400 to one, and Marys — make that Sheilas — really do have little lambs; where the word “wog” still means something, and attitudes towards race, religion and sexual preference make the […]
NORTH KOREA’S unsettling manoeuvres in the Demilitarised Zone (DMZ) recall a similar performance in another East Asian tension spot. Then it was Beijing, trying to ratchet up the pressure on President Lee Teng-hui in the Taiwanese elections. Now it is Pyongyang, seeking to destabilise President Kim Young-sam ahead of Thursday’s National Assembly elections. The Chinese […]
Reforms aimed at turning Zimbabwe into Africa’s first ‘newly industrialised country’ have missed their mark, argues economist Richard Saunders IN the latest round of adjustment-related shocks in Zimbabwe, government health facilities have been brought to the brink of collapse iby funding cuts which have seen Harare hospitals asking patients’ families to supply relatives with food. […]
NGOs are playing a role that government and business cannot, so it would be foolish to allow them to die for lack of funding, argues Helmut Bertelsmann Twenty-seven years ago, when I was at university, the world was inhabited by two kinds of creatures: Afrikaners, who supported the Nats, and English, who were liberal. Each […]