prisons Chief casualties of the conflict between the correctional services minister and ANC MP Carl Niehaus are prisoners, prison staff and prison reform, reports Gaye Davis AMID signs that South Africa’s jails are lurching further into crisis, President Nelson Mandela is yet again to intervene to bring together the Inkatha Freedom Party minister and the […]
Philippa Garson More people are employed in the security industry than there are policemen, and peace monitors have asked Safety and Security Minister Sydney Mufamadi to investigate links between private security companies and crime. The flourishing security industry is wide open to political or criminal abuse and must be investigated and regulated as a matter […]
Take one of the dirt roads that run off the main tar road to St Lucia into the dense undergrowth of the Dukuduku and visit one of the settlements that have been carved into the forest. It will be a salutary lesson in how the poorest of the poor in this country experience nature conservation. […]
Amichand Rajbansi, the much-pilloried leader of the Minority Front, is back in the political limelight and being hailed as a saviour, writes Ann Eveleth ‘Bengal Tiger” Amichand Rajbansi played the key role in securing KwaZulu-Natal’s Constitution last week. Walking out of the parliamentary chamber in Pietermaritzburg last Friday morning, bleary-eyed after the 24-hour negotiations which […]
The Mail & Guardian has received exclusive documents detailing IBA salary packages. Jacquie Golding-Duffy reports Chairman of the Portfolio Committee on Communications, Saci Macozoma, emphatically denied this week that a gravy train existed at the Independent Broadcasting Authority. He said his committee would not be drawn into the salary issue and would not get involved […]
After their acrimonious TV debate, legal academic Dennis Davis and Human Rights Commission head Barney Pityana had a rapprochement in the parking lot, reports Justin Pearce Dennis Davis has withdrawn his call for Barney Pityana to resign as head of the Human Rights Commission. This was one outcome of a rapprochement between the two men […]
What kind of radio and TV shows would education bureaucrats design? We’re about to find out. Barbara Ludman reports on a new plan A GRANDIOSE scheme to revolutionise educational broadcasting is in the final planning stage. Details are being fine-tuned in a multi- million-rand “partnership arrangement” between the national Department of Education and the SABC. […]
Annicia Reddiar When basketball player and rapper Shaquille O’Niel tells us that Pepsi is the “choice of the new generation”, and Natural Born Killers Juliette Lewis look-alike pulls on a pair of Levi’s in a public toilet, the common denominator is not only memorable advertisements. It also shows that we are worthy of being courted. […]
Runners hoping to win Saturday’s world cross coutry championships will have to contend with the formidable Kenyans, running as a team CROSS COUNTRY: Julian Drew IF YOU are not Kenyan and you want to win the world cross country championships, you not only need to be the best middle distance runner in the world, you […]
Bullied by defence lawyers and still loyal to many of the high-ranking accused, Malan trial witness JP Opperman is going through hell on earth in court, writes Eddie Koch THERE is a courtroom axiom that says the cross-examiner who relies on intimidation instead of intellect probably lacks the factual information to expose flaws in the […]