Hazel Friedman=20 TWO-THIRDS of South Africa’s black population are=20 subject to poor health conditions. This is among=20 the startling findings of South Africa’s first=20 national household health survey.=20 A 200-page report, released by the Community Agency=20 for Social Enquiry (Case) on behalf of the Kaiser=20 Foundation this week, sketches an appalling picture=20 of continued racial […]
The Boland town of Worcester is as divided as ever.=20 But the local government elections could change all=20 of that, reports Gaye Davis=20 WORCESTER’S Durban Street once drew the line=20 between the Boland town’s white and coloured areas.=20 Now town clerk Neels de Bruyn talks about an=20 “integrated town” — with its black township,=20 Zwelethemba, […]
Dear Walter,=20 I AM in trouble. It came on Monday morning in the=20 form of a letter from Oslo. The envelope was=20 immediately recognisable, featuring heavily- embossed scenes of people being blown to pieces.=20 The Nobel people have a sense of history.=20 Inside was a note from senior management at their=20 gunpowder factory, advising that […]
The unequal racial balance in South Africa’s=20 justice system makes it quite possible that race=20 becomes a feature of South African trials as it did=20 in the OJ Simpson circus, writes Justin Pearce=20 COULD South Africa have its own version of the OJ=20 Simpson trial? The tensions that shifted the focus=20 of the Simpson case […]
Peter Vale argues the Comoros coup shows the time=20 has come for the government to expunge the=20 mercenary impulse from South African national life=20 THE proverbial fly on the foreign affairs wall must=20 have raised a wry smile when news of the Comoros=20 coup came rattling over the wire. “Hello, we’ve=20 been here before,” it […]
WAS it bought? Would a poor unemployed black man=20 have received the same verdict? Was this a triumph=20 of lawyers over justice? The questions in the wake=20 of the “not guilty” verdict in the OJ Simpson trial=20 are unending.=20 Commentators who believe the trial was hijacked by=20 the 17 lawyers on the Simpson defence team […]
Marion Edmunds=20 THE National Party has a strategy to solve this=20 coming week’s fight with the ANC over local=20 government legislation. Talk of the strategy makes=20 Nats smile, but they’re not going to show their=20 hand yet.=20 Parliament meets in a special session next week to=20 debate the Local Government Transition Amendment=20 Bill, a move […]
Head of the Occult-related Crime Unit, Colonel=20 Kobus Jonker, in The Mark Gevisser Profile=20 There’s a child’s drawing, on Colonel Kobus=20 Jonker’s pinboard, of two stick-figures with arms=20 flailing against each other in a crayon-sea of=20 bileful yellow. One figure is labelled, in=20 childlike script, “Oom Kobus”; the other is=20 labelled “Satanis”. The drawing was […]
Karen Harverson Columbus Stainless is sceptical of carbon steel producer Iscor’s R100-million plan to convert its Pretoria works into a stainless steel facility for the production of slab and black coil. “While I believe Iscor had little option but to close the operation which wasn’t efficient as a carbon steel facility, or do something different […]
Peter Vale writes that the clash between gay people=20 and President Mugabe showed that civil society can=20 play a powerful role in Southern Africa=20 WHEN Robert Mugabe savaged the common law rights of=20 gays, he may well have initiated a geological shift=20 in the regional balance of power.=20 In the wake of his comments, South […]