Neil Bierbaum Independent Newspapers (formerly Argus) is struggling with its attempts to move from the afternoon to the morning market. And in an attempt to boost Business Report, the company is to introduce the four-page international weekly edition of the Wall Street Journal on Mondays. Independent Newspaper’s own survey of Business Report, conducted in the […]

Louise Flanagan THE South African National Defence Force (SANDF) has admitted destroying weapons used in the Umtata raid two years ago, in what the victim’s families have called an attempt to conceal vital evidence. Five youths aged 12 to 17, died when troops of the old South African Defence Force (SADF) attacked the Umtata home […]

Central government relies on press clippings for intelligence. ANC regional leadership is in a shambles. The IFP is torn by internal disputes. Eddie Koch reports with Paul Stober and Marion Edmonds It is a drizzling Wednesday night on Durban’s beachfront and there is a machine at the amusement park called The Octopus, which uses a […]

The All Africa Games in Zimbabwe were plagued by disorganisation but it was still an occasion for Africa to celebrate ATHLETICS: Julian Drew THE cynics said they would never take place on time, and when they did, spent most of their time whining about poor organisation and anything else they could think of to denigrate […]

Eugene Nyati, political and financial consultant, in The Mark Gevisser Profile Here’s what Eugene Nyati had to say on Newsline following the April 1994 elections: “No amount of foreign aid can be a substitute for the internal sacrifices that we ourselves have got to make in order to get South Africa to work. We have […]

Ann Eveleth Beleaguered KwaZulu-Natal Attorney-General Tim McNally met with African National Congress provincial leaders this week after calls by the party for his resignation. A joint statement released after the meeting on Wednesday between McNally and the ANC delegation, led by ANC provincial leader Jacob Zuma, said the ANC had expressed its concerns over the […]

Stephanie Dippenaar NATIONAL Party cabinet ministers Pik Botha and Dawie de Villiers appear to be on a collision course over strip mining in the Northern Province’s environmentally sensitive Madimbo corridor. While the Department of Mineral and Energy Affairs, for which Botha is the responsible minister, issued a prospecting permit to a diamond-mining company in May, […]

Best-dressed-man and choral singing competitions bring a glimpse of glamour into the lives of Jeppe’s migrant workers, writes JUSTIN PEARCE THE eastern end of Johannesburg’s central business district — the part between the escort agencies and the car-spares dealers — is not famous for its night life. Yet in the small hours of every Sunday […]

Justin Pearce The voices of the Morning Stars echo up the stairs of the fluorescent-lit warehouse in Market Street. Dressed in medical orderlies’ white coats with “MS” embroidered on the breast pocket, the Morning Stars enter in single file, and women from the audience jump up from their chairs to tag along behind the procession. […]

Ricardo Dunn A South African Police Service diversity programme — aimed at sensitising police recruits to issues of race, gender and sexual orientation — has been put on ice. The pilot programme, initiated by the SAPS career- planning department, was to have started this year. Malene De Beer, a trainer at Technikon SA, which is […]