The Centre for Applied Legal Studies has produced a draft Bill on prostitution for the Department of Health, reports Rehana Rossouw South Africa’s growing sex industry offers consumers sex in books and magazines, on pornographic videos and over sex chat lines, but the law still prohibits them from buying the real thing. This anomaly should […]

SOCCER: Lungile Madywabe LIKE a child who has been burnt a number of times and=20 has vowed never to touch the fire again, Moroka=20 Swallows coach Walter Da Silva has learnt his lesson=20 well in dealing with National Soccer League teams.=20 In the space of six months he has lost two months’=20 salary because D’Alberton […]

Rehana Rossouw THE low poll in Student Representative Council elections at the University of Cape Town has divided the student body, with black students citing racism as the reason white students didn’t vote. SRC elections failed to achieve the required 25 percent poll, the first time SRC elections failed to attract enough voters to constitute […]

Rowan Callaghan Global investors rate competitive tax rates a=20 surprising fifth behind currency, political stability=20 and infrastructure on a list of criteria to evaluate=20 countries’ suitability for investment devised for Ernst=20 & Young’s Strategic Trends report.=20 A survey of 230 investors was conducted for this year’s=20 report which, for the first time, details world tax=20 […]

The “Truth and Reconciliation Commission” is now unlikely to get under way until well into next year, according to Justice Minister Dullah Omar. Omar has told the Mail & Guardian that the “process” of selecting members of the commission would begin shortly and would “hopefully” be complete by the end of December. The commission would […]

Rehana Rossouw South Africa will once again have sex police, like it did when police shone torches into bedrooms hunting people having sex across the colour line, if the draft Bill prepared by the Centre for Applied Legal Studies succeeds, a sex worker organisation warned this week. “We are going to need policemen in brothels, […]

Justin Pearce While the South African music industry sings the=20 praises of the Independent Broadcasting Authority over=20 the local-content provisions in this week’s report, the=20 film industry is wondering whether the report will make=20 any difference at all to the amount of local=20 independently produced material seen on television. Some players have welcomed the IBA’s […]

Gaye Davis KEY recommendations of a major report, proposing sweeping changes to South Africa’s unequal schooling system, will be implemented next year, ushering in a new deal for education. Education Minister Professor Sibusiso Bengu was handed the report of the Review Committee on School Organisation, Governance and Funding on Thursday. His major challenge now will […]

Ann Eveleth The pressure is on KwaZulu-Natal Attorney General Tim McNally after a Durban Supreme Court judge this week ordered investigations into senior Inkatha Freedom Party and KwaZulu Police officials. Judge Nick van der Reyden said the State had failed to disprove allegations by hit-squad accused Romeo Mbambo, Gcina Mkhize and Israel Hlongwane that they […]

The National Party found a new weapon at its weekend bosberaad — fear. Marion Edmunds reports THE spectre that looms large in National Party nightmares is a one-party state, belonging to the ANC in 1996. This fear motivates the party in its low moments, it’s a focus at bosberade and bands the members together when […]