Despite a Constitutional Court ruling, children are still being sentenced to whippings as punishment for petty offences, writes Annicia Reddiar WHIPPING of juvenile offenders has not stopped in all of South Africa, in spite of a Constitutional Court ban more than two months ago. And fingers are being pointed at Justice Minister Dullah Omar for […]
Competition Board chairman Pierre Brooks is sharply critical of a culture of anti-competitive behaviour in South African business, Reg Rumney reports Tougher competition policy is necessary and is on the way, promises Competition Board chairman Pierre Brooks. In an interview with Business Mail this week Brooks sharply criticised the pervasive disregard for anti- competitive behaviour […]
A non-government official used official government forms to authorise importation of toxic waste to the country, writes Eddie Koch DEPUTY Environment Minister Bantu Holomisa this week announced an independent commission will investigate the toxic waste scandal that has rocked his ministry — amid new evidence that officials from the Department of Environment Affairs were this […]
According to the as yet unreleased IBA report, the SABC will be divested of one of its channels, to be sold to private interests, reports Justin Pearce The South African Broadcasting Corporation will lose one of its three television channels at the end of 1997, to make room for South Africa’s first privately owned, free […]
Pat Sidley MICROSOFT boss Bill Gates needed a bit of help from the Salvation Army for his mega-launch of Windows 95 this week. His competitor, IBM, helped a bit too — although they would deny it. Johannesburg commuters have been greeted all week by an army of unemployed men carrying signs saying: “It’s coming …” […]
Saliem Fakir South Africa, because of its rich biodiversity, is now attracting international companies in search of plant material that has horticultural or medicinal value. Traditional healers in this country have used various plants — about 3 000 different species — for the cure or remediation of various ailments. With new developments in chemical analysis, […]
It would be nice to be able to congratulate Tito Mboweni on having produced the first truly plain- language bill of the new dispensation. The new draft of the Labour Relations Bill has been re-written, not just so as to incorporate the deals struck by labour, business and government in the National Economic, Development & […]
It has been well said that South African journalism has been reduced to a wasteland during the apartheid years — censorship and oppression driving some of its brighter talents out of the industry, or out of the country, and Bantu Education doing its best to ensure immediately succeeding generations were ill-qualified to fill the vacuum. […]
Rowan Callaghan Directors at South African Breweries (SAB) and Rainbow Chicken Limited this year lead the pack in awarding themselves increases, a survey of 26 companies by Business Mail shows. A study of the annual reports of the companies — all in the top 150 and all with financial years ending in February and March […]
CINEMA: Stanley Peskin THE Sum of Us movingly proclaims that love, in the face of the “agonising pain of it all”, is the greatest adventure of all, and that the risks entailed in loving must be undertaken. In an immensely good-natured film that explores family ties (both harmonious and discordant), the possibility of hurt and […]