The Truth and Reconciliation Commission: South Africa=20 can learn important lessons from the 15 truth=20 commissions around the world during the past two=20 Eddie Koch and Gaye Davis WHEN the Mothers of Plaza De Mayo gather at 3pm every=20 Thursday to bang pots in the centre of Buenos Aires,=20 they highlight a paradox that marks […]

Until now a secret, SA’s classification of potential=20 arms-buying countries reveals 30 blacklisted countries,=20 reports Stefaans Brummer NIGERIA, Libya, Sudan, Iraq, Yemen … These are some=20 of the 30-odd countries blacklisted by South Africa’s=20 new human rights-leaning classification of arms client=20 countries. The secret list is published by the Mail Guardian today. The classification is […]

An agreement by South Africa to store Iranian=20 crude oil has incensed environmental groups and human=20 rights advocates, reports Rehana Rossouw THE oil trade and oil money are probably the dirtiest=20 in the world, and South Africa was soiling its human=20 rights track record and possibly its environment by=20 agreeing to store Iranian oil, say […]

The battle between primary health care needs and the=20 right of the individual to expensive transplant=20 operations has forced a government policy decision on the issue, writes Pat Sidley A NATIONAL policy on transplants is being thrashed out=20 — with a draft at the moment before Minister of Health=20 Nkosazana Zuma. Talks leading to the […]

The slow pace of change at the Department of Foreign=20 Affairs has prompted Zola Skweyiya to take action,=20 writes Rehana Rossouw MINISTER of Public Service and Administration Dr Zola=20 Skweyiya this week stepped in to overhaul the=20 Department of Foreign Affairs, impatient at the pace of=20 A ministry source said Skweyiya, who met Foreign=20 Affairs […]

Eddie Koch Four lions, that were shot dead and skinned illegally=20 by a pastor of the Full Evangelical Church on a farm=20 near Hoedspruit, are at the centre of a growing row=20 over illicit hunting operations by white farmers in the=20 Northern Province. Conservation officials in Phalaborwa told the Mail Guardian they had the pastor, […]

The great white poachers of the Limpopo Valley have=20 been taken on by a lone ranger, reports Fiona Macleod Sergeant Barnard — the new commander at the Pont Drift=20 station near Alldays — has declared war against the=20 white farmers, police and conservation authorities in=20 the area who have for years been involved in poaching=20 […]

Gauteng Finance MEC Jabu Moleketi talks to Aspasia Pragmatic idealist and communist, Jabu Moleketi, Gauteng Finance and Economics MEC is a living contradiction. In the space of a year, he has evolved from an MK soldier and communist party strategist into a convincing economics planner. Moleketi himself does not see an ideological conflict. “I do […]

Eastern Cape civil servants are fighting against a=20 decision to axe about 7 000 government jobs, reports=20 Steuart Wright A SHOWDOWN is looming between the Eastern Cape=20 government, which is preparing to cut its bloated and=20 inefficient bureaucracy, and the civil servants=20 fighting to retain their posts. The province’s 155 613 civil servants were caught […]

CINEMA: Stanley Peskin FRANCO ZEFFIRELLI’S Sparrow is imitation Luchino Visconti (perhaps a homage to The Leopard) and ersatz James Ivory, in particular A Room with a View, which it resembles on a number of occasions. Sparrow is undoubtedly expensive and opulent, but ultimately it emerges as no more than a dime-a-dozen Zeffirelli film. Here is […]