Business is seriously starting to turn its collective=20 mind to combating crime. Reg Rumney reports There is little disagreement that combating crime is=20 the top priority in South Africa today. Barely a day=20 goes by without one business leader or another=20 identifying crime as the greatest retardant of=20 investment and barrier to prosperity. South African […]

In a second extract from his book, former security=20 police ‘dirty tricks’ expert Paul Erasmus tells how he=20 put the brakes on singer Roger Lucey’s career Whatever happened in that office God and the cops will only know. The law has ways of keeping it quiet So that nothing at all will show But at […]

Land Affairs Minister Derek Hanekom, with the aid of=20 some sharp advisers from non-government organisations,=20 has had an uncanny run of success in dealing with an=20 issue that some have called the country’s seismic fault=20 — one that threatens those who dare to cross it with=20 tremors from both the left and right. But indications […]

ATHLETICS: Julian Drew SOUTH AFRICA’S top middle distance athlete got a far=20 from ideal send off at Jan Smuts Airport last week when=20 he flew to Europe to begin his campaign in preparation=20 for August’s world championships in Sweden. Shadrack Hoff and his coach Kenny Bouwer were checking=20 in for their flight when the sister […]

Ann Eveleth Regarded as the Lion of Natal during his lifetime,=20 Harry Gwala was given the funeral of a political non- entity last Saturday. Earlier claims by the ANC leadership that 70 000 people=20 would attend rang hollow. Fewer than 20 000 people=20 attended, and the funeral was dominated by those who=20 had a deep-seated […]

Gaye Davis DEPUTY President Thabo Mbeki has pledged that a woman=20 will be first choice to fill any minister’s or deputy=20 minister’s post that becomes vacant in future. Mbeki made the commitment when addressing women from=20 NGOs countrywide, who gathered at Midrand last weekend=20 in preparation for a global forum on women, which=20 starts in […]

Andre van Zyl=20 Aircraft manufacturers’ eyes are on South African=20 Airways (SAA) as it prepares to announce details within=20 the next two months of its billion-dollar fleet=20 SAA’s Leon Els said aircraft manufacturers Airbus=20 Industrie, Boeing and McDonnell Douglas have put=20 forward written proposals for what they saw as the=20 ideal fleet composition for the […]

ONE expected fierce debate to arise out of a push from=20 the Conference of Editors to strengthen the freedom of=20 speech clause in the Constitution.=20 Editors have argued that this clause does not have the=20 level of protection of other fundamental rights, making=20 it too vulnerable to dilution in the future. In the=20 interim Bill […]

Charles Villa-Vicencio, a theologian, takes issue with=20 the pro-life lobby and pleads for a more realistic and=20 humane abortion law Right-wing Christians who once spent their energy=20 condemning religious groups for their stand against=20 apartheid, are now regrouping around the abortion=20 Some well-meaning Christians will no doubt feel=20 compelled to join their campaign. Most Christians=20 […]

Rhoda Kadalie argues that the anti-abortion arguments=20 of Christian fundamentalists are biblically unsound THE march to Parliament in the last week of May was not=20 only to protest against the exclusion of the words=20 ”Almighty God” in the final Constitution, and the=20 liberalisation of the Constitution with regard to=20 abortion, pornography and prostitution — it […]