Aziz Pahad, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, =20 rejects the claim that his is the least effective=20 government department, reports Rehana Rossouw=20 South Africans are still extremely parochial and the=20 Department of Foreign Affairs cannot be expected to act=20 aggressively to protect human rights internationally if=20 its citizens are complacent, says Deputy Minister of=20 Foreign […]
Simon Segal reports that though fixed investment has slowed it will continue to underpin economic growth this year Growth in fixed investment slowed in the first quarter of this year. The slowdown in the growth rate of gross domestic fixed investment (GDFI) to 5,2 percent (annualised and seasonally adjusted) follows heady rises of 19,5 percent, […]
The life insurance industry’s policy of excluding HIV=20 carriers from assurance is short-sighted and=20 irrational, argues Ryan Goodman PAUL Truyens’ response to Cheryl Carolus’ criticism of=20 the life insurance industry’s policy on HIV and Aids,=20 (M&G June 15 to 22), cannot go unanswered. Truyens’ argument that the life assurance industry is=20 justified in excluding people […]
Justin Pearce Adult television viewers must decide for themselves=20 what they watch and don’t watch — and cannot expect=20 the SABC to censor itself to suit their tastes. This is=20 the essence of a judgment made by the Broadcasting=20 Complaints Commission (BCC) of South Africa concerning=20 an insert broadcast on NNTV’s youth magazine programme=20 The […]
African journalists are struggling to find a unique=20 voice in the face of Western stereotypes and diverse=20 beliefs, writes Chris Louw Kenyan journalist Charles Wachira walked around in the=20 streets of Harare last week, shaking his head in=20 disbelief. “I never knew an African state like this=20 existed,” he muttered. “Look at the roads, man. […]
Ann Eveleth Greater Durban Television (GDTV), South Africa’s first=20 regular community access television station, is up and=20 running, charting new waters in public broadcasting. GDTV is operating under a temporary licence granted to=20 a coalition of community-based video groups by the=20 Independent Broadcasting Authority. GDTV took to the airwaves last week with a range of=20 […]
Reg Rumney reports on the labour market gospel according to the World Bank A World Bank report on labour warns against the the kind of amendments the union negotiators have proposed on compulsory centralised bargaining in the draft Labour Bill. Labour is the theme of the 1995 World Development Report: Workers in an Integrating World […]
Four weeks of trauma and triumph culminated in South Africa emerging as champions, now they have to face up to that challenge, writes Jon Swift THE euphoria will take a while to evaporate into the realities of everyday life but the bitter aftertaste of Louis Luyt’s ill-timed attempts at humour will probably take a bit […]
Rugby is in the Afrikaner soul: It has De Klerk’s cunning, Boer defiance and the fury of their world cup team. Andre Brink argues that its worst traits still shape the new South Africa
Cinema: Justin Pearce Batman Forever — the third film in the sequence that began with Tim Burton’s Batman — is a comic book of a movie. This fact would not need pointing out, but for the fact that the first two in the sequence weren’t comic book movies. They were graphic novel movies. When Burton, […]