Justin Pearce World Bank and International Monetary Fund (IMF)=20 development blueprints have been lambasted by a report=20 released by the development agency Oxfam.=20 The report says the World Bank and IMF schemes,=20 introduced in the early 1980s to promote economic=20 recovery, deepen the cycle of poverty endured by the=20 citizens of developing countries. The Oxfam […]

Eddie Koch A BUSINESS organisation, which this week promised to=20 mobilise more than 100 000 workers of all races to=20 neutralise union mass action against the labour bill,=20 collaborated in dirty tricks operations to undermine=20 the ANC and its trade union wing in 1991 and 1992 –=20 long after Nelson Mandela was released.=20 Top secret […]

A former security policeman opens his bag of dirty=20 tricks. Eddie Koch and Stefaans Brummer report THE State Security Council under former President FW de=20 Klerk created a four-year plan to undermine and weaken=20 the ANC and its allies in the build-up to the 1994=20 Details of the extensive dirty tricks plan, planned to=20 run […]

Reg Rumney So far, labour relations look calmer than they have=20 been in previous years, despite union protest action=20 over the Draft Labour Bill. Wage increases this year are likely at least to match=20 inflation of 10 to 11 percent and in some cases outpace=20 Until the Draft Labour Bill heightened tensions, labour=20 relations seemed […]

NATIONAL Party MPs gave a fresh fillip this week to=20 their long and deserved reputation for hypocrisy by=20 their demands for a referendum on capital punishment.=20 As one of the parties to South Africa’s political=20 settlement the Nats can hardly fail to be aware that=20 there is a division of constitutional powers which puts=20 the […]

Bronwen Roberts FARMERS in the Somerset East area are desperately=20 trying to get about 8 000kg of biltong ready for the=20 town’s Biltong Festival next weekend — but will this=20 be enough? Front page headlines in the local newspaper have for=20 weeks asked: “Sal daar genoeg droewors wees vir die=20 fees? (Will be there be […]

TELEVISION: Luke Alfred ALTHOUGH former Radio Rat Jonathan Handley is on the=20 other end of a telephone, one can imagine his eyes=20 lighting up at the magical sound of “pop”. The word has=20 special connotations for the man who, years ago, penned=20 that eerie local classic, Z-X Dan. For Handley, now in his 40s and […]

Sam Ramsamy is now=20 on the IOC and there is other good news for=20 Cape Town’s Olympic=20 bid, writes Julian Drew AFTER several months earlier this year when the Cape=20 Town Olympic Bid seemed to be on a kamikaze course of=20 self destruction, followed by a period of quiet=20 uncertainty, South Africa’s delegation to the […]

RUGBY: Barney Spender HE IS 24 years old, shaves his head twice a week,=20 dreams of being Pamela Anderson and has only played in=20 four tests but already All Black flanker Josh Kronfeld=20 is getting the kind of notices which would make the=20 best of Broadway producers look up in envy. This weekend, as the […]

The dream final — the single mindedness and skill of=20 the All Blacks against the ‘one team, one nation’=20 determination of South Africa=20 RUGBY: Jon Swift IT IS fitting, given the World Cup trials and=20 tribulations of Francois Pienaar’s South African side,=20 that the final hurdle should be in the form of this=20 country’s traditional […]