Misapprehensions and misrepresentations followed the=20 Irish Republican leader on his visit to South Africa,=20 writes David Beresford There was, it must be said, room for misunderstanding,=20 and misunderstanding there surely was as the Irish=20 Republican leader made a triumphant entry into the=20 Transvaal shanty town of Phola Park on Sunday. “I don’t know who this […]

Rehana Rossouw HYSTERIA whipped up about people pouring across South=20 Africa’s borders to steal jobs from legal citizens is=20 based on unreliable information and does not take into=20 account South Africa’s moral duty to build a strong=20 regional economy. This is the message from a high-level delegation of=20 parliamentarians and representatives of non- governmental organisations […]

FORMER security policeman Paul Erasmus has given the=20 first explanation of what happened to Mamelodi activist=20 Stanza Bopape, who disappeared without trace in 1987. Erasmus never dealt with Bopape, but he was told by two=20 of his colleagues that Bopape was beaten to death=20 during interrrogation on the 10th floor of John Vorster=20 Square in […]

Anne Eveleth Land Affairs Minister Derek Hanekom rejected reports=20 that legislation he proposed to Cabinet this week was=20 aimed at privatising tribal land rights, and said the=20 draft Bill would instead provide legal security to=20 millions of impoverished black rural South Africans=20 living on tribal land in the former homelands. Hanekom said the proposed Interim […]

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 […]

CLASSICAL MUSIC: Coenraad Visser IT was only with her last two encores, a hilarious=20 performance of Victor Herbert’s comic Art is Calling=20 for Me and a sweetly introspective rendition of a Maori=20 traditional song, that Dame Kiri Te Kanawa’s recital=20 before an overjoyed Pretoria audience came to life. Not that there wasn’t much to admire […]

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 […]

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 […]