Lynda Loxton reports on moves to make the public service more creative and efficient More than a year after the first democratic elections, South Africa’s previously mainly white civil service has started to reflect the new South Africa. But if the recently released draft white paper on the transformation of the public service is anything […]

WITH regard to your two excellent articles (M&G May 12 to18), “Abortion — A Test for Women’s Rights” and “Miscarriage of Justice”. It is estimated that over 200,000 illegal abortions are performed in South Africa each year — many of which are unsafe and even result in death. Three black women die every day due […]

ALTHOUGH many white farmers have reacted with outrage to Derek Hanekom’s new Land Reform Bill for labour tenants, the draft law is neither new nor revolutionary. It is, in fact, based on regulations that are common in free market societies, writes Andra The Land Reform (Labour Tenants) Bill, published in the Government Gazette this month […]

Lynda Loxton reports from Cape Town on the reaction to the far-reaching proposals to shake up the motor, textile and clothing industries When Trade and Industry Minister Trevor Manuel met the captains of the textile, clothing and automobile industries and unionists this week, many expected a fair amount of blood letting as these fractious industries […]

The Life Offices Associations’ Paul Truyens responds to Cheryl Carolus’ criticisms of the industry’s policy on HIV testing THE insurance industry is very aware of the whole issue surrounding Aids and the plight of HIV positive people. In order to put the industry’s dilemma into perspective though, it is necessary to go back to the […]

In the hardest game, a soft voice of seasoned humanity shines through: Eddie Futch is 83 and still punching his BOXING: Kevin Mitchell A LITTLE over a month after he accompanies Riddick Bowe to the ring for his world heavyweight title fight against Jorge Luis Gonzales in Las Vegas on June 17, Eddie Futch will […]

MPs’ criticism of the Department of Foreign Affairs has provoked an extraordinary reaction from Rusty Evans, writes Rehana Rossouw IN an unprecedented broadside by a civil servant on parliament, Foreign Affairs Director General Rusty Evans has attacked criticism of his department from MPs as an effort to “discredit and destroy the political leadership and the […]

Justin Pearce Sixty-five-year-old Koos Joubert locked horns with the mighty Anglo American Corporation — and lost. After an out-of-court settlement this week, the Eastern Transvaal farmer faces the prospect of having to destroy his own home at his own expense. Joubert owns the farm Spitskop in Steelpoort, but Anglo owns the mineral rights. The land […]

A Quena woman who was shown in Europe as a circus freak last century is to be the subject of a documentary reviving the memory of South Africa’s aboriginal people, writes Eddie Koch IN 1815 George Cuvier, surgeon general to Napoleon Bonaparte, was given the body of a Quena, or Hottentot, woman called Saartjie Baartman, […]

Rehana Rossouw CENTRAL government has intervened and promised to resolve a dispute between the South African National Defence Force and three communities who were forcibly removed from their land to make way for a battle Advocate Patekile Holomisa, chair of the parliamentary Select Committee on Land Affairs, said after a fact- finding mission to the […]