A police colonel, an army brigadier and a top Inkatha official have been charged with the 1987 KwaMakhutha massacre. Anne Eveleth this week revisited the scene where a priest and a dozen women and children were assassinated The sun was setting over the rambling hills of KwaMakhutha, 25km south of Durban, as we navigated the […]

Justin Pearce Kathy Berman, producer of NNTV’s youth magazine programme The Works, is to conduct her own defence when the SABC appears before the Broadcasting Complaints Commission (BCC) today. The SABC has been summoned before the BCC in connection with an insert entitled Sex and Romance in the Nineties which was broadcast as part of […]

Guns and soldiers will not stop taxi violence, but proper public transport and careful regulation of the taxi industry might, argues Peter Marcuse THE deadly competition among taxi services has a cause, and it has a cure. The cause is not that suddenly taxi owners, taxi drivers, or people in their employ, have turned into […]

Reg Rumney Like decrepit old age, the end of a marriage through death or divorce is painful to contemplate, but in the long run it could be more painful not to contemplate it. That is where a booklet such as Options at Marriage, recently published by insurance giant Old Mutual, comes in. The booklet spells […]

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 three weeks to go, HUMPHREY TYLER begins the countdown to the Grahamstown Festival of the Arts RELAX. If you are going to the Standard Bank National Arts Festival next month, you won’t have to walk under step- ladders. Grahamstown will be ready for you. The staff in the Monument building no longer go to […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Reg Rumney Housing subsidies and infrastructure have the biggest chunk of allocations from the Reconstruction and Development Programme Fund — R1,4-billion out of R7,8-billion. This is revealed in Minister without Portfolio Jay Naidoo’s report to Parliament last week, Taking the RDP Forward. The document shows R1,4-billion has been allocated from the RDP Fund to boost […]