Ian Moultrie, a private shareholder in Iscor, takes issue with ANC MP Jenny Schreiner’s comments on opposition to the proposed Saldanha Steel Project JENNY SCHREINER is reported in last week’s Mail & Guardian as saying: “It is incredibly arrogant to assume that only the bourgeoisie are concerned about the environment.” Nobody I know is making […]
SOCCER: Gerald Combrinck UMTATA Bucks boss Chain Vilikazi refers to them as the unholy three, and by Sunday there will be only two left, because one of either Sundowns or Kaizer Chiefs will be out of the Coca Cola Cup. The remaining part of the pact, Orlando Pirates, face a tough task when they visit […]
Aspasia Karras interviews Judi Priday, the managing director of newly formed Quantum Insurance Newly launched Quantum Insurance is breaking new ground in the corporate risk management industry. Not only is it the first major insurance company to appoint a woman managing director, Judi Priday (32), but it uses a different approach to combat the market […]
GOLF: Jon Swift A HUGE test awaits reigning US Open champion Ernie Els at Shinnecock Hills next week when the South African has to shake off all the momentous events of the past 12 months … and start all over again. In many ways this will be a welcome factor for Els. For, as all […]
President Nelson Mandela has been ill-advised in allowing his political opponents to score so many points around the Shell House massacre. He would have done better to clear the air around that terrible incident a long time ago. What is emerging, at least from the full eyewitness account that we carry on Page 7 was […]
Thomas Equinus was for many years the readers’ favourite anachronism, a horse-racing column for people who knew nothing about horse racing.
Frans Rautenbach argues that the new Labour Relations Bill should be scrapped THE problem with the Labour Relations Bill is that, in the best possible scenario, such a system would be a disaster for the South African economy, growth, jobs, the Reconstruction and Development Programme and everything that goes with it. The Bill is largely […]
Pat Sidley Last week’s march on Parliament by thousands of angry Christians highlights the rapid growth of fundamentalist Christian groups in South Africa, and mirrors the advance of the religious right wing in the United States. The marchers had come to protest the exclusion of the words “Almighty God” from the Constitution. But their agenda […]
Reluctant to release any of its vast tracts of land, the Defence Force is being threatened with land invasions by displaced communities, writes Eddie Koch THE South African National Defence Force has come under fire for scuttling land reform in parts of the country where the army controls large tracts of unused territory — much […]
Bafana Khumalo Native Tongue EVERYONE knows I’m a sucker, don’t they? I have been taken for a ride on more occasions than there have been marches in this country. Every Tom, Dick and Harry wants to take me for a ride whenever they see me. They know they will succeed — all they need to […]